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	<description>Your connection to the green home improvement movement in Canada. Free Articles, Green Building Forum, Tools &#38; Resources, News &#38; Events, Green Building Blogs, Do it yourself projects, Definitions, and more.</description>
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		<title>Forestry, Gardens &amp; House Work</title>
		<link>http://www.raisingspaces.com/index.php/2010/05/17/forestry-gardens-house-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 22:31:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past April I spent a week in the woods at MacPhail Woods taking a university course, Environmental Studies 209 – Ecological Forestry, learning about forest ecology, sustainable forestry practices, forest restoration and the Acadien Forests.
It was an amazing experiential learning course and everything we learned has stayed with me and I think it will stay [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Straw Bale Home Building Primer</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:38:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So you want to build your own straw bale home.  You’ve seen them in green home building books and on TV shows, you saw green home builders wax poetic about their homes low impact on the environment and connection to the local ecology.  You’ve researched all the possible alternative home building techniques and the thought [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The last few months on the house!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:31:27 +0000</pubDate>
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Finally I have gotten round to getting some photos uploaded! We are officially moved in, the mortgage has been completed, and we are “done”, although I don’t think the work will ever stop! There’s some niggly trim work to complete, a few touch-ups, there will be on-going stucco maintenance and inspections, fire wood to cut [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back to School</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 15:26:46 +0000</pubDate>
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Tomorrow I will be applying to go back to school, enrolling in the BSc physics program with a parallel diploma in engineering.  I will be attending part time, doing two courses per semester hopefully with the support of my workplace.  It’s pretty exciting for me and the courses I will be taking will be both [...]]]></description>
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		<title>House Progress</title>
		<link>http://www.raisingspaces.com/index.php/2009/07/15/house-progress/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:54:55 +0000</pubDate>
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It’s been a long time since I did an update on the house. No, we are not moved in yet. No, I don’t know when we will be moving in. But I hope very soon.

The electrical work is 99.99% complete.
The light fixtures are all installed and working.
The stairs are in and the railing is up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stairs</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 18:06:21 +0000</pubDate>
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We finally have stairs!  The weekend before last we put in the stairs that have been laying in pieces in our kitchen for about a year!  We still need to build handrails and re-sand and finish them after being exposed to clay dust for months but it’s nice to be able to go up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tile and Window Sills</title>
		<link>http://www.raisingspaces.com/index.php/2009/04/16/tile-and-window-sills/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 03:27:13 +0000</pubDate>
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This long Easter weekend we have focused on the window trim, bathroom tile and later on today concrete floor finishing.  The windows have all their birch plywood sills cut, installed and finished finally, and there are 8 windows boxed out with trim on the first floor.  Only 6 to go on the first floor and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open Stairwell</title>
		<link>http://www.raisingspaces.com/index.php/2009/03/31/open-stairwell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:31:37 +0000</pubDate>
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 Notice the distinct lack of scaffolding in our stairwell!  We finished the trim at the top of the stairwell and were able to take the scaffolding out last week.  The scaffolding has been there for basically a year so it’s  a pretty big milestone!
We also have a very large pile ($1000+ worth) of knotty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shower Stall</title>
		<link>http://www.raisingspaces.com/index.php/2009/03/15/shower-stall/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 02:28:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>greenspree</dc:creator>
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 Today we finished painting the bathtub (sorry no photos) and putting in the waterproof membrane in the shower stall.  The cement board was installed last week and the new cedar ceiling on Saturday so the only thing left to do to get the bathroom ready for floor tiles was to install the membrane.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cement Board and Cement Floors</title>
		<link>http://www.raisingspaces.com/index.php/2009/03/11/cement-board-and-cement-floors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:49:05 +0000</pubDate>
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Things are progressing at the house and really starting to take shape, especially after taking a night to clean the bulk of the dirt and mud that was on the floors downstairs!  When the floors are wet they look fantastic, almost like polished black marble and hopefully when polished and waxed  they will keep [...]]]></description>
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