Hardin Home: Home Improvement Projects at a Country Home in Verona, WI
Home Improvement Projects at a Country Home in Verona, WI
I’ve started digging the trenches required for my project to run water to the guest house. The first step has been to hand excavate sensitive areas that I can’t use a powered trencher to dig, primarily around the propane lines that carry LP from the tank to the main house and the guest house, and … Continue reading Excavation Progress
I’ve started my project to add running water to the guest house. After getting the propane and electrical lines marked, my first step was to purchase the required PVC pipes (3/4″ inch for the supply lines, 3″ inch for the waste water to the septic system) and to lay them out on the ground under … Continue reading The Hardin Access Pipeline
I took a break from landscaping work a couple of days ago to do some electrical work in one of my house’s bathrooms, which is theoretically a guest bathroom but is primarily used by the cats. When I was doing that, I noticed that the toilet’s water intake regulator was leaking, causing the toilet to … Continue reading Toilet Repair
As I noted in a previous post, one of my larger projects this spring/summer will be running water for the guest house. My first step was working with Digger’s Hotline and with the company that supplies my liquid propane (Consumers Coop in Sauk City) to mark the underground electrical and propane lines: After that, I called … Continue reading Beginning Research: Guest House Plumbing
Continuing the past projects series is a project from the winter of 2015. Our house has five bathrooms: three on the top floor, one on the middle floor, and one in the basement. The master bathroom is very nice, the basement and the guest bedroom bathrooms are fine, and the bathroom in my office is … Continue reading Bathroom Remodel
This summer, I’m planning on running water lines from the main house to the guest house, and connecting drain lines from the guest house to the septic system on our land. This will enable me to have a water heater installed (I’ll have a professional do this, since it involves working hooking up liquid propane … Continue reading Summer Project: Guest House Running Water
Last winter, I remodeled the bathroom off of our kitchen. It originally had a lot of fairly tacky 1990’s style gold fixtures in it, like this: The end result turned out pretty well, and definitely as a different look from the original: However, I didn’t get around to installing a door on the shower, and … Continue reading Shower Door
A year ago, I did a full remodel of the bathroom off of our kitchen, on the middle floor of our house. It went from looking like this: To this: This year, I wanted to improve and modernize the look of our four other bathrooms, without doing a full remodel. These bathrooms had been repainted … Continue reading Upgrading Tacky 90’s Bathroom Fixtures
