Our tenant’s car insurance company have agreed to pay for a new garage door from the Door Doctor Continue reading →

  Claire and I heard a loud bang and felt the house shake. Our tenant parked his minivan in our driveway to unload his groceries and then crashed in to our garage door instead of reversing. The door no longer closes. Continue reading →

Time to scrape and paint the wrought iron stairs. Continue reading →

Last week we bought a new central vac at the Salon d’habitation. Our old one worked well enough but sounded like a Boeing 747 taking off. The installation was a bit tricky. We had to drill into the concrete garage wall and extend the existing tubing. We can now vacuum without disturbing the whole neighbourhood Continue reading →

Our tenant moved out and it seemed like her kids had a food fight in every room. Everything had to be repainted Continue reading →

It was our bad luck the Spring 2011 was very rainy. We had to wait 3 weeks before our roofer could replace the roof Continue reading →

Two weeks before Christmas and the roof is leaking! There’s a hole in the flashing and an ice jam has caused a water build up. Continue reading →

We finally got a slate cap for what’s left of the chimney. The cost was split with our neighbour Continue reading →

Technobrique came back to lay bricks to the area left bare by the demolished chimney. Now buildings are seamless. Continue reading →

Our neighbours are redoing the brickwork on their house, so we suggested that we demolish the old unused chimneys between the 2 houses. Continue reading →