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20. I’m back, thanks for your patience!
Lots has happened since my last post. Needless to say for those of you that know us personally, December thru March were very involved with family matters and posting on the blog was the last thing on my mind. Now, back to the house! I last posted when the floor had just been put in […]
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16. New deck started outside, drywall inside & finally a roof…
Bob removed the old deck by Friday evening, 9/20. Looks so open without the deck! The following week (9/23 – 9/27), Larry and Elder came back to help Bob with the supports and main framework of the deck. The support beams were about 400 pounds so they rented a machine called a ‘super lift’ to […]
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4. Approval & tree cutting
As I said the paperwork started in February. By mid May the final plans were submitted to the Town of Truckee for permits. To our dismay, they said it would be at least 3 weeks before the earliest approval. With the July 4th holiday looming our start date of June 22 was not looking good. […]
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3. Empty/Tear out…
Now, here is where I say ‘we’ but you all know that the real work is done by Bob. I help as much as I can but Bob is the real doer and scheduler! First we had to empty main floor area (the kitchen, living room, dining room and bedroom). Then we emptied and consolidated […]
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2. Scope Decisions…
We decided to do all the major items we wanted done: New metal roof Add a 3rd car garage space for a workshop Extend the deck over the new workshop space Add windows and sky lights (3) to bring more light into the kitchen, dining and living rooms Put in natural gas lines to the […]
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1. A snowy day in February…
It was a rare snowy February day in 2013 when we went to Steve Miller’s office, a Structural Engineer in Truckee, CA. We took in the original and our modified blue prints for the Fuxagufer West. We wanted to remove the walls between the kitchen and dining areas and a large passive solar atrium that […]
Henry's Foxhole "aka Fuxagufer West" 