Monthly Archives: November 2016

Today’s post is a bit frivolous: I took a number of shots of students at work, and rather than enumerating all the things we are doing, I’ll let the photos speak for themselves. After all, do not pictures speak a … Continue reading →

Latest updates: -The exterior finishing is progressing, and the House is looking good! The electrical wiring is ongoing: …and we are working on placing the second layer of plywood for the ceramic floors in the kitchens and bathrooms: …and there … Continue reading →

We have been making progress on some of the details….the Units are beginning to look a little closer to a home! The siding was brought into the shop to warm up and dry out from the snow: We have decided … Continue reading →

Please check out the latest Our House video: Episode 14! If we are able to deliver the homes to the site on December 13th and 14th as planned, there is lots of work left to do: we have to complete … Continue reading →

We are staring to move into the the finishing details of the construction phase of the Our House project. We know that there will be a lot of actual finishing to do on the site once the home are delivered … Continue reading →

Throughout Our House project, I have been constantly dealing with the topic of radon. This past weekend, the Gazette featured a “Holmes on Homes” article on radon and radon remediation. (The Gazette has a useless search feature and I cannot … Continue reading →

Originally posted on hyphenated:
Tuesday night still feels like a bad dream. I still feel slightly nauseous whenever I think about the reality of President Trump come January 20. Like many of my friends and coworkers, I’m disheartened, angry, and…

One of the surprising benefits of the Our House project is the connections that are made between the various “communities” that we as a Centre belong to. By communities, I mean more than the community of Ormstown where we are … Continue reading →

We have been fortunate to have a couple of sunny, warm, windless this week, and so have decided to tackle the damaged roof on the 1st module. See: Disaster Strikes We assigned a couple of teachers and a team of … Continue reading →

We have moved to a different phase of the construction on the Our House. The major rough construction is finished, the windows are in (mostly, except for the ones that I have to verify and correct…sigh), the air barrier is … Continue reading →