A reader wrote:My wife and I have been building our house for just over three years now. We moved in on Nov.30, a year ago, and at that time there wasn’t a single sheet of drywall up; all of it was in piles on the floor. The breakfast area in the kitchen didn’t have the sloped glass installed, so we ate under a blue plastic tarp that leaked when it rained…This reminded me of a rather large farming family who built a house on the prairie, near the North Dakota border (yeah, pretty desolate). I guess it was 1970 or so, about 180 miles south-east of Regina on a flat part of the flat part… not a living stick of wood for miles around… They dug a hole in the ground, and then every able-bodied family member, friend and neighbour pitched in to help lay the concrete blocks.They dug the well, built the floor and basement stairs, roughed in the plumbing, heating and electrical – and then ran out good weather and almost out of money (bad crop year). Well, says old Tom (the father), we always wanted a finished basement! So, for not too much more, they built a… Read full this story
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