Thumb and Hammer Blog

Finally! We are no longer bogged down by dial-up.
Even with the hammer drill and brand new bits it took a couple of hours to drill all the necessary holes in the brick to mount the outdoor modem and run the wires into the house. A royal pain in the butt. But it’s [...]

It’s been over a year and a half since we had a site survey to determine if we could receive the signal for fixed point wireless Internet access.  While we were unable to receive a signal we were told that new tower was going to be erected in an area that would be certain [...]

I called a company that does foundation work and waterproofing and despite being unimpressed with their professionalism, I was pretty satisfied with what they told me. I was looking for an opinion and price on my options for waterproofing. I also wanted to have an idea how much it would cost to re-build [...]

Five months ago, virtually all work on the house stopped once I figured out the disparity between managing our debt and eliminating it. I decided at that point. after adding a major plumbing bill for our hot water heating system update that I wanted to focus on debt elimination, meaning that any further work [...]