Saturday Morning Home Repair blogging 2.39

Good morning. The shop is open, coffee is on;  Spring is fully sprung here on the high desert and my world out here has turned green.  The huge ancient cottonwoods, last to emerge from dormancy are putting out their first leaves, following the  invader Asian elms and olives and the poplars.

On my own place here, I have had a small crew doing a mud plaster job on my outbuildings: shop, wellhouse and chickencoop, and this weekend I hope to get the door and the window in to the East wall so the plaster can be trimmed out around them.  We mix the mud from local soils, and it costs me, at local rates, about 50  cents a Sq Ft for the labor to trowel it on the walls, both adobe and straw bales.

As usual, we gather to discuss home repairs and improvements, having found that with a little advice and encouragement, many tasks are within the capabilities of the average (?) Kossak.

Our dedicated ad hoc cadre of construction professionals and gifted amateurs may have just the info and advice you need to avoid having to hire us; a good thing, as qualified construction professionals don't come cheap and they don't learn what they know in schools.

Show us YOUR project and we'll applaud.  Got a leaky faucet or stopped up drain? YOU can probably fix it yourself, with a little (online) help from your friends.

Welcome aboard.