Thumb and Hammer Blog

A weekend project finished in less than a week….I do believe that is a new record for me. I put up the last couple of pieces and the two light panels on Monday. This is probably the first project I have ever done where I made absolutely no errors in measurement whatsoever. [...]

For anyone else, it would be a Saturday project. But for me….well, I managed to drag a Saturday or weekend project out over several days, and I am still not done! Things are looking up, though (no pun intended). I just have a couple more pieces to go, along with the clear [...]

Today, I finally insulated the skylight tunnels, something that should have been done in June 2003 when the roof was re-shingled and the skylights removed. I nailed up some 1×2’s around the openings, added some insulation and stapled up some vapor barrier. I wanted to get more accomplished today, but I only worked [...]

Just once I’d like to make a Home Depot run and spend less money than anticipated. It seems that no matter the size of the project, I always spend double my original estimate. Materials have definitely gone up in price in the five years since I installed the suspended ceiling in the basement [...]

A 22 pound turkey for three people, a minor fire thanks to a hole in the roasting pan, the overhead light fixture going kaput just before Christmas and about 4000 km of driving…. That’s our holidays in a nutshell. Now that the holidays are over, we can finally get back to the business [...]