The heater from Amazon for the mudroom arrived yesterday.
I’ll install it before winter.
1403 3 Ave N main
This is a house built in 1906 at 1403 3 Ave. N., Coalbanks (later to become Lethbridge), AB, Canada. I bought the house in Dec. 2021 as a rental property. It has a 3-bedroom suite on the main floor (“main”). This is the story of that suite.
The blind for bedroom 3 finally fits.
rooms complete (except kitchen)
The main floor suite (P1a) is nearly complete. All rooms have been (mostly) done except the kitchen. It is still a disaster. Here is what must be done today:
- put up BR1 ceiling boards
- remove nails from BR2 ceiling
- cut blind, hang in BR3
- spot clean bathroom floor
- buy laundry shelf hangers, add remaining shelves
- install electrical panel covers
- clean shower
- add stick to bathroom window
The tenant asked about curtains. I told them there are blackout blinds in the bedrooms and daylight blinds in the rest. The bathroom window has privacy film.
mostly cleaning
Mostly cleaning today – scrubbing the floor of paint, drywall, glues, spray foam insulation, epoxy, etc.
I put up the first blind, in bedroom 1…
…and cleaned the paint off the large living room window.
I’m still using flat surfaces as storage facilities.
The kitchen window was framed in with painted 1x4s.
Lots to do. More later.
last day of work, cleanup
Being the last day of work before the tenant shows up, it was the final push. Not everything was done.
I knew that there wouldn’t be enough trim boards, so I urethaned a bunch more. The work area:
Floyd came by as I was urethaning. (Is that a word?)
The living room trim was complete. The patch piece still needs seam seal.
2nd last day of work
Various things were done today. It is my 2nd last day before the tenant moves in.
I rehung the laundry cabinets as they were a little lopsided and put in the shelving.
Dave was by early, and we discussed how to paint the door. I began outside, but the wind carried some dust, so inside it went.
flooring, door trim, laundry cabs
Outside work had to be done before anything inside, but we did get started.
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.
cleanup, trim, bath door, little things
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.
trim boards, window reinstallation
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
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.
