http://WWW.craigsirk.com/ en-us 2008-06-24T16:52:08+00:00 http://WWW.craigsirk.com/Craigsirk/archives/000587.html I was coming home yesterday and there was the awesome rainbow at the Pentagon bus depo. Well actually there were two. You could see the whole rainbow, from where it touched on one end over the full arch to where... Craig 2008-06-24T16:52:08+00:00 http://WWW.craigsirk.com/Craigsirk/archives/000586.html I am still de-grouting the wall. I am about 75% done with the down stairs wall. That's all.... House Hunt Craig 2008-06-24T16:48:25+00:00 http://WWW.craigsirk.com/Craigsirk/archives/000585.html Just working to de-grout the wall. I have about 1/3 of the downstairs wall done, so I am getting there. Hopefully I will be ready to repair the wall this weekend. Then it is on to the upstairs wall! yay... House Hunt Craig 2008-06-19T18:22:15+00:00 http://WWW.craigsirk.com/Craigsirk/archives/000583.html YAY! Wall is cleared. I took a few hours today and finished all the plaster. You can see the pile of plaster that I took off. I have also sprained my pinky finger quite good. I don't know why because... House Hunt Craig 2008-06-16T16:32:41+00:00 http://WWW.craigsirk.com/Craigsirk/archives/000582.html Back to work. I did make a good break through today (albeit it was in the last 40 mins or so). I found out (by smashing my thumb really hard) that if you just hit the plaster with the hammer,... House Hunt Craig 2008-06-13T16:26:17+00:00 http://WWW.craigsirk.com/Craigsirk/archives/000581.html Holy crapper, it was hot. I got a bit off today. It was not as easy as before but I was also working on the upper part of the wall a bit (it is much harder to swing a hammer... House Hunt Craig 2008-06-10T15:05:33+00:00 http://WWW.craigsirk.com/Craigsirk/archives/000580.html Because we had a heat advisory this weekend (and into this week) we went tubing. The temp was about 100 deg. It was great fun lazying down the river, drinking a lot of beer. Between the 6 of us, we... Craig 2008-06-08T18:15:21+00:00 http://WWW.craigsirk.com/Craigsirk/archives/000579.html Well, I tried a SDS drill, it is kinda this chisel bit. It did jack. Nothing. It was more work than the hammer. Anyway, I don't know if all the water from the power washing, or the heat, or if... House Hunt Craig 2008-06-06T18:12:07+00:00 http://WWW.craigsirk.com/Craigsirk/archives/000578.html Ok, so here are some pictures from Day Four. It was too dark to take pictures when I was finished so I took some after. This is the amount of the wall I competed. Ya, not a lot. You can... House Hunt Craig 2008-06-06T18:08:42+00:00 http://WWW.craigsirk.com/Craigsirk/archives/000576.html Wow, I started trying to remove the plaster from our brick wall. It is like chipping through concrete. I spent about 3 hours with a hammer and cold chisel and cleared about a 10 ft square area of the wall.... House Hunt Craig 2008-06-05T19:42:08+00:00 http://WWW.craigsirk.com/Craigsirk/archives/000575.html Not much happened over the weekend. I had a regional poker tournament on Saturday so I did not do anything on the House. I did come in 5th out of about 100 tho, so that was good. Sunday, Day Three,... House Hunt Craig 2008-06-02T20:20:14+00:00 http://WWW.craigsirk.com/Craigsirk/archives/000574.html Back at cleaning for day two. I got most of the back yard clean, but I actually ran out of trash bags so I could not finish it. I guess it will have to wait till Day Three. The back... House Hunt Craig 2008-05-30T13:55:06+00:00 http://WWW.craigsirk.com/Craigsirk/archives/000573.html Ok, so Day One on our house remodeling. The next few days are going to be clean up. As you can see by the few pics I have already uploaded, there is a lot to get ride of. Remember the... House Hunt Craig 2008-05-29T20:44:16+00:00 http://WWW.craigsirk.com/Craigsirk/archives/000572.html We finally closed on our house. It was a stressful couple of weeks there. We thought we lost it because of our mortgage guy. It is apparently very hard to get a construction loan. Anyway, here are a couple more... Craig 2008-05-29T15:48:58+00:00 http://WWW.craigsirk.com/Craigsirk/archives/000566.html We have it limited to three contractors (possible four) for our house renovation. We have: The Jenson Brothers (Did some work for a partner) Willy Arroyo (The husband of a co-worker of Kristen) P and P builders (Just got them... House Hunt Craig 2008-04-11T21:10:13+00:00