A Rainforest B&B Blog – Puerto Rico

The trials and tribulations of rennovating a bed and breakfast while it is open and without damaging the environment or disturbing the guests.

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Entries Tagged as 'bed and breakfast construction'

Rainforest Secret Garden Fish Pond – update #3

March 7th, 2010 · No Comments · , Fish Pond, bed and breakfast construction

Our new fish pond is filled and Laurie has started to plant around it. All that remains is finishing the bio-filter and adjusting the liner edges to look natural.

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To Be or Not To Be… Chlorinated

October 1st, 2009 · 1 Comment · bed and breakfast construction

We have a huge ugly hole in our courtyard that’s big enough to bury a dinosaur,  thanks to an old visit from hurricane Georges. Like Bill said in the previous blog, sometimes even a much needed project to make the place beautiful for the guests has to wait it’s turn. We have looked at this [...]

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Fixing the porch railing

September 16th, 2009 · 1 Comment · bed and breakfast construction

The chalet had a porch railing all around it still even after the main house it was connected to was destroyed in hurricane Georges. That railing ended behind the chalet where the big porch over the old pool used to be. We have replaced the old scary rotten wood deck that was around the pool [...]

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Our Bed anb Breakfast Building Techniques

October 7th, 2006 · No Comments · , bed and breakfast construction

When we moved in and started building there was no electricity, no water, and the one mostly finished building was full of destroyed furniture and had a leaky roof. The property had been abandoned for five years after hurricane Georges destroyed the main house. As I have told many guests when giving them tours of [...]

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