Welcome!

I will be documenting the construction of our pole barn home. We decided to build because we had been in the same mobile home for many years. The main reason I started this blog was to help others. When we first started out, we looked for information to help "Do It Yourself" people such as us but didn't find much on the web. With the exception of the concrete foundation work and enclosing the structure, we are doing all the work ourselves. But we have been blessed with family members and friends who have helped us a great deal. We broke ground in July 2006 and we moved in October 2007. If you want to read more about the details of our plans, click here.
Think of this site as a diary of DIY home construction.


Update January 2009:
Hi friends, I had made my blog private for some time but have decided to open it back up again. I was way too busy with other things. I am happy to report we have moved in but still have much to do to complete things. There is still trim to put up, some grouting to do, a few more floors to finish but more on this later. I am in the process of redoing this blog and just wanted to thank everyone for visiting :)

September 19, 2007

Ceramic tile for the living room

Well, we had some problems with our brown bag floors in the living room. Seems that after I had finished them, they got wrinkles in them. This happened with our son's room as well. The only thing we can figure is that it had something to do with temperature/humidity. We decided to take all of it up with scrapers and lay ceramic tile in its place. This has been hard work but it had to be done. We were going to sand down the bag flooring and add the tile over it but were afraid we might run into a problem down the road if we didn't get the bag flooring up and start with clean concrete. The poly and paper was not easy to get up but a scraper I found at Lowe's with a extending handle and 4 inch straight blade helped tremendously. We were able to get underneath all that poly and paper and get most of it up. Today I'm going to spend the day in knee pads scrubbing up all the remaining paper. I will take a picture of this process and also of our new ceramic tile.

No comments: