Finding someone willing and able to put a good roof on an old house in the middle of nowhere can be a real challenge. Fortunately, Exploits has several skilled contractors able to handle such jobs and we were lucky enough to convince Dirk Muir to give us a hand. With a new roof, new paint…
Category: construction
A Carbonear Root Cellar
For various professional reasons, John and I took a meander out to Carbonear and Harbour Grace today. He needed to stop in and chat with a fellow named Bern Fitzpatrick and I tagged along, not entirely sure what the day might hold. As we left Harbour Grace and rode over the hill into Carbonear, we…
Finding wings in a pot of glue
It’s funny how you can chug merrily along in life for years, doing things that are either just within or on the edges of you comfort zone and never realizing what you miss by jumping outside it. One of my parameters of comfort has always been breaking the house. I do not like even the…
So nice I thought of framing it….
I built my first solo wall yesterday morning. I’ve built walls before with someone, but this is the first one I’ve built with a window in it and also the first one I’ve designed and built entirely on my own. I am a little in awe (okay, it’s more like Hero-Worship, really) of The Amazing…
Raising the Bar Strength & Conditioning 