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Entries from June 2008

Parliament Lumber’s service is disappointing

June 23rd, 2008 · 5 Comments

We’ve been using Parliament Lumber for the majority of our deck material. About 5-6 weeks ago I placed a custom cedar order with them. We needed 90 pieces of 1×4×14 pieces of cedar to complete the walls and to clad the planter boxes. Unfortunately this size is not standard so a custom […]

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Tags: backyard · deck

More demolition work on the second floor kitchen

June 22nd, 2008 · 4 Comments

In one of our last posts I talked about how we were about to undertake renovating the old second floor kitchen. I mentioned how we wanted to simply put 1/4 inch drywall over all of the lathe and plaster to avoid a lot of the work and expense.

Leon K who is a loyal reader […]

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Tags: Demolition

Cedar update and the first steak on the bbq

June 6th, 2008 · 6 Comments

We received some bad news today. The cedar that we’d been expecting (1×4×14) to finish the walls and the planter box has been delayed by two weeks. Oh well not the end of the world but disappointing nonetheless. Ben and I were going to put it up tomorrow but we’ll have to […]

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Tags: bbq · backyard · deck