520 12C St N main

This is the main suite on the property. It encompasses the entire house. It has a kitchen, living room, laundry room, and sun room on the 1st floor and three bedrooms and a bath upstairs.

rear walkway nearly complete

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We (finally) resumed work on the rear walkway for the house.  We picked up 3/4 yd. of gravel from Lethbridge Landscape Supply and spread it out along the walkway area.  This is what it looked like over time. 

20240607 root problems with last post hole
20260616 new back fence line
20260623 main rear walkway stump removal
 

20260623 main rear walkway almost leveled
20260829 main rear walkway with gravel

So today’s work was to add more gravel, level everything with a slight slope, and put in the paving stones (basically concrete blocks 24″x24″).  The existing ones needed to be moved to line up with the new ones, so the steps were temporarily removed.  The pavers were not quite lined up with the house because the patio area slab (formerly gazebo slab) was slightly askew.  We straightened them all out, and now I think it looks alright. 

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Next is to straighten the edge of the gravel with a form, fill in the remaining edge with soil, and plant some sort of vegetation – small shrubs maybe.  But at least now the tenants can shovel the walk of snow without digging up the gravel. 

However, the gate still isn’t up yet, so I guess that would be next. 

door latches

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This is the first maintenance done since the plumbing fiasco.  The bedroom 1 door didn’t latch because of James’ abusive vandalism of the property.  He put spikes through the door, door frame, and surrounding wall framing.  Since then, the door has been out-of-whack. 

Note to self:  Do not rent to people like this, no matter how irascible they are. 

Anyway, thanks to wood filler compound, the door latch is now fixed. 

I still have to find a plate for the sunroom door lock.  

new laundry machines

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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.

a little dim

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The tenant advised me that the bathroom light, out of the blue, stopped dimming. It wasn’t a big deal, said the tenant, but it was annoying nonetheless.

What the heck is this all about?  If it dimmed before, and then stopped dimming, it must be an electronic issue.

I replaced the dimmer switch, and the problem persisted.  The tenant suggested it might be a light fixture.  One other tenant who shares rent attends university in Electrical Engineering and suggested it was the fixture.  So a few weeks later I brought by a new light fixture.

Just in case, I also brought some dimmable bulbs.  Before replacing the fixture, I thought I’d take a chance and replace the bulbs.

  

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Ta-dah!  Fixed!

Hmm.  The tenant didn’t change the bulbs?

LG washer from Home Depot

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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.