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Construction & Weather

by Alison Moore Smith on March 9, 2010 · 5 comments

When we finally closed the construction loan last November, I was sure we had missed the good-weather window and would be sitting around in our rental house watching the snow fall for a number of months. To my surprise, even the famous Utah snow doesn’t completely stop the building process. In fact, to this point [...]

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Snow Stops Construction Until 2010

by Alison Moore Smith on December 30, 2009 · 3 comments

It’s likely that we’ve had more snow this past December than any other in my lifetime. I attribute this to two things: The construction gods are trying to sabotage our building efforts Global warming Whichever is responsible, it’s keeping progress to a crawl. Once the snow abates, we pour the slab!

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Snow Job

by Alison Moore Smith on December 8, 2009 · 1 comment

My face froze off just taking pictures. How do these guys do it all day? Does their blood thicken? The big storm came in over the weekend. The kids loved it. I didn’t. Here’s the math: SNOW ≠ good for construction Still, they were out there getting the job done. I’d love to hand out [...]

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