@qch2002 Siding / gutter repairs, chimney repairs, boiler/water heater, exterior & interior painting, bannisters, some minor electrical work, and probably a new roof on the carriage house.
- Patched most holes in great room ceiling - Installed some kitchen cabinetry - Finished new windows in kids' rooms (1 each) - Moved furniture/stuff out of bedrooms & foyer to clear painting space - Cleared trash out of the house - Spackled a few wall holes - Came up with list of tasks that people can help with - Brought back and setup all the fans (had been taken for Expo)
Yesterday all by my lonesome (it was absurdly hot):
- Cleared & swept office & tarped the floor - Scraped loose paint & bumps off the walls of the office - Cleared/gathered trash & recycling in house - Spackled more holes in walls - Cut back weed hedge that had regrown in backyard, blocking sidewalk - Rearranged dining room to make room for more sundries from other rooms - Ventilated the first, second, and third floors
Today, Aaron and I picked the paint colors for the entire house, inside and out, excluding the bedrooms. 20 colors in 33 places. I hate to admit it, but it was pretty damn tiring. It took all afternoon.
Also started spackling the rough plaster in the downstairs hallway.
Brian, Nicole, Jackie, Jackie's friends Esti & Michelle, Spencer, Andrew, Courtney, and Dave the electrician all joined me today for massive spackle party!
Dave: - Finished wiring entryway light - Wired closet light for Perry & last outlet in master bedroom - Moved outlet for washer/dryer - Ran electricity for dish washer - Started running line for porch light and porch/kitchen outlets on the same wall - Discussed additional plans for tomorrow
The rest of us: - Sanded, spackled, scraped & primed back stairs & upstairs hallway - Scraped & spackled foyer ceiling - Spackled foyer, downstairs hallway & front stairwell - Sanded office ceiling, then primed office walls & ceiling - De-thistled the backyard (oww)
Sorry I let you guys down today I was a bit too hungover. I guess I can't drink like I used to when I was younger (getting old sucks) I promise I'll make up for it tomorrow.
Sunday it was a full house again! Dave, Andy, Brian & Nicole, Jackie, Nicole's coworker Corinna, Aaron, Jason (ickybodclay @ Icrontic), and Brian's friend Adriana all came to help.
- Installed back porch light & outlet, and additional outlet in kitchen - Worked on restoring power to an outlet in the dining room - Spackled the rest of the foyer, downstairs hallway, and most of the front steps - Finished priming the edges and crown molding on the great room - Primed the rest of the back stairs - Primed half the master bedroom - Primed B&N's bedroom - Finished priming office ceiling & crown molding - Removed wallpaper & primed master bedroom closet - Installed kitchen cabinets - Purchased kitchen sink / faucet / garbage disposal - Investigated how to repair/restore exterior door into office & searched for its hardware - Disconnected all but 2 of the radiators to scrape & prime behind them - Removed the tub so Andy can tile behind it - Removed the broken radiator from the kitchen into the scrap pile in the carriage house - Cleaned garbage & drywall dust out of the kitchen - Installed network patch panel - Investigated how to install gas line for stove
Determined paint quantities for entire interior minus the bedrooms Ordered paint for the kitchen, bathrooms, and great room. Picked colors for 3/4 bedrooms.
//edit: Sometime between here and the weekend we unclogged the basement drain with CLR and picked colors for the final bedroom
Yesterday, Jonathan came up from Ohio to join Jeff, Nicole, Brian, Andy, and myself.
- Hardware store run x2 - Spackled, sanded & primed hallways and stairs more (this will take a long while) - Replaced piece of front porch steps that had warped - Continued tiling bathroom - Covered kitchen cabinets for painting - Went thru the giant pile of trim on the basement rack, moved what we needed to attic - Moved great room front radiator away from wall - Primed second half of master bedroom suite
Today it was Andy and I, then Brian and Aaron came over in the evening:
- Hardware store & grocery store runs - Spackled, sanded & primed hallways and stairs more (oh god why so much) - Painted kitchen ceiling - Cleaned up tools and messes, organized supplies, took out trash (it's a project) - Started sanding great room ceiling - Sanded the 1/4 bathroom - Finished tiling bathroom
- Scraped paint in rear stairwell behind radiator - Swept out stairwell & behind some radiators - Investigated professional services needed for the house - Scheduled chimney service quote - Took Ryder on a tour of the house improvements
- Scraped, swept, and double-primed the bottom half of the rear stairwell - Second coat of primer for the office - Started second coat of ceiling paint in kitchen - Primed the 1/4 bathroom - Cleaned up more messes in the house
The basement floor drain overflowed again.
Today marked the end of flaking paint & wallpaper in the Sullivan House. It is 100% scraped, swept, and primed (aside from wood surfaces that will be stripped).
- Installed the bathtub - Finished painting kitchen & 1/4 bathroom ceiling and taped it for wall painting - Spackle, spackle, and more spackle (rear stairs, office, entryway, and hall) - Sanded the great room ceiling - Cleaned out part of basement and removed more wires & old security system - Emptied trash
- Added second color to kitchen walls (mostly done!) - Sanded lower half of walls in stairwell - Started scraping all the primer off the hallway & foyer walls
4 Aug (Sat): Dave (electrician), Jackie, Michelle, Andy, Phil, Phil J, Dave B,
- Weeded backyard - Scraped primer from hall & foyer - Second coat of purple in kitchen - Second coat of primer in great room - Kitchen countertops cut & installed - Moved last kitchen cabinet - Started building custom end piece for countertop - Second coat primer on office ceiling - Discovered mold under back stairs - Installed kitchen fan! - Finished outlet on back porch
5 Aug (Sun): Aaron, Kati, and Phil J joined me:
- Second coat orange in kitchen - Removed tape and did touchup painting in kitchen - First coat paint on great room ceiling - Finished scraping & sanding hall/foyer primer fail - Removed drywall under back stairs and de-molded
6 Aug (Mon) Aaron, me, and Soley crew:
- Started bed construction - Removed old boiler - Second coat paint great room ceiling
Dave came last week and installed the kitchen lights and the great room fans.
11 Aug (Sat) Kati, Sarah, Aaron, Andy, and I were there! Brian and the kids joined later in the day.
- Light blue in great room, first coat - Oil primer in the downstairs hallway - Oil primer in foyer & lower stairwell - Primed downstairs hall ceiling - Worked on drainage issues in basement (another expensive problem, yay!) - Finished installing kitchen sink - Finished bathroom tiling - Mudded butler's pantry (where cabinets got moved) and spots in 1/4 bathroom - Mowed & weeded
12 Aug (Sun) Kati, Sarah, Nicole, Brian, and the kids joined me.
- Sanding & priming (second coat) kids' rooms - Oil priming top half of stairwell - Primed foyer ceiling & crown molding - Second coat light blue in great room - First and second coats dark blue in great room (minus chimney which still has issues) - Weeding yard - Cleaned bathroom for grouting - First coat of paint for bathroom ceiling
- Moved more boxes to the house - Finished grouting - Re-hung all kitchen cabinet doors - Cleaned up house and took out trash - Continued work on loft beds for the kids - Accepted deliveries
Soto, Jackie, Aaron, Kati, Norm & Spencer joined Brian, me, Perry, Kyle, and their friend Alex today
- Touchup in great room - Walls got second coat in office - Downstairs hall & foyer ceiling got 2 coats of paint - Second half of master bedroom ceiling got 2 coats of paint - Half of the bathroom walls got 2 coats of paint - Kyle's walls got 2 coats of paint - The downstairs hall got its first coat of paint (ORANGE!) - The foyer walls were sanded & primed - Scheduled kitchen floor measurement for installation - Removed wallpaper from most of upstairs hallway ceiling - Scraped & sanded south bedroom ceiling (that previously had wallpaper on it)
- Had measurement done for kitchen floor - Soley continued boiler install, including a new outdoor faucet (a line broke) - Aaron continues on the loft beds - Cleaned out the pub (dining room) - SO MUCH JUNK - Cleaned up office, kitchen, & great room - Cleaned up paper from upstairs ceiling - Took out trash - Touched up paint around office light fixture & changed lightbulbs
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- Patched most holes in great room ceiling
- Installed some kitchen cabinetry
- Finished new windows in kids' rooms (1 each)
- Moved furniture/stuff out of bedrooms & foyer to clear painting space
- Cleared trash out of the house
- Spackled a few wall holes
- Came up with list of tasks that people can help with
- Brought back and setup all the fans (had been taken for Expo)
- Moved more furniture
- Jeff came over and finished one of the front railings
- Started practicing with the heat gun on one of the bedroom doors
Monday
- Jackie & her friend Michelle primed the butler's pantry
- Aaron & I primed the great room walls & ceiling
- Cleared & swept office & tarped the floor
- Scraped loose paint & bumps off the walls of the office
- Cleared/gathered trash & recycling in house
- Spackled more holes in walls
- Cut back weed hedge that had regrown in backyard, blocking sidewalk
- Rearranged dining room to make room for more sundries from other rooms
- Ventilated the first, second, and third floors
Today, Aaron and I picked the paint colors for the entire house, inside and out, excluding the bedrooms. 20 colors in 33 places. I hate to admit it, but it was pretty damn tiring. It took all afternoon.
Also started spackling the rough plaster in the downstairs hallway.
Yesterday & today Andy's assistant Danny took care of some things:
- Finished patching great room ceiling
- Patched cracks in office ceiling
- Drywalled the quarter bathroom
Andy and I discussed our weekend plan.
Dave:
- Finished wiring entryway light
- Wired closet light for Perry & last outlet in master bedroom
- Moved outlet for washer/dryer
- Ran electricity for dish washer
- Started running line for porch light and porch/kitchen outlets on the same wall
- Discussed additional plans for tomorrow
The rest of us:
- Sanded, spackled, scraped & primed back stairs & upstairs hallway
- Scraped & spackled foyer ceiling
- Spackled foyer, downstairs hallway & front stairwell
- Sanded office ceiling, then primed office walls & ceiling
- De-thistled the backyard (oww)
The house looks way less ghetto now.
- Installed back porch light & outlet, and additional outlet in kitchen
- Worked on restoring power to an outlet in the dining room
- Spackled the rest of the foyer, downstairs hallway, and most of the front steps
- Finished priming the edges and crown molding on the great room
- Primed the rest of the back stairs
- Primed half the master bedroom
- Primed B&N's bedroom
- Finished priming office ceiling & crown molding
- Removed wallpaper & primed master bedroom closet
- Installed kitchen cabinets
- Purchased kitchen sink / faucet / garbage disposal
- Investigated how to repair/restore exterior door into office & searched for its hardware
- Disconnected all but 2 of the radiators to scrape & prime behind them
- Removed the tub so Andy can tile behind it
- Removed the broken radiator from the kitchen into the scrap pile in the carriage house
- Cleaned garbage & drywall dust out of the kitchen
- Installed network patch panel
- Investigated how to install gas line for stove
Ordered paint for the kitchen, bathrooms, and great room.
Picked colors for 3/4 bedrooms.
//edit: Sometime between here and the weekend we unclogged the basement drain with CLR and picked colors for the final bedroom
- Hardware store run x2
- Spackled, sanded & primed hallways and stairs more (this will take a long while)
- Replaced piece of front porch steps that had warped
- Continued tiling bathroom
- Covered kitchen cabinets for painting
- Went thru the giant pile of trim on the basement rack, moved what we needed to attic
- Moved great room front radiator away from wall
- Primed second half of master bedroom suite
Today it was Andy and I, then Brian and Aaron came over in the evening:
- Hardware store & grocery store runs
- Spackled, sanded & primed hallways and stairs more (oh god why so much)
- Painted kitchen ceiling
- Cleaned up tools and messes, organized supplies, took out trash (it's a project)
- Started sanding great room ceiling
- Sanded the 1/4 bathroom
- Finished tiling bathroom
- Swept out stairwell & behind some radiators
- Investigated professional services needed for the house
- Scheduled chimney service quote
- Took Ryder on a tour of the house improvements
- Second coat of primer for the office
- Started second coat of ceiling paint in kitchen
- Primed the 1/4 bathroom
- Cleaned up more messes in the house
The basement floor drain overflowed again.
Today marked the end of flaking paint & wallpaper in the Sullivan House. It is 100% scraped, swept, and primed (aside from wood surfaces that will be stripped).
- Installed the bathtub
- Finished painting kitchen & 1/4 bathroom ceiling and taped it for wall painting
- Spackle, spackle, and more spackle (rear stairs, office, entryway, and hall)
- Sanded the great room ceiling
- Cleaned out part of basement and removed more wires & old security system
- Emptied trash
- Sanded foyer & downstairs hallway ceiling
- Sanded walls in foyer / lower tower room
- Sanded rear stairwell walls
- Began priming lower tower room
- Added second color to kitchen walls (mostly done!)
- Sanded lower half of walls in stairwell
- Started scraping all the primer off the hallway & foyer walls
Dave (electrician), Jackie, Michelle, Andy, Phil, Phil J, Dave B,
- Weeded backyard
- Scraped primer from hall & foyer
- Second coat of purple in kitchen
- Second coat of primer in great room
- Kitchen countertops cut & installed
- Moved last kitchen cabinet
- Started building custom end piece for countertop
- Second coat primer on office ceiling
- Discovered mold under back stairs
- Installed kitchen fan!
- Finished outlet on back porch
5 Aug (Sun):
Aaron, Kati, and Phil J joined me:
- Second coat orange in kitchen
- Removed tape and did touchup painting in kitchen
- First coat paint on great room ceiling
- Finished scraping & sanding hall/foyer primer fail
- Removed drywall under back stairs and de-molded
6 Aug (Mon)
Aaron, me, and Soley crew:
- Started bed construction
- Removed old boiler
- Second coat paint great room ceiling
11 Aug (Sat)
Kati, Sarah, Aaron, Andy, and I were there! Brian and the kids joined later in the day.
- Light blue in great room, first coat
- Oil primer in the downstairs hallway
- Oil primer in foyer & lower stairwell
- Primed downstairs hall ceiling
- Worked on drainage issues in basement (another expensive problem, yay!)
- Finished installing kitchen sink
- Finished bathroom tiling
- Mudded butler's pantry (where cabinets got moved) and spots in 1/4 bathroom
- Mowed & weeded
12 Aug (Sun)
Kati, Sarah, Nicole, Brian, and the kids joined me.
- Sanding & priming (second coat) kids' rooms
- Oil priming top half of stairwell
- Primed foyer ceiling & crown molding
- Second coat light blue in great room
- First and second coats dark blue in great room (minus chimney which still has issues)
- Weeding yard
- Cleaned bathroom for grouting
- First coat of paint for bathroom ceiling
This morning I met with Dave the electrician & his temporary replacement Dennis to go over what electrical work remains.
Soley arrived this morning to continue work on the boiler.
- Finished grouting
- Re-hung all kitchen cabinet doors
- Cleaned up house and took out trash
- Continued work on loft beds for the kids
- Accepted deliveries
Jackie, Matt (he finally showed up!), Jason, Norm, Meghann, Kaitlynn, Spencer, Perry, Kyle, Aaron, and Jeff all came out to help today.
We got significant work done.
- Touchup in great room
- Walls got second coat in office
- Downstairs hall & foyer ceiling got 2 coats of paint
- Second half of master bedroom ceiling got 2 coats of paint
- Half of the bathroom walls got 2 coats of paint
- Kyle's walls got 2 coats of paint
- The downstairs hall got its first coat of paint (ORANGE!)
- The foyer walls were sanded & primed
- Scheduled kitchen floor measurement for installation
- Removed wallpaper from most of upstairs hallway ceiling
- Scraped & sanded south bedroom ceiling (that previously had wallpaper on it)
- Had measurement done for kitchen floor
- Soley continued boiler install, including a new outdoor faucet (a line broke)
- Aaron continues on the loft beds
- Cleaned out the pub (dining room) - SO MUCH JUNK
- Cleaned up office, kitchen, & great room
- Cleaned up paper from upstairs ceiling
- Took out trash
- Touched up paint around office light fixture & changed lightbulbs
- 2 coats of paint on office crown molding
- Edging for hallway wall paint