My LJ is about to become very boring.

[outsidetheparty]

We just signed a contract which will ensure that our house will be filled with carpenters, noise, and dust for the next two months. So that's all I'll be able to talk about for the foreseeable future. Hooray!

(The good news is that this job seems very much unlikely to stretch into a year-long epic, like the last one did -- the contractor even sketched out a gantt chart with target dates for each stage of construction, and all outside dependencies marked -- heck, its' better organized than most software projects I've worked on.)

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[istemi.livejournal.com]

Hooray! What's the project?

[outsidetheparty.livejournal.com]

Thought you'd never ask! :)

Our house has one of those glass-roof sunrooms -- actually, now that I think of it there's a photo online if you're curious -- which, apparently they tend to start leaking after fifteen years or so, and that's how old the house is. So it is now filled with many buckets, and the floor is changing color where water is obviously leaking underneath it through the walls. Which makes it a somewhat less pleasant place to sit than it used to be.

We tried a couple of unsuccessful repairs, but have finally given in to the inevitable and are just going to replace the whole thing. When it's done it'll (hopefully) be just as sunny as before, but with a real roof so we don't have to go through this again in 2022.

[kassrachel.livejournal.com]

Wow. Well -- tell us how this goes; ours leaks a little, too, at one end. *g*

[outsidetheparty.livejournal.com]

I think yours is in a *lot* better shape than ours, fortunately... (it'd also be a lot more difficult to replace, since it's so integral to the rest of your house.)

But we've got blueprints of the replacement if you're curious. (They still use blueprints! It seems so quaint, like a mimeograph...) It'll just be regular stick construction with a shingle roof, and as many windows as we could squeeze in -- I think it'll be really nice when it's done, but have to admit the idea of launching into a major construction job in autumn makes me more than a little nervous. (We should've started much earlier, but it took forever to get price quotes and so on for the various options we were looking at.)

[osirusbrisbane.livejournal.com]

Good luck.

[eeblet.livejournal.com]

ditto the good luck!