Another I Spy item from the paper — a lecture series on “green”, sustainable building/retrofits every Saturday at 2pm from Oct 17 through Nov 14th, over at Radha.
Topics include:
Green Roofs
Sustainable Building
Light and Heat
All the details can be found here.

I know it’s last minute, but I spotted this in a community paper – Vancouver Heritage Foundation is offering an all-day class on old building/house conservation this Saturday (Oct 17). See their site for all the details.

I’ve been having a problem with my Flickr Photo Album plugin–when selecting photos with the plugin to appear in a post it seems some are replaced with a “This Photo is Currently Unavailable” error image.  This would happen even though the photos are available.
After much research I learned that this error happens when you update [...]

Just in case anyone is interested in seeing the kinds of plans the City needs to see in order to get a building permit, here they are (it took me about 3 days of solid work to understand the requirements, survey the property and use CorelDraw to create the plans):

Permit Combined – Upload a Document to [...]

Several weeks ago I was pretty psyched about finding a couple great old doors and a fantastic old double hung window for a tiny fraction of what they would have cost new.
The honeymoon is long since over. I’ve spent weeks with chemicals and heat guns stripping the several layers or latex and oil and whatever [...]

Yesterday I removed the double-hung windows from the demo house.  It proved to be a lot more work than I had expected.  This is because I didn’t know what I was doing–but not for lack of trying.  I spent a lot of time searching for information on how to remove a double-hung window and frame [...]