The cement board siding cutter arrived.
It should make cutting the siding pieces to the right length much easier, so I’m told.
520 12C St N rear
This is the second suite at the property.
shed siding continues
The shed siding is almost compete. The doors and surrounding areas are left.
The rear suite gate hinges are installed. I’m not sure if this is ideal or otherwise as I have never used this type of hinge. As well, the post is pulled one way but doesn’t have any opposing, stabilizing pull.
siding swap
Siding was taken from the rear building to side the shed. New siding will be put on the rear building.
Pretty small building. We might have enough siding. Hard to say as there was no siding on the south side of the rear building.
Now, none of the rear building has any siding.
dead as a doorbell
The doorbell quit! But I know why. It was a clearance item at Rona. When I installed it, I knew the button was sticky. So when someone pushed it, it activated the doorbell and ran forever until the thing died. Was it the transformer or the chime? Hard to say. But I replaced it all anyway.
In retrospect, sale items are not always a good purchase.
2nd deadbolt
Once enough practise was put in on the main house, the rear deadbolt is next.
Elextrolux laundry set
Finally, the new laundry machine (stacked washer dryer combo) has been installed. It only took Visions a month to deliver it.
520 rear complete … for now
The project at the rear of 520 is now complete. The renter moved in today. Actually, she has been moving stuff in for the past two weeks.
Some last minute tweaks and fixes:
shower door
This shower door from Maax has to have some of the poorest instructions I’ve ever seen. Not the poorest, but close. It doesn’t tell you which way various objects go (pointing inside or outside of the shower). The diagrams are all fairly simple but nondescript in terms of orientation. We ended up losing five toggle bolts inside the wall because we had to take a bracket off and put it on facing the other direction. If I had this to do all over again, I would know what to do. But how many shower doors does a person install during their lifetime?
I’ll show you when it’s all done.
eco paint trays
Whooda thunkit? Now we have eco paint trays.
$9.49 plus tax. Not bad. The flimsy plastic trays were $4.
bedroom window framing, ceiling paint
Double-header, instep king studs, and a couple of cripples.
Next: cut the window hole and add the window. The nail flange will have to be tucked inside the siding somehow.
After that, add a one-by frame, drywall, tape, mud, sand, skim -coat, sand again, paint, and trim. Almost done. Ha.
In the mean time, while I wait for FT, I’ll be painting the ceiling again. The touch-up paint I used a couple of days ago froze in the van and changed colour.
Final coat?