weekend warrior

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painted the hallway (60% done)
floored the 2 bedrooms (90%)
hung up drape bars in 3 rooms (85%)
disposed of ALL the carpet and tack strips (99%)

Had a new plumber over today- to unclog a drain and to check on the water heater. Cost me about $110 but I got my money's worth. Don't have to buy a new water heater now and he fixed my garbage disposal also ($200 value!) So, thats good.

Not sure what is going to happen with my garage. I'll have to check with the county and see what they need me to do. It may be a humongous deal (tearing down walls and pouring concrete) or it may be a small deal (make sure all the walls are structurally sound and have insulation). I'll keep you posted.

Need to fax my new engineer the violation papers and fax the insurance company receipts for my AC and electrical, neither of which I have yet....

Have to open all the boxes of laminate tonight, and started tearing up the rest of the carpet. Hall done, bedroom 3/4 done (my humongo bed is in the way), started on the living room also. Bought white and yellow paint last night- need to finish baseboards and hallway.

I'm having some trouble disposing of all the carpet. I just have too dang much of it and losing my garbage can isn't helping.

someone stole my garbage can. =(

my home insurance is going to be canceled if i don't get some paperwork to the insurance company.

my water heater seemed to be okay today.

knobby

I installed a new door handle and dead bolt lock on my front door. I will purchase another one to match from Home Depot for the dance room door.

If you know me at all, you know that pretty much any decision I make is going to take a long time. So I went to Home Depot with my friend to pick out a door handle and there are a lot of options. I really want something simple looking, not too crazy or expensive, but I want to check out all my options before I commit too. My friend is like 'You like that one? Just buy it' but I wasn't ready yet. So I finally chose, and I knew I needed a second door lock set but I didnt have a coupon on hand so I decided against it. Again traditional male wisdom from my friend- he tells me how much he hates having to go back to the store. But, I know how much I hate spending money I don't have to and anyway, I'm going to have to go back soon for other things. So I just bought the one.

All this because my door handle decided to give up. It was doing fine until I came home last Thursday and the handle had been pulled out from where the lock was. Luckily the drywall guy in the garage was able to pick the lock to open the door. I don't know if that is relieving or scary. I try not to think about it. Then when I left Sunday the entire door knob came off in my hand. I thought I would try to put it back on - I did- and see if it would lock/unlock - it didn't. In fact, my key got stuck in the door knob. So I pulled the whole thing off and threw it inside and then went to buy a new one.



Emily's freshly pained room





Critical Mass painting supplies

Need to buy :
more yellow
more white
bath vanity
another set of door knobs

Emily's family finished painting her room- it looks great! All the carpet and padding is out of her room also.

Dropped by Lowes today to return the underlayment, and pick up the (correct) moisture barrier. Flooring Sunday. Will have to finish painting this week!

painted Alan's room!




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stop work order

Home Depot was here working in the garage. The AC inspector came. The flooring guys came (they did not get my message about not coming til Tuesday). Septic guy is outside working right now (needs to make the drain field a little bit bigger).

The inspector (from the county) said that I do not have a permit for my garage conversion and put in a stop work order. So now I have to deal with getting a permit for the garage (which the previous owner obviously neglected) and then I will have to pay the fines that the previous owner racked up because he did not pull a permit. Not sure how long it will take but Reynold jumped right on it and sent a bunch of emails. Home Depot called and said to call the title company and they should handle it. I hope so. So, the garage will not be finished for a while longer as well as pushing back the flooring also.

I am hoping to get some painting/sanding/carpet-business done today. Alan may come over later to being the painting project in his room.

Update: I'm having some people over to paint tomorrow. I finished everything in Alan's room (sanding, cleaning the walls, and making sure all the holes were filled, swept the floor) except for inside the window frame there are some holes. I cleaned the 2nd bath shower, pulled some weeds outside (like a drop in the bucket really), sanded some of the second room, cleaned the baseboards in my bedroom, cut up the carpet in Emily's room so I can properly dispose of it. Sunday Emily and her dad will be over to paint her room.

vanity

forgot to ring Lowes today about the wood, but I stopped by the other Lowes to return one of the laminate boxes that was bashed when I bought it and to pick up the remainder of the moisture barrier. I realized the barrier they gave me is different from what I picked up last time (quite different) which was underlayment- they do different jobs. So apparently they gave me the wrong thing last time. So now I must return to Lowes tomorrow and get the right thing.

Septic guys were here today- my yard is all torn up. They need to get some sort of inspection tomorrow and then they will finish up. Also, they put caution tape around my yard, which creeped me out when I first came home! haha. I also got my recycle bins today- woot!



Tomorrow Home Depot will be here to prep the garage too. They spec'd out the ugliest vanity. (on the left)


I am thinking more like one of the 2 below.

renovations getting done

wood flooring delivered and is currently sitting in the garage

laminate flooring picked up and sitting in the living room


Home Depot will be here Thursday to do the dry wall in the garage etc.

Septic will be here tomorrow

Wood flooring will be installed next Tuesday

Laminate will be installed this weekend

Picked up paint from Home Depot for the extra 2 rooms

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there was a wasps nest inside the outdoor light- very minimal surprise- so the electrician was not able to replace that light. That being said, we did go on a wasp killing spree (BEWARE Wasps!) and took down a whole bunch of them the next day. Also the electrician needs to put in a new breaker cause the one he put in, he didn't take into account the new AC system.

Also, the wood Lowes delivered isnt the same size as the wood I picked out- they sent 3 inch wide when I asked for 5 inch wide. Will ring tomorrow. (edit: I was wrong- I did choose the 3 inch and thought I wanted 5 inch but spoke to the flooring lady at Lowes and she told me why 3 inch is better. I also returned that outside light and bought some flooring supplies)

electrical saturday morning
flooring delivered friday between 12-4pm
no final word on septic yet

ill set up with home depot when i get back in town

housesitting!

My brother and I built the desk - it took about 3.5 hours to finish but we got it all done. Talk about accomplishment. Also, I went through heck to get this desk in the first place!

Bought the desk online; borrowed my neighbors truck to pick it up; got it home; had to ask a friend to come help drag it into the house; decided i didn't like the color; had the electrician put it back in the truck; waited 30 minutes at the store for them to figure out how to exchange the purchase; drive the new desk home; drag the 170 pound desk and maybe 100 pound hutch out of the truck alone this time; drive the truck back to Lakeland; the truck broke down on the highway; get a tow back to Lakeland (this was probably the funniest part because my neighbor is crazy and drove his friend out to help tow the truck).

Still have the hutch to build, which shouldnt take nearly as long.

My brother is housesitting while I am out of town for the week- someone had to let the contractors in, and I'm sure Alan didn't want to drive back and forth. The central air is now installed and all done. The electric guy just needs to replace the light holder outside and install the good one on the old light also.

done:
AC
plumbing
electrical

to do:
flooring (garage) (early next week- delivery maybe Friday)
septic (drainfield installed this week probably)

Laminate inthe rest of the house will be next weekend.