Living at 101
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stone stairway
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basement renovation 2021
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street number
Sign for front of house — July – street number on side of house Sign for front by driveway — to replace municipally provided sign that had broken
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roof replaced 2020
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sunroom door handles
Old handles were an old-fashioned style that did not flow with the modern approach, and hands could get jammed while turning them. New doorknobs are modern and delightful. But, hands can still get jammed! ModKnobs July/August – sunroom french door doorknobs
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shower door handles
The … aluminum? shower door handle broke. Replacing it was more of an ordeal than one might imagine, because the screw attaching it was so deeply rusted that one couldn’t take it out.
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lightning-struck red oak taken down
June – July – August — yardwork 2020
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heat pump
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chimney rebuilt
Some of the old brick was spalling, so we had the chimney rebuilt, with an increased height to improve drafting from the fireplace. chimney – rebuilt & height increased – Domian Masonry, $6750, Sept 2019 2019/07/09 Tu – Chris Domian (domianmasonry@gmail.com) @ Domian Masonry (413-687-2866) came by; said the bricks are “spalling” — flaking — observed that it…
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basement insulation & water vapor barriers
Stemmed from MassSave – and Mass Save reimbursed a lot of this work.
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Lyndon tree work 2018
9/7 fri — TREES – tree work 2018/09/07 – Lyndon Tree. Pruning rhododendrons, taking off dead branches, chopping fallen dead trees … grinding two stumps in main front yard, chipping the debris pile … arboreal cord on japanese maple … treating hemlocks & spruces
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bat-proofing
Bat saga. 2018/08/03 fri – BATS
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