by Alison Moore Smith | Jun 2, 2010 | for Home
Today our culinary water line was connected. Big trench in the front yard, new cover, hole in the cold storage side wall. Unfortunately the water meter cover is pretty much dead center in the front yard. Hopefully with the placement of the walk and plantings it won't...
by Alison Moore Smith | May 12, 2010 | for Home
The rebate system for energy-efficient improvements is a baffling array of governmental nonsense. No surprise there. If you do exactly what the EPA tells you to do, when they tell you to do it, while living where they want you to live — and presumably with the...
by Alison Moore Smith | Apr 21, 2010 | for Home
Five guys with hardhats from Tempest arrived on the scene this morning to install the gas line. The line goes into the basement wall in the hall near the laundry room. We paid to have the gas line installed some weeks ago.
by Alison Moore Smith | Feb 22, 2010 | for Home
Disclaimer: there is no such thing. Now that we've gotten that out of the way, let me share my satellite/cable experience of the past few years. The major contenders in my area are DIRECT TV and Dish Network (both satellite providers), Utopia (fiber optic broadband),...
by Alison Moore Smith | Feb 11, 2010 | Design Your Own House, for Home, for Money
The man from Questar dropped by and consulted with us about line and meter location. We'll be placing it in between the laundry room wall and the hall wall in the basement. The listed appliances with accompanying BTUs: 1 boiler: 178,000 1 barbecue: 20,000 1 dryer:...
