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I have started sanding the desk I got at an estate sale for $10 to be repurposed as a phone holder and catch-all on Mushroom Might. Refinishing will begin tomorrow because I need to glue and fill some damage today.
Part tiled. Still the shower to go in, and the bath panel on before it's painted, sealed and the floors intalled
We have this ridiculous old concrete slab in our side yard -- it's where the old landing for a stairway used to be (this has been moved since the house was renovated).
Anyway, it's a huge tripping hazard in the dark and when I try to move trash cans in and out. I figure it's time to remove it. I rented a demolition hammer from Home Depot and went to work. That thing is FUN.
We have this ridiculous old concrete slab in our side yard -- it's where the old landing for a stairway used to be (this has been moved since the house was renovated).
Anyway, it's a huge tripping hazard in the dark and when I try to move trash cans in and out. I figure it's time to remove it. I rented a demolition hammer from Home Depot and went to work. That thing is FUN.
We have this ridiculous old concrete slab in our side yard -- it's where the old landing for a stairway used to be (this has been moved since the house was renovated).
Anyway, it's a huge tripping hazard in the dark and when I try to move trash cans in and out. I figure it's time to remove it. I rented a demolition hammer from Home Depot and went to work. That thing is FUN.
This is the clamp I used attach the ground wire to the antenna's tripod mount. Everything I found said to use number 8 wire or larger yet the wire sold in the stores labeled "grounding wire" was number 10 or smaller. Something didn't add up with that. I still opted for a number 8 copper wire ground.
The light/fan replacement is done. It took me until about 11pm (by which time it had gone from 150°F to 90°F in the attic) because I felt the need to rewire the outlet my computer is on -- which was in parallel off this light fixture -- to draw power off a less-used circuit.
The lighting is less than I'm used to (shadowy 180W facing the computer when I had bright 200W as general lighting) but I'll either adapt or find a way to improve upon it.
We have worked so hard on this bedroom. We took down the "cottage cheese" primered the ceiling,textured it and painted it. We thin painted the walls and as you see here Patricia installed the crown moulding. Should we refinish the hardwood floors????
The big hole to the right of the door is where a built in ironing board went. It prevented the new cabinets from being flush with the wall and had to be removed. New holes in the plaster from where wires were run for the new lights and switches.
I started moving the rocks from our front yard to the backyard. After all these years I'm tired of mowing around them.
stephon and george - loading in the appliances. Funny that I missed the cheerful hug that occured between this couple just a moment before. What a riot.
I'm not entirely sure what I'm going to do with the steps when it all gets rebuilt. There's a big chuck of the concrete top step missing, reinforcing what I suspected about the original homeowner; he was a contractor who built this home using lots of scraps and cast-offs from client sites. Broken piece of concrete? Hey, I can use that on my back porch.
At the end of day 1 the only items left are touch-up paint and hanging the awning and window flower box.
I rehabilitated an old table with paint, vinyl, and plexiglas. Now it's my spacious new sewing table! It's 9 feet long!