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A Crock of Schmidt

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Slo Mo Reno – The Paint Job

August 12, 2020 by acrockofschmidt 2 Comments

Here is why I hate fashion and design and anything to do with the overarching beauty industry. The seventies. Someone, or a select group of someones, decided, in the seventies, that brown was an attractive colour and should be plastered on highly visible items like clothing, cars, and houses. These same someones then decided to […]

Filed Under: House Schmidt Tagged With: designer, house, painting, renovations

Slow Mo Reno – Garage Grossness

June 1, 2020 by acrockofschmidt Leave a Comment

Two bay, two car garage

If you don’t think it’s possible for a pandemic virus to evolve here, then you’ve never gutted a forty-five-year-old, mouse-infested garage before. Well, I just did. One very well could be gestating within my body as I right this. Our house, particularly the garage, was suspect from the moment we first laid eyes on it. […]

Filed Under: House Schmidt Tagged With: garage, house, mice, renos, water

Slow Mo Reno – Timber!

December 11, 2017 by acrockofschmidt Leave a Comment

Chainsaws are the indisputable kings of power tools.  There’s not a man alive who doesn’t immediately devolve into Tim Allen ape grunting seconds after hearing the sputtered pops of a chainsaw being started.  When the throttle is fully engaged and the screaming metal shrieks through a neighbourhood, like DIY meerkats, men turn their heads to […]

Filed Under: Funny Schmidt Tagged With: DIY, house, power tools, renos, renovations, trees

Slow Mo Reno – Contracting a Sticker Shock

November 9, 2017 by acrockofschmidt 4 Comments

There are two groups of people in Calgary; those that work in the oil industry and those that renovate their homes.  Sure, there are thousands of others who work in service industries and the civil service, but in two years’ time when the NDP is obliterated in the provincial election and the “new” conservatives dial […]

Filed Under: House Schmidt Tagged With: Calgary, contractor, cost, debt, house, money, real estate, renovations

I Made A Contractor Cry

December 17, 2014 by acrockofschmidt Leave a Comment

When I bought my first house I had three desires driving my purchase.  First, I wanted a place that was mine; not a rental, not my parents’, mine, all mine so that I could do whatever I bloody well pleased with it.  If I wanted to paint a room bright orange in honour of The […]

Filed Under: Funny Schmidt Tagged With: crying, house, money, renovations

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