Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 25th, 2008 1 Comment »
Here’s a couple pictures of our paint selection process. We ended up going with the one on the corner of the house - the lighter one, not the one on the top painted board. We’ll have a cream-ish trim color and a red-ish accent color and door. They should start painting next week!
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 21st, 2008 No Comments »
One more receptacle box. A bit of wire cleanup. Rough electrical will be done! (assuming I don’t find anything else while cleaning up and reviewing it all).
Need to fix a stud and redo some vent piping to make the stud more vertical. Need to install vents for dryer and water heater.
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 20th, 2008 No Comments »
I’m very close on finishing everything I need for the rough inspection. I’ve got an appointment with a guy next Saturday to talk about drywall and get a bid.
Recently completed:
All ceiling fan boxes mounted and wired. Can lights on landing wired. Fixtures in kids bath […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 16th, 2008 1 Comment »
Tuesday night
installed can lights in built-in on landing finished cutting block for ceiling fan in second dormer installed boxes for plugs under built-in on landing
Wednesday night
Wired boxes for plugs under built in on landing Hung block for ceiling fan in second dormer with copious amounts of subfloor glue […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 28th, 2008 5 Comments »
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This morning, the roof of our house was an unbroken sheet of shingles. Now it is pierced in three places.
Two plumbing vents went in (a 2 inch and a 3 inch) and I believe that the plumber finished his work. I need to put in a dryer vent and direct vent for the water heater […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 16th, 2008 No Comments »
On Saturday I spent most of the day putting up the backer board behind the stove location. The board isn’t right on the dry-wall, it’s spaced off about an inch to create an air cavity. It went well, but took about 5 hours in total. Part of the time was due to the necessity to […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 11th, 2008 No Comments »
Tuesday night I went down and scrubbed at the grouted tile with cheese cloth to get rid of the grout haze that wasn’t totally cleaned up. I also did some clean up for the plumber who started yesterday and ran a pull string for the phone service which was supposed to be installed yesterday.
Running pull […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 7th, 2008 No Comments »
Floor tile layed. Floor tile sealed. Floor tile grouted. Bodies feel reeled.
Friday night Amber finished laying the floor tile while I did the telecom jack in the kitchen and worked on ceiling fan mount in the master bed room.
On Saturday I:
set a recessed light in the downstairs hallway sealed the tile […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 5th, 2008 2 Comments »
On Wednesday, I talked to a plumber about coming out to take a look at the house and provide an estimate on finishing the plumbing work. Since the house is a mess I went down there Wednesday night to clean it up some before our meeting Thursday morning.
I ended up simply standing the flat wall […]