Day 17: House of Invisible Progress
Did a lot today, but nothing to take a picture of. We finished:
1st coat on the hallway baseboards & doorframes.
1st coat on the guest room b&d.
2nd coat on the hobby room b&d.
2nd coat on the master bedroom b&d.
Which means we're one coat of paint away from meeting our Friday deadline of having the three upstairs bedrooms completely finished so the carpet can be installed. Of course we also have to:
1. Paint the ceilings in the bedrooms (this should really be done before the carpet installation, since 'popcorn' ceilings drip a bit when you paint them).
2. Cut in the unpainted parts of the hallway, living room, and kitchen/dining room ceilings.
3. Paint baseboards in living room, foyer, kitchen, dining room, and laundry room.
4. Put down new flooring in laundry room.
That sounds like a week's work, hunh? In addition to having the carpet installed, we're having a guy come out to look at the roof and give us an estimate on replacing it (so we know how many years we have to wait to do it) and on framing out and extending the roof over the deck, so we can screen it in. We're also having someone come out and look at the A/C.
Speaking of which... We were late starting today, because we got to the house and found the garage floor once again full of water. It seems that when we finally managed to clean the gunk out of the drain pipes, we simply moved the gunk into the pump intake that sends the condensation down the tube that leads to the back yard. The pump had apparently run all night and not pumped a bit of water out, and was now overflowing. Fixing this involved pouring more bleach into the system, reaching into the pump and scraping out caked layers of algae and other crud (the water, when it finally came out, was brown) and clearing the intake by putting the end of the drain hose in my mouth so I could BLOW real hard, creating a clear enough passage for the pump to SUCK the water out and send it back through.
Lea's sentiment, which I agree with, is that it would be better if the a/c would just die so we could use our home warranty to get it replaced.
Mom came by today and gave us a hand. There was candlewax stuck to the mantle on the fireplace, so the plan was to have her iron it off. She discovered, though, that the top layer of ugly brown paint just peeled right off, and she spent the rest of the day scraping it off the mantle so we have a nice, off-white layer to paint over instead. Thanks, Mom!!
One last thing.. I found an unpainted stretch of one of the doorframes. The moulding in the house? It was originally white. Someone chose to paint them brown. They did it to us on purpose.
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