Hardin Home: Home Improvement Projects at a Country Home in Verona, WI
Home Improvement Projects at a Country Home in Verona, WI
The last step before interior framing was to repair the drywall in the guest house that was cut from the electrical work, including the ceiling drywall. It was a pretty straightforward process that I’ve done numerous times before, and I was able to do it seamlessly so that you can’t tell that the drywall had … Continue reading Guest House Drywall Repair
It’s been a busy month of travel, Badger games, and watching Arsenal, so I haven’t had as much time on weekends as I’d normally have to make progress on this project, but it is still moving forward. I have completed the electrical work that needed to be done in the original outer wall of the … Continue reading Guest House Bathroom Electrical Work
Over the past two weeks, a lot of progress has been made on the guest house bathroom. Most noticeably, the door between the living room in the guest house and the bathroom was put in, which involved cutting through the wall to create the rough opening for the door. Also, I built a methane vent … Continue reading More Guest House Bathroom Progress
After the utility room plumbing was done, my next step on the guest house bathroom project was to pour concrete to replace the concrete that had been removed when the drain pipes were put in. I used 1,280 pounds of Quikrete Crack Resistant concrete, which is purpose built for pouring slabs like garage floors. Since … Continue reading Pouring Concrete
Before pouring concrete and framing the walls for the guest house bathroom and utility room, I needed to determine the location of the shower. This determines where the walls will go, since the shower needs to be up against the bathroom walls, and its location is determined by where the drain pipes were placed. Therefore, … Continue reading Guest House Bathroom Shower
Today I installed a water heater in the guest house, the second to last utility room appliance to be installed before the water heater. Since the only major plumbing in the guest house is going to be a bathroom, a fairly small water softener with a built in brine tank (versus a separate tank) was … Continue reading Guest House Water Softener
After the second outdoor plumbing fiasco of the summer, the lake house well (and all associated pipes) are back in working order thanks to the hard work from Eckmayer Plumbing. Here are the final results after the excavators put everything back together and repaired the path leading up to the parking area: That’s about it … Continue reading Lake House Well
As the final part of our HVAC repairs at the house in Verona, we had a new furnace put in since the old furnace had been measured at 15 ppm of carbon monoxide (which is bad). We have now replaced literally every appliance in the house since buying it four and a half years ago, … Continue reading New Basement Furnace
The primary purpose of building the Hardin Access Pipeline was to allow me to build a bathroom in the guest house. Before doing the framing work for the bathroom and the utility room (which will hold the water filter, softener, and heater, among other things) I am doing some initial plumbing work. My first step … Continue reading New Project: Guest House Bathroom
At long last, we finally have a dock. It took months of work for the dock installation company, Deano Docks, to get the dock designed and fabricated, but it finally has arrived. It’s a floating dock, so it attaches to the stairs via a hinge and is able to move up and down with the … Continue reading We Finally Have a Dock!
