Posts Tagged ‘home’

Basement renovation progress

I finally got around to leveling the kitchen floor.  I don’t know why it’s taken me so long to do it, other than wanting to make sure I did it right.  The floor is sloped down a bit into the bathroom area, and the place where the kitchen sink cabinet would go is about an inch and three-eighths below the surrounding area on one side.  So what I began doing yesterday was leveling the floor an inch on that side, and allowing it to gently fill the slope to a flat, level surface. 

I’m using leveling cement to do the job.  I’ve placed painted pieces of wood all around the edges of the area I’m going to fill, to make it easier to remove the pieces once I’m done.  The wood pieces are from three-eighths to a half an inch thick, to allow plenty of expansion room between the leveling cement area and the wall studs.  I’ve already primed the area using the recommended latex floor primer, and the next step was to mix up the cement and pour it out.

While waiting for the primer to dry, I also did some water system maintenance yesterday by changing out the carbon filter.  I do that about every three months, and it was about time.  I would have done it the other day with changing out the sediment filter, except that we had run out of carbon filters and therefore I had to go to the store to get some.  So that’s another project done. Read more…

Working a green job

Green jobs are, in my opinion, the best kinds of jobs.  They are good for the environment, usually have some element of social responsibility, and pay a living wage.  There is nothing excessive about a socially responsible green job; you get enough to live by, you give enough back for others to be able to do the same.  Everyone wins.

How to find a green job

More people than ever want to be at a job that’s friendly to the environment and families.  Only a few want to be at jobs full of politics, corruption, and bureaucracy.  So how do you find a green job at a time when it’s difficult to find any job? Read more…

My career working at home

I have a pretty good career as it is.  I am a co-manager of HiViz.com, an online business that offers kits and assembles trigger circuits for high-speed photography.  I perform the majority of the kit packaging, assembly, testing, and order packaging, as well as the web design.  My husband does the customer support, shipping, and web content updating.  We truly have a real work-at-home business that has grown practically from nothing into what it is now. Read more…