I really hoped that I wouldn’t have to report on another house-vs.-water bout (Rounds One and Two having been decided in my favor), but the Forces of Nature had other ideas. Was the third time going to follow suit, or was the tide – no pun intended – turning? This bout took place in February…
I’m sure you’ve heard the advice sometimes offered up in times of stress: “You’ll laugh about this, one day.” Well, after about six years living in my current house (a/k/a The Money Pit), I may be just about ready to reach that point. They say that writing is cathartic, so here’s another of my occasional…
Believe it or not, I’ve always thought that the purpose of a garage is to give an automobile (or two) a place to live. Apparently, I’m in the minority nowadays because it seems most garages are now used for pretty much anything but that! I’ve also been fortunate that my first four houses all had…
If I ever had any notion that the basement/dampness problem was forever solved by the work done and described in House vs. Water, Round One, it was effectively dispelled less than two months later (January 2019) when follow-up infrared scans revealed underground water contact that had not been detected before. This time it was along…
The embarrassingly long stretch of time between new posts recently has been a result of the arrival of spring weather and its attendant garden chores, but also to a series of “events” at The Money Pit. I’m not quite sure how to describe them other than to say that it’s been less like being nibbled…
It all began with a slightly odd smell inside a cabinet. When I moved into The Money Pit in 2014 one of the first things I did was to clean the kitchen cabinets inside and out. There’s a bottom corner cabinet at one end with the electric induction range adjacent to it at a right…
It’s amazing what surprises Mother Earth (and I mean that literally this time) can spring on us at times. And it’s also amazing how often ‘experts’ can be not quite so expert. Herewith follows the story of the recent Big Dig (with apologies to Boston) here at The Money Pit. I may have mentioned in…
The Chatsworth Lady 