flooring, door trim, laundry cabs

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Floyd came early today while I was shovelling the last of the gravel onto the trailer.  In completing the main suite of 1403, the trailer had to be freed of gravel and road crush.  It’s been sitting in the rear waiting to be moved and used at 520. 

 

When we got back, we began work on the list.  I think there are now 40 or so items on the list to complete. 

The floor levelling compound was dry, so I cut a piece of proboard to fit, mixed another batch, and filled the gaps and cracks.  I’ll glue the flooring down tomorrow. 

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road crush, gravel in walkway

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The walkway for the main suite has finally gotten its load of gravel brought in. 

It took about 45 minutes to unload. 

More gravel is needed at the east end of the walkway, but at least the tenants don’t have to walk in the mud while work at 1403 is being done. 

cleanup, trim, bath door, little things

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A trip to Home Depot to buy the final door (between mudroom and kitchen): 

We continued with cleanup of rooms.  I removed all the lathe boards from the pantry as Dave said it would be a good tool room.  None of these have been de-nailed, planed, or urethaned yet. 

We continued with the bedroom 3 window, adding furring strips to bring the frame out to the right level.  It still isn’t right, and Dave will likely have to mud it a lot. 

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stuff comes out, stuff goes in

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In preparation of the main floor, the mudroom had to be emptied of upstairs appliances.  The old range is now outside, and the new one was taken up.  It was brought up the stairs end-over-end and ended up up-side-down in the bedroom. 

The old refrigerator (a tiny apartment sized one) is now in the shed, but the new one is still in its box in the entrance.  We don’t want to overcrowd the upstairs with stuff until more work is done. 

A book shelf used for tools was brought up, but nothing else will be done until the main floor is complete. 

trim boards, window reinstallation

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More trim board was brought from home to be run through the planer then polyurethaned. 

This time, I used the table saw to trim the edges to they aren’t so danged prickly.  This is very time consuming.  I hope my tenants appreciate it. 

Next, the window in the back bedroom needed reinstalling.
1) It wouldn’t close at the top.  The rough framing was crooked, or it became crooked when the house was levelled, so the window frame was offset by 1/4 inch.
2) Insulation was pushed into the gaps from the inside, pushing the Resisto tape flashing apart.
3) The Resisto tape flashing that was used does not stick very well.  It turns out that we need to apply a primer first.  Well **** that.  Off it came.  I bought some French manufactured tape, and it worked well.  After the flashing tape (tape flashing?) was on,…

First, make a shim 0″ at one end and 1/4″ at the other (a very long wedge).  Next, try the window in the hole.  Then take it out again and make another shim.  Then try the window again.  In and out, in and out.  Finally it fit.  Fasten it with screws, and tape it again. 

 

Only the inside trim needs completion. 

linoleum floor patch, moving of stuff

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This is what the living room floor looks like now. 

The seam sealer is harder to use than what the salesperson said. 

The mudroom window is now un-re-framed.  Eh?  It was reframed to fit the new window that I broke while trying to put it in.  But it still didn’t fit as Benchmark didn’t actually cut it down to size.  So, I removed the furring spacer boards to enlarge the hole and retaped all of it. 

Bedroom 1 door was painted with a second coat. 

As we have to clear everything out of the main floor, and as the 2nd floor isn’t huge, I moved the old range (a.k.a. stove) out and put it on Kijiji for sale.  $100.

trim, chimney floor hole

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The first screw-up for today was the 1x2s from Home Depot. 

They are most certainly not 1x2s.  A one-by-two, of course, is not 1″ by 2″, but 1-1/2″ x 3/4″.  However, these are not 3/4″.  They’re 5/8″.  I’ll be taking them back tomorrow morning.  More shrinkflation. 

I needed to rip 1x2s down to 3/4″ square to act as filler between the window frame and trim.  Instead, I ripped some old 1x6s down. 

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outlets, switches, gaps, fillers

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We begin again.  This is where we left off last time – with a temporary floor. 

I noticed, when putting a cover on the outside GFI for block heaters, that nothing would plug in.  The outlet was stuck.  I see now that it is a tamper resistant outlet.  In other words, it has some piece of plastic in there to prevent things from being plugged in.  Dave noticed and told me about it earlier in the year when he was plugging in the cement mixer.  As it turns out, all GFI (or, at any rate, all 20A GFI) duplex receptacles are tamper resistant.  I went to Home Depot to get one that isn’t, but they didn’t have any.  Dunno what I’m going to do here.  More on that later. 

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living room window in, skim coat on

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Time to put in a temporary floor so we can get the window in.  I picked up some treated 1/2″ plywood from Lealta Building Supplies.  The counter guy game me some good advice about later painting the surface of this.  It will be two layers of 1/2″ instead of one 3/4″ ply and one 1/4″ paintable ply. 

The window is in.  Dave and I hoisted the window up on its frame and  s l o w l y  carried it to the veranda where we rested it on three upturned buckets.  We put a 1×4 across the opening on the inside so the window wouldn’t just fall in. 

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