Well, I made it back. I’ve actually been home now for a couple months. I wanted to post sooner, but there’s always lots to catch up on, and then when I’ve had free time, I would forget to post!
Anyway, even though the trip was full of good beer, friends, and a super nice house to get to work on, it’s good to be home!
After months of working 60 hour weeks in the heat of summer, sleeping in a camper on a bed that’s too short for me, and showering outside, we’ll just say it was starting to catch up with me.
So much for a 6 week project huh? For the record, I didn’t come up with that number. That’s how long the homeowner told me the project would take…
But that’s beside the point. It was a very cool project to be a part of. Lots of really nice wood work, some 20′ tall walls, I got to help build a wood frame dome, and there were even copper gutters! How cool is that? Oh what, you’ve never seen a copper gutter before? Neither had I…
The house is designed with the gutters to be built in and hidden by a decorative detail that will wrap around the perimeter of the house. The idea behind the copper gutters is that they should last virtually forever. Really it’s a smart decision, just one that’s out of my income bracket =)
I’m thinking I’ll try and put together a week by week series showing the progress as we went along.
Stay tuned…