Pond Boss Forums GENERAL QUESTIONS Property Projects & Construction My new home place.

The erosion control mats showed up today.

Looks good. Where did you get them? Locally?

Beaux, I got them from American Excelsior from the Dallas Texas area and had them shipped in. I couldn't find anything local in 8 foot wide.

Cool, thanks... Just curious, I'm sure I'll be needing some as well.

Well we are moving right along THANK GOD.LOL The shower got some glass yesterday.

What company did you get the shower glass from? We need to buy two for our remodel.

I am not sure the name of the door company. It was ordered by the people building the house but i will see if i can get the info.

I've seen several different companies, with varying prices, but we want that frameless look. I probably should have spec'd their inclusion as well at the outset of the remodel...oh well, lessons learned.

The new project manager is trying to find out about the shower door but the old project manager is not returning his calls. Go figure LOL

They got the cabinet problem fixed so now we are waiting on the granite people to come out and finish the few last pieces.I have been building some fence while waiting i just need to finish the bottom trim board and this one side will be finished.I am gonna build a little house for the well.

Dang, you guys can get away with having a bladder tank and well pipe above ground. It'd freeze solid up here during the winter!! We start to panic and make sure everything is drained once temps start to drop below 30°F at night.......

Yeah i am in south Louisiana so we don't get extreme low temps. We may see low 30's at night but not much lower than that. I will build a house around it and put a heating blanket on it during the winter just in case we do get some freezing.

If the "house" is insulated just close up the vents with 1" foamboard and turn on a 60 watt lightbulb. That should be enough to keep it from freezing. That's all we did when I lived in So. Cal when we had temps at night below freezing and we had to drape material over the orange and grapefruit trees. A 60 watt lightbulb (incandescent of course) was all that was needed to keep them from getting frost bit, and we had some nights in the lower 20's. The one night we hit 17, even with the Remay Cloth and the light some got hit lightly.

You gonna put any stain or urethane, varathane, etc. on the fence?

I am just gonna let it age.

put a few redfish or speckled trout in your pond..Im sure you have access to lots of them around you....LOL

LOL Bobby I wish i could stock reds and specks.

I had some geese show up this morning.

Well the project is winding down they finally got the new granite in and its right they will finish up the tile today. Painters have to come back and do a final touch up, we got satellite internet installed yesterday. The floor guy has one more coat of sealer on the floor then were done and ready to move in. Hopefully 2 more weeks and that's it.

let me know how that works out
that may be my only choice for internet

I had hughes net about 8-9 years ago and it was slow compared to this satellite service(excede). I haven't ran a speed test yet but they claim 12M download speeds. You just have to watch your use because you only get so many GIGS per month depending on what plan you choose. Here is a pic of the master bath granite and tile.

very nice wicked...
it's been great watching your project progress

I have dish (Hughes Net) and it works fine. I only pay of the 10 Mbps package and get downloads in the 7 to 9 Mbps and uploads in the 1.1 Mbps. The thing you have to get use to is the delay. A typical satellite delay is in the 700 ms range where cable/dls are in the 15 - 40 ms range depending on a lot of factors. This 700 ms delay does make all but the best VOIP deployments not function well. If you are working from home and using a VPN tunnel expect very reduced throughput on the tunnel.

I like the layout of the bath... The tub connected to the cabinets on both sides. Looks good!

lassig....you just made me depressed!...lol