Too much "Great Stuff" and the weight of it pulled it down the wall. Now we have to sand it all and repaint...oh well. (And we are being invaded by Mikey The Shadow Puppet.)
The messiness of sanding woes...
Making Progress
New doorway in back bedroom.
Too much "Great Stuff" and the weight of it pulled it down the wall. Now we have to sand it all and repaint...oh well. (And we are being invaded by Mikey The Shadow Puppet.)
The messiness of sanding woes...
Too much "Great Stuff" and the weight of it pulled it down the wall. Now we have to sand it all and repaint...oh well. (And we are being invaded by Mikey The Shadow Puppet.)
The messiness of sanding woes...
Seaming...
A couple nights this week were spent seaming the bathroom. What a messy process and we haven't even gotten to the first round of sanding. I don't have much confidence in what I am doing, but as long as the finished wall doesn't show any lines, I guess I've done alright. We have some large gaps between panels of dry wall and the first attempt at stuffing them didn't work. The newspaper was poking out and would have made it impossible to put tape over the top. So, I pulled that out, re-stuffed, and put tape over that. We'll see today if that worked better. I'd be ok if it was sucked in--better than being pushed out!
Need to Catch Up!!
So much to bring you up to date on...
Biggest news...THE BARNAGE IS FINISHED!!! It passed code inspection (which took all of three minutes), has had the cars parked in it for over two months, and is absolutely loved by its owners! It looks so pretty in the snow.
The other news is that there is a bet going on that involves the finishing of the bathroom and closet. If it is finished to the point of needing to be primed and painted, Kevin gets a weeks worth of massages. This includes a functional closet in both the bathroom and closet/hallway; seamed, sanded, and finished dray wall; and lighting fixtures. If this is not completed, Carrie gets the weeks worth of massages. Kevin has been working just about every night on the closet and I can say it is really moving along. We have drawers that pull out and a plan for the doors on both sides. We bought cool bug jar lights for the bathroom too!!
We have shoveled our driveway three times now and like the new shovel we purchased for the light fluffy snow. Just push and flick.
Oh, and in the background, there is talk of a pig roast/birthday party for the Summit sometime in March! But, shhh, it's a secret, don't tell her.
Biggest news...THE BARNAGE IS FINISHED!!! It passed code inspection (which took all of three minutes), has had the cars parked in it for over two months, and is absolutely loved by its owners! It looks so pretty in the snow.
The other news is that there is a bet going on that involves the finishing of the bathroom and closet. If it is finished to the point of needing to be primed and painted, Kevin gets a weeks worth of massages. This includes a functional closet in both the bathroom and closet/hallway; seamed, sanded, and finished dray wall; and lighting fixtures. If this is not completed, Carrie gets the weeks worth of massages. Kevin has been working just about every night on the closet and I can say it is really moving along. We have drawers that pull out and a plan for the doors on both sides. We bought cool bug jar lights for the bathroom too!!
We have shoveled our driveway three times now and like the new shovel we purchased for the light fluffy snow. Just push and flick.
Oh, and in the background, there is talk of a pig roast/birthday party for the Summit sometime in March! But, shhh, it's a secret, don't tell her.
Thermostat: Plans A, B, C, and C 1/2
Yesterday's plan was to move our thermostat from the "den" to a more central location and so that it wasn't positioned right above a return vent. Simple enough--right? Then it was on to reattaching our second set of stairs off of our porch and start/finish building our side door on the barnage. P.S. Kevin took the day off from work.
So here is the actuality of the day's events:
Removed old thermostat, and smartly attach a mulligan string in case those wires become fearful of the light of day.
After much deliberation, a small hole was drilled in one wall only to find out that there was a cross support between the studs that we couldn't get pass. Plan A, no gold--NEXT!
Plan B: Try for the wall below the stairs. Drilled hole. Same cross beam, but this time we were able to actually drill a hole on the opposite side of the wall (in the basement stair well) and feed the wire across. Said wire was supposed to be pulled from old thermostat and would easily then be moved to Plan B's location. But, of course, this plan was foiled when old thermostat wire was discovered to be wedged between a support beam and the floor. Of course we thought of cutting it, but after measuring, we wouldn't have enough to attach to the new thermostat. Bugger!
Plan C and C 1/2: We found the original thermostat wiring (before central air unit that now doesn't exist) and we were excited to be able to use that one. Of course it reached just fine, hooking up easily. But after scratching our heads as to why the heat wasn't turning on, Kevin discovered that the line was completely severed in one location. Severed line = no juice... bah! (Interruption for electrical inspection for the garage. We didn't pass... see next entry.) Run to store to purchase complete wiring.
Here Kevin is with the new wiring and completing the "quick" thermostat relocation.
And now we aren't sure if a programmable, digital thermostat will work in our old, open floor plan home. The furnace runs a lot more now--not sure if it is supposed to. In our last apartment, the furnace turned on this much and we were told that it how the new efficient furnaces work. I think we should have it checked...
So here is the actuality of the day's events:
Removed old thermostat, and smartly attach a mulligan string in case those wires become fearful of the light of day.
After much deliberation, a small hole was drilled in one wall only to find out that there was a cross support between the studs that we couldn't get pass. Plan A, no gold--NEXT!
Plan B: Try for the wall below the stairs. Drilled hole. Same cross beam, but this time we were able to actually drill a hole on the opposite side of the wall (in the basement stair well) and feed the wire across. Said wire was supposed to be pulled from old thermostat and would easily then be moved to Plan B's location. But, of course, this plan was foiled when old thermostat wire was discovered to be wedged between a support beam and the floor. Of course we thought of cutting it, but after measuring, we wouldn't have enough to attach to the new thermostat. Bugger!
Plan C and C 1/2: We found the original thermostat wiring (before central air unit that now doesn't exist) and we were excited to be able to use that one. Of course it reached just fine, hooking up easily. But after scratching our heads as to why the heat wasn't turning on, Kevin discovered that the line was completely severed in one location. Severed line = no juice... bah! (Interruption for electrical inspection for the garage. We didn't pass... see next entry.) Run to store to purchase complete wiring.
Here Kevin is with the new wiring and completing the "quick" thermostat relocation.
And now we aren't sure if a programmable, digital thermostat will work in our old, open floor plan home. The furnace runs a lot more now--not sure if it is supposed to. In our last apartment, the furnace turned on this much and we were told that it how the new efficient furnaces work. I think we should have it checked...
The Rest of the day...
So, as mentioned, between plans of the thermostat, we had the electrician come and inspect the garage for code compliance. Unfortunately, we didn't pass due to the need to change the romex cable that runs through the conduit in the ground. Apparently code states that that cable isn't certified to be used underground--even in waterproof conduit. So, we have to change that out which includes putting in a junction box. The rest was good enough, of course that meant that things could be done to bring it up to code. So, we are going to get some device to attach all of the ground wires in the junction box to one neat location. No biggie...
Maybe we can do that tomorrow.
After the thermostat was in place and functioning we move outside. The stairs are now attached and our lawn looks a little less hick-ish. We moved on to the gutters (not part of original day's plans, but we all know how that goes.)
Kevin and I did the low sections, but decided for safety, it would be best to wait for the "ladder placing extraordinaire" (my dad) to help with the next, much higher, sections. Then Kevin moved on to making some center supports for our bed. The day ended with traveling over the Maggie's and watching The Taking of Pelham 123.
It was a full day!
Maybe we can do that tomorrow.
After the thermostat was in place and functioning we move outside. The stairs are now attached and our lawn looks a little less hick-ish. We moved on to the gutters (not part of original day's plans, but we all know how that goes.)
Kevin and I did the low sections, but decided for safety, it would be best to wait for the "ladder placing extraordinaire" (my dad) to help with the next, much higher, sections. Then Kevin moved on to making some center supports for our bed. The day ended with traveling over the Maggie's and watching The Taking of Pelham 123.
It was a full day!
L E A V E S!!!!!
With the help from many people (Maggie, Mom, Trini, and Diego) 99% of the leaves in our yard ended up in a gigantic pile in front of our house. And what does any good person do after raking all the leaves? JUMP IN THEM!! Kevin enjoyed displaying his strong gymnastic skills last night.
Yesterday, there were two high school kids who spied our pile of leaves. With my enthusiastic permission, they enjoyed about thirty minutes of good leaf jumping. It was awesome to see other people enjoying the pile too. I always have a hard time resisting the urge to jump in the piles that line the road. I was glad to see someone else has the same issues that I do! I think next year, I'll make the pile in from the road more and put up a sign with a rake that says, "Jump away!"
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