Home Remodeling
Planting an Apple Tree (Doch Melbi / Daughter Melbi / Дочь Мелбы)
| 10 viewsRecently I introduced my dear readers with Edward The Brush cutter, today allow me to introduce you with a new sort of an apple tree we planted in our rural house as part of home remodeling…
Burning Branches
| 8 viewsFew days ago we did the Big Spring tree and branches trimming, we were left with many piles of branches, the only reasonable solution to get rid of them - burn them. We waited for…
Edward The Brushcutter AW-BC620TH Trimmer
| 58 viewsMeet Edward, our newest team member to help us out in our home remodeling works. I first met Edward at local DEPO DIY store in Liepāja, Latvia. The sales person wanted me to buy …
The Big Spring Cleanup Part 2 - Trimming Trees and Branches
| 10 viewsAfter the successful Big Spring cleanup of territory surrounding our rural house, and after masonry works with chimney it was time to get rid of old and broken branches. Frankly speaking I…
Repairing Old Brick Chimney
| 9 viewsOn April 20, 2016 we completely changed a top of our brick chimney at our rural country house. It was not planned actually to change all top of chimney, just to add two rows of bricks. Thus …
The Big Spring Territory Cleanup
| 8 viewsFew days ago I announced start for Season 2 of our home remodeling adventures. We have some really big plans to achieve this year - like getting a water supply and constructing from scratch few…
Home Remodeling - Season 2 starts now
| 9 viewsLoyal readers of this blog are already familiar with the home renovation and remodeling process which we started a year ago, if not, make sure you check out article - How it all starts. On April 14…
Meet the New Roof (Pictures Before and After)
| 16 viewsYesterday we told Goodbye's to our old roof by setting up a large bonfire. Today we are saying hi to the new roof. Although officially major roof works were done a few days before - today is the…
Fire, Water, Burn - Goodbye Old Roof!
| 13 viewsIt was time to make a bonfire and burn wood shingle (what use to be a roof cover). At the end of Summer (2015) our bonfire place ready to be set on fire, also it was very large. I still decided…
The Roof Works are Done (Almost)
| 7 viewsThat August, 2015 day was a huge day - we finished roof covering works in our rural country house. It took us about a month as we launched roofing works, and it will take us few more days to…
Aerial photos from rooftop
| 4 viewsToday we continued covering roof with metal plates, in a short break I took my DSRL camera a top on the roof and made some aerial photos. You won't get here views as nice as you could get from…
Roof Works, Part 6 - Finishing lathing and adding first plates of metal roof
| 8 viewsToday was a big day, we managed not only to finish lathing works, covered roof with cross wind sheet but actually installed two plates of metal roof. Today was a very long working day also, by…
Unloading Few Tonnes of Sand from Loft
| 10 viewsFor a minute it seemed that all major removal, junk unloading and demolishing works are over, but then I realized we still have that soil coving floor in loft. And I'm speaking of some 25 cm thick…
Pruning trees and shrubs
| 12 viewsOne of my biggest challenges last summer was unstoppable fight with grass (see: Lawn Mowing), not to mention larger scale works on roof replacement. But there was another major issue we faced -…
Roof Works, Part 5 - And once more let's remove old roofing
| 8 viewsThink roof works are cool? In fact - roofing is one of the hardest works in construction and if you have decided by your own to replace your old roofing - think again! Anyway - let…