Author: Daniel

Tropical Storm Isaias took out power here last Tuesday. Today is Sunday. They say power will be restored by next Tuesday, a week after more than 900,000 customers lost power due to the high winds from the storm. So for me, while I do have a generator, it’s a very small one, just enough to … Continue reading Blackout Power

That’s Floor, Electric, Stairs, of course, and they’re what’s up in today’s report. I was just about to place the very last piece of flooring when I remembered something I started way back at the beginning – hiding little blessings in framing, underneath siding, etc. So before the floor was totally in place, there was … Continue reading FES Up

Three years ago, on July 28, 2017, this trailer was delivered. Two axles, four wheels, four corner jacks, some lights and brakes and aluminum flashing underneath. That’s it. It’s come a long way since then (pictures chosen to represent various aspects, not all of which are the very latest views in any given direction). This … Continue reading Three Years

Not just the board, but well over 200 boards. And, actually, there were no chairs involved. Lots of standing, though. Here’s how it happened. All those flooring blanks I made in the previous post? They took a pass through the router table to get an interlock feature on one edge. Here’s a close-up showing the … Continue reading Chairman of the (floor) Board

As I wait for my electrical supplies to arrive, I have a few other projects I can advance, such as the cozy loft stairs and aspects of the T.H.R.O.N.E. Room. Recall from my prior post, I made a two-step model of the stairway to test how the treads would deflect under my weight across their … Continue reading Floors and Doors

For every vision… …there is an equal and opposite revision. Today’s update is brought to you by the letters “C” for change (and conduit) and “R” for revision (and frustration). But first, let us speak of things that actually worked out okay and the first such thing is an experiment for the tansu stairway I … Continue reading Murphy’s Third Law

This weekend, I found myself out in the middle of… somewhere. What does that mean? Well, it wasn’t exactly the middle of “nowhere” — certainly there were homesteads and a few small businesses — but it was sufficiently remote to feel like “nowhere” more than a little bit. Well, okay, I did know where I … Continue reading Out In The Middle of Somewhere

There are just a few things that really scare me about this whole tiny house thing: Actually towing it down the road, ever (no matter who does the driving). This thing is likely to weigh about 10,000# and by the time it’s done will represent four years of work and rather a lot of money … Continue reading Terror 1 of 4

At this point in construction, everything depends on everything else, so it’s kind of hard to pick a single direction and go that way for a while. Instead, progress is incremental across a broad range of areas. Each one advances a little bit, then I come up against a dependency and have to move that … Continue reading Parallel Processing

Lots of little things going on right now, and some big things. First, another bit of supporting evidence for the axiom of there being two ways to do anything: right… and again. This time, it’s the pantry shelf pin holes. I don’t know why the first edition of them came out so badly – maybe … Continue reading Waste Not, Want Not