I (finally) got some deadbolts installed in the rear and main house. It only took me a year, so that’s not bad.
520 12C St N, main
This house stands tall among the others on its block. It is a wooden structure built in 1911. It has been added onto a few times, some of which must be torn down or reworked. There does not seem to be outstanding history connected to this house. There is, however, a large foundation problem to be corrected – stable for now but in need of heavy work. You can read all about its progress here. Comment are welcome.
LG washer from Home Depot
At Home Depot, I saw an LG washer.
(Ever wonder what LG stands for? There were two companies in South Korea – Lucky (락희), Korea’s first plastics manufacturer, and Goldstar, Korea’s first radio manufacturer. They merged in 1983 to create Lucky-Goldstar, later shortened to LG. There’s an interesting account of this in Wikipedia.) But I digress…
I bought a used Samsung washer (also Korean) for this suite but ended up using it at 1403 as the old top-loader that was there quit.
I bought a new Samsung washer for this suite. Well the used Samsung at 1403 quit, too, so that’s where the new Samsung is. I’m tired of buying and fixing old machines. I’m tired of moving machines around.
So I bought the LG. Where is it now? In this (520) suite, hopefully to stay.
wooden trim, door frames
Floyd and I worked hard yesterday and finally got rid of the remaining green and cream paint in the living room doorways. Next: stain, polyurethane, … what else?
wooden wall planks
And now, for my next trick, I must turn this…
into this…
to finish this.
Wish me luck.
Well, the first cut isn’t bad
The tongue and groove still has to be made. Only 5 3/4 more 2x6s to go.
wainscoting trim
Now that these are stained and urethaned, back they go.
Now that that’s done, there’s paint to strip, window frames to stain, stairs to sand, and walls to mud.
painting continues
The painting continues from yesterday.
I wonder if Mrs M Parfitt has paid her balance yet.
to paint or not to paint
What do you think? (This is the living room, BTW.)
It seems a no-brainer.
new oak panels gained, stained, & urethaned
Should I give up rhyming?
Floyd and I looked at the drywall in the sun room yesterday. It was damaged at the top and just didn’t match the rest of the room. What’s more, it was yellow! “Just pull it off then,” Floyd said. So we did. I got four new panels the same as yesterday’s. All the painted paneling and drywall will return to oak paneling. I spent yesterday staining them, and today they are polyurethaned. (Yes, I’m aware that polyurethane is not a verb.)
attempt at removing old yellow paint from oak paneling (took bloody forever):
yesterday’s paneling:
pulling off old painted paneling:
insulating while there’s a chance to do so:
today’s urethaning:
knock-down complete, next window trim
Shane and I completed the knock-down wall surfacing last night. In case you have never heard of this, knock-down texture is spackling texture with a flattened surface.
This is what it looks like before paint.
the paint begins
The urethane is almost done. Now the paint begins.
