And the scraping continues, this time on the second floor in the middle bedroom. The baseboards are all painted white, but they’re nearly impossible to remove without damage, so they’ll have to remain white. We’ve taken the trim boards off of the closet and ran them through the new planer and quarter them with polyurethane (yesterday). They look good, but now I’ve got to scrape the window frames as well. Dang. All under days work.
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.
new header, green everywhere, empty holes, cold air return vent
We came up with a plan for the living room / dining room opening. We replaced the framing with 2x6s. We bought some 2x6s from Lealta and ripped a sliver of wood off. I’ll sand, stain, and polyurethane them. They’ll be used as trim rather than adding 1x6s. I still need to fasten them. I’ll show you when I’m done.
living room trim
The baseboard 1x8s are ready now – routered, stained, and urethaned, so we put them up. Because the floor is not really level across about 24 feet (7.3m), there were adjustments needed. It turned out to be easiest to cut them into specific lengths to match the straight parts of the floor.
The rear deck post is fixed now, too.
decking screws
I finally have all I need to complete the flooring., Including the cup of coffee. No, I don’t have the nail gun yet. Still waiting. So I picked up a box of decking screws to finish mounting the proboard.