February 6, 2012 – 10:38 am
I was at our porch project by the Ole Store this morning conducting the final inspection with the City Inspector. Everything was fine and was passed so we are wrapped up until spring painting can take place. As part of our work we reused the existing porch columns, adding interior reinforcement as required. That [...]
January 12, 2012 – 2:42 pm
We’ve just about finished up our porch project across the street from the Ole Store. I think the new porch really looks great. We used a hip roof on the main roof area to keep the profile on the sides low. Over the front steps we used a small gable roof so rain won’t fall [...]
October 27, 2011 – 7:03 am
From Deadwood we traveled to Rapid City. What a lovely city! It has a nice downtown are that is vibrant and full of shops, restaurants and all sorts of venues. There are many historic buildings in this city too. They vary from Italianette architecture to basic, solid 1920′s brick storefronts, to more contemporary buildings. I [...]
October 24, 2011 – 5:59 am
Ellen and I took a few days vacation last week and headed to our neighbor to the west, South Dakota. We had not done much ‘exploring’ in that state, mainly just passing through it on the way to somewher else. This time we wanted to visit and see parts of the state. Our first visit [...]
September 19, 2011 – 5:58 am
Over the weekend Ellen and I were in St. Cloud for a wedding. This was the second wedding event in St. Cloud for us in three months. The reception was held at the civic center which is a really nice facility. It sits on the banks of the Mississippi River and has wonderful views of the [...]
The demolition work on our rural whole house remodeling project has been completed. It involved the removal of the existing kitchen, two bathrooms, interior doors, trims, flooring, etc. We also removed a large portion of the front deck. Under the wood deck we found the original concrete steps and sidewallk. We are now removing that concrete [...]
I was out of the office last week on a fishing trip to Northern Minnesota. I went with three of my high school friends, which we have done on an annual basis for some time. We had a great time fishing, chatting and generally relaxing. The weather was good and we even caught some nice [...]
Monday we started a basement water control project for a client in Northfield. They have had significant water intrusion problems off and on and contacted me about creating a solution. Like many homes built in the 1950′s and 1960′s this home has a concrete masonry block foundation, sitting on concrete footings. I don’t know for [...]
On Monday we started work on a great new project in downtown Northfield. We are remodeling the former bank building at 25 Bridge Square into office space for Neuger Communications. Neuger Communications is a marketing public relations firm that has operated in Northfield for some years, and outgrew their current location. The bank building was constructed [...]
