projects on the go
I’m taking up more of the flooring damaged roughly 1.5 years ago in hopes of having the time to throw some linoleum planks down so as to cover up that damn floor.
It’s slow going, and not really a priority, but it must come to fruition sometime in the future, don’t you think? I’m tired of walking on MDF.
I did the ‘call before you dig’ (or now they call it ‘click before you dig’) and hung up my permit notices. I marked the proposed fence line with marker paint.
Of course, this line will likely change, depending on the utility location markers when they come to mark, the tenant(s), Floyd’s advice, and my ongoing vision for the place. It will change the rear entrance pathway for the guys in the house and the rear tenant’s entrance.
I’m still a little undecided on where the fence should be. Originally, I envisioned a motorized sliding gate, keeping vehicles inside the fence line.
The neighbour down the alley has this fence. It looks like it has been disused for some time.
This project will likely prove to be too complicated and costly. So best go with an ordinary fence inside the property with the vehicles outside.
I haven’t done much work on 520 for a while because I’m waiting for the ‘call before you dig’ people to do their inspections. They will flag the area for all utilities (gas, electricity, cable, phone, water, sewer). Until that happens, I wait. Until then, I marked the area where the fence will be constructed.
I have a feeling that, under the gazebo, there is a septic tank. Just a feeling. There’s all manner of other junk buried back there.
Glenn left behind, among lots of other stuff, two folding wooden stools. One was painted black, the other unpainted wood. I have been moving them around from place to place for years. They became the next small build project. Extremely small. Here are the results.
I cut 1x2s to fit and mounted them. Pretty simple. Good for camping? For now, they’re holding my plants in the front room. Pictures later.
To the dump, to the dump, to the dump dump dump.
720kg of rubbish, mostly wood, concrete, and metal. Floyd’s old wheel barrow went. (You can see it in the leftmost picture.)
We also pieced together S‘s barbecue. It was missing some screws.
See what kind of nice landlord I am? 
This is the latest “project”! I say “project” as I have no idea how things will work out. It arrived a couple of days ago. I’ll set it up and fiddle with it, see what I can do with it.
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Any ideas?
I was thinking of a title to give this.
We dug a hole to put the gravel and sand that will hold the concrete pads for the walkway. What on earth do you call that?
It never ends! More concrete, wood, and other building materials are gathering up. Time for a dump run.
To put up a fence, we have to create a walkway from the house to the rear. This means digging up earth, roots, rocks, foreign junk, and whatever else is in the way. Paving stones will be put in and will lead to the rear parking.
Holy crap, are there a lot of roots!
We’ve flagged it off and will try again another day.
Finally the deadbolt is complete.
Because the laundry machines had been changed in the rear suite, I had two new machines (well, new washer and almost new dryer) left over. I asked the tenants in the house if they wanted to swap them out. After discussing some details, here they are.
The washer has 5 years warranty, and the dryer has … not sure.