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OK, I'll fill you in on the headaches I had yesterday. So I borrowed a big box truck to pick up all the stuff I need to finish the cottage. Make a Home Depot run and that's it, I'll have everything and then it's just a matter of installing it all. But noooo, all of a sudden the one crucial piece that Home Depot used to stock is now a special order item! I found that out only after the second store I went to and 4 hours later. But I did get the following- - vanity, with countertop/sink - Delta faucet for above - good quality fiberglass walls for the shower - toilet - speedy valves, supplies, and trap for sink - flange, wax gasket, speedy valve and supply for toilet - medicine cabinet - strip light for above medicine cabinet - 3 pre-hung doors (closet, boiler room, and bathroom doors) - nice Schlage locksets for those doors - moulding kits for all three doors - base moulding for the whole place - paint for the walls and moulding (cracked wheat is the color, goes nicely with the tiles) - carpet and padding - a thermostat Earler in the day I went to the chimney store and bought a chimney with the roof flange, storm colllar and cap. Chris is supposed to come by today and install that for me, and also fix the roof on the shed and put in the roof boot for the plumbing vent. So what am I missing you ask ? The glass walls and door kit for the shower! I can't find it anywhere... And I need two 30 gallon LP gas hot water heaters. One is going to make domestic hot water and the other will be plumbed in as a mini-boiler, with a circulator pump, expansion tank, auto fill, check valve and combo gauge. I had spec'd out boilers, and the smallest one I could get was almost 5 times the size I needed, so for now I'm going to run a hot water heater as a boiler. Maybe down the road when I add a second room on to the building I'll upgrade to a boiler. A small boiler is also twice the price of two hot water heaters, and I just need to get it heated and finished so I can get a tenant in there, fast as possible. So it's all coming together. The main thing now is to get the heat working before all the pipes freeze and to get it finished! George is coming to lay the carpet next Sunday. I hope to have all the walls painted and the bathroom fixtures installed by then. Working on it a few hours every night it should be possible. OK, time to start my day, I will take pictures as I get stuff finshed and update the Garage Transformation page. This project was started last Thanksgiving, soo my goal is to have it done by this one. A year to build a small house in your spare time is not so bad. The main thing was I ran out of money and work was stopped all summer. Oh yeah, you don't want to know how much I dumped into this place so far. Probably close to 25 grand. So you see why I want to finish it and start getting a return... K, later for now. posted @ 08:30 AM EST [link] [Karma: 1 (+/-)]Killin' Bill... Damn, Grace and I went to see Kill Bill last night. I liked it, a lot !! If you dig samurai flicks or cheesy old kung-fu movies, imagine them with a Quentin soundtrack and his style of repartee... Anyway, can't wait for part 2 to come out now. Want to catch the new Texas Chainsaw as well, maybe next week. And of course, the final part of the "M" trilogy is right around the corner. OK, my warm bed and soft girlfriend are calling me, I'm gonna go crash, but I'll update with some new pics and stuff tomorrow. Been busy as hell and working my butt off around here lately. The cottage is almost done!! Yup, it's all coming together at last! I'll fill you in tomorrow. posted @ 10:07 PM EST [link] [Karma: 2 (+/-)]Trying to get into the habit again... Of posting stuff here! Just been so busy, and it's way easier to just vegetate that last waking hour in front of that other, bigger CRT that has 500 channels to choose from. But of course I watch the same dozen channels all the time so all the rest are really just fluff. So what have I been doing you may ask? Well, a lot of work on my Mom's house and even a little on the cottage here as well. At her house, she added a sun room on the back, had her kitchen and bathroom doubled in size, and tiled half the house. Problem is, after throwing the second incompetent general contractor off the job, it was all done inside, but the outside was completely unfinished... OK, so don't ask me why, but I said I'd finish it all for her. So I had to shingle the whole addition and half the front that was ripped apart, trim all the new windows, install soffit and fascia boards on the addition, and then paint the whole house. All in my spare time of course, and whilst still keeping up with the never ending and eternal renovations at my house, and oh yes, of course, still trying to finish the cottage so I can rent it out and start getting some return on all the cash I've dumped into it so far. So I find on the front of her house the sheathing is rotted in spots, so I rip it all out, skin it with new plywood and then Tyvek it. Then just do the shingles on it and it's ready for paint. You can see here the new shingles are white. Here's another shot to give you an idea of how many shingles it was (a lot!). Here's the new addition, I shingled it all and trimmed the windows, but you can see there's no fascia or soffits yet, here's the other side of it. Here's a closeup of the roof valley, without the trim on. I have to add a few shots of the addition all finished, I thought I had taken some, but I guess not. But I do have a pic of the front all painted and done. Not bad, all she needs to do is have the front walk done and plant some shrubs and of course put gutters up and the whole house is pretty much done. And I still found time to bake cookies with Sarah and Danny, which kind you ask? Oatmeal chocolate chip with walnuts of course! The only downside to enjoying candy and sweets as much as I do is this. Yup, that's me enjoying a root canal a few weeks ago! Grace and I haven't been downtown to enjoy some pho for at least a month now, so I ordered a few vietnamese coffee makers from quickspice.com so I we can enjoy a cup at home now. But I think I feel a hankering for some pho coming on... We also had a nice bonfire in my fire-pit when the kids were all up a few weeks ago and roasted marshmallows and made s'moores too! I have a bunch of wood stacked up and if I get all my scheduled projects done this weekend (one crucial one is closing the pool) we'll have another fire Sunday night. OK, that's it for me. Glad I posted a few pics and hope I didn't bore the hell outta y'all. I've had quite a few more things going on I didn't even mention. I'll post more and try and "back log" until you're all caught up on my goings on last month or two, K? aiigghht, 'nite all... posted @ 12:44 AM EST [link] [Karma: -4 (+/-)] |
