I picked up more drywall for the living room from Home Depot.
But, before that, I wanted to check their spray foam bottles and applicator. It seems that that little plastic thing stuck in the applicator was not part of it but likely broke off from another spray foam bottle.
Before any drywall is put up on the final living room wall, several things must still happen.
- Insert living room window glass into its frame, seal it, install window frame into rough opening.
- Reframe rough opening if window does not fit. (That corner of the house had been lifted, so most certainly the rough opening shape has changed.)
- Insert bricks under add-on sill plate. Raise the room enough to do so.
So, that means no drywall, taping, or mudding yet.
The previous owners – or the cable company – ran a coaxial cable across the front of the house just under the eave. It looked kinda ugly. I took it out. It will run under the house in the basement instead. But they put the end of it in a weird spot (red). I want it to be where most likely the tenants’ television will be (green). As soon as my crimping tool from Amazon comes, I can complete the task. (Canadian Tire didn’t have any. They had coaxial cable ends and numerous wire stripping and crimping tools, but nothing for coax cable.)
Speaking of cable, one of the tenants added an Xplornet receiver without the Landlord’s permission. Down it finally came. I called the company many months ago asking them to take it away, but they refused because I am not the client. “I’m the damned landlord!” But they didn’t budge. So they lose a piece of equipment to the electronics recycling people.
In the mean time, we prepped the living room glass for re-sealing into its frame.
The glass was caulked using Flex Paste. Floyd saw Flex Seal on TV and thought it might be a good product. At $22 a tube, it should be good. Dave said that their advertisements should include that one must be a welter-weight champion to squeeze it out of the tube. Now (at time of writing this, next day) both arms are sore. Okay, so it isn’t just from squeezing the tube – it is from all the other combined work.
We cut pieces of linoleum (Dave’s idea) to put under the glass (bottom of frame) so the pane a) wouldn’t just hang on the caulk and b) wouldn’t sit directly on something rigid (wooden frame).
So there it sits, curing for a couple of days.
After all this, Dave and I worked on trying to raise the add-on enough to put bricks in between the sill plate and the foundation.
In the mean time, the living room window cures,
the bottle jack waits,
and the back gate is secured.
