projects on the go
Today’s tasks are installing roof gable vents, running wiring for the new electric water heater and three outside receptacles, and putting down glue for the kitchen, hall, closets, and bathroom flooring. I only arrived here at 12 noon, so we’ll see how far I can get. It’s not 35 degrees outside today, so I won’t cook in the attic.
We’re back in the back building again. It’s being used as storage at the moment, but I’ll be starting to lay the pro board down, and hopefully things will start to take shape soon.
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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?
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.
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.
The painting continues from yesterday.
I wonder if Mrs M Parfitt has paid her balance yet.
What do you think? (This is the living room, BTW.)
It seems a no-brainer.
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:
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 urethane is almost done. Now the paint begins.
