Fragwell Manor Introduction

The original Fragwell Manor was a three-story house built in the early 1900s. The new Fragwell Manor is a 1996 Champion single-wide mobile home.

The idea with Fragwell Manor has always been ninja-stealth. The outside should look kind of plain, but nice. Inside, however, should look great. Choosing a trailer scored a lot of plainness points. What was interesting is the fact that it doesn't look like any trailer I've ever been in. It looks like a house inside.

Perfect project house, but it needs a lot of work outside. The grass isn't grass at all. It's a bunch of weeds and morning glory plants holding hands.

I have already done a bit of work. The cost so far:

a gallon of Roundup spot-killing the worst weeds and clearing the walkways
one cheapass Weed Eater trimmer. It died a horrible death with much smoke and arcing. IT didn't even last through the original trimmer line spool it came with. Piece of crap.
One can wasp and hornet killer to take out the nests on the back door and the wood frame that holds the swamp cooler up.
New swamp cooler pump. The original one was the cheap kind that you have to replace every season. The new one is a lot more robust and has a motor four times the size of the dead one.
A block of unknown... something... that you put in swamp cooler reservoirs to make them smell better and keep mineral scale off of the cooler pads.


Things to come soon:

new water line to the cooler since the one on it now is taped in five places and still leaks. At least I can recycle the copper for money. The new line will be plastic.
swamp cooler needs to be moved from the kitchen window to the living room window. It keeps blowing out the pilot lights on our gas range. Not much gas to speak of, but it's still dangerous. Other than that, the new position will allow the air to blow more evenly.
new gas range. Even with the pilot lights saved by relocation of the cooler, pilot lights still use fuel and are still an open flame. We want electric ignition.
Weeds must die. Short of taking a propane ditch torch to them all, they must be killed.