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Wednesday Weekly Update 9/30/15

Rain, Rain Go Away It has been raining here A LOT.  The weather has held us up on all projects on the House house remodel. As mentioned in last week’s update the steel beam has been set. The guys will be building a temporary support wall to hold up the existing roof over the first floor so what remains of the house won’t cave in. The roof trusses have been delivered and demo has begun on the roof.  Once the roof…

Wednesday Weekly Update – 9/23/15

I’ve had a busy week.  My Wednesday update this week is almost a Thursday update. Oops.  Better late than never, right?  Check out all my past updates here. The latest happenings at the House house… More progress this week on our house remodel.  The windows places are almost all completely cut out and ready for actual windows!  Yippee!  Here will be our bay window in the front of the house.  Looks terrible now but will be beautiful when it is installed!…

Wednesday Weekly Update – 9/9/15

More progress on our house remodel! If you missed the last few updates, you can read them here and here. This will be a short work week due to Labor Day, but the guys are crankin’ along. It doesn’t look a whole lot different from last week but we are getting there.  Electrical wiring was installed in these soon-to-be-walls, and the top part of the framing (according to google these are called the double top plates, I think) are on and almost…

Welcome to ‘the House house’!

Hi, I’m Jodi House. I’ve always wanted to start a blog and I’ve always wanted to remodel a house and now I am doing BOTH.  Yay me! It only seemed fitting to name my blog ‘the House house’ since our name is House and we are remodeling a house.  Get it?   🙂 Here’s my story… My husband, our 2 young boys and I moved to Naples, FL from Massachusetts over 5 years ago.  We spent…