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Week 5 |
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| Week five is actually two weeks after I was supposed to be completely finished the kitchen, but plans got bigger as the paradigm of things which were "impossible" or at least "not within the realm of my abilities" shifted. I was also constantly goaded along by Amy who keeps adding to the plan. |
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| Amy showed up Saturday at 9:00 a.m. with the coolest toolbox I've ever seen. (Not that I'd ever noticed toolboxes before.) | The days plans involved patching holes in the plaster. This hole was left when the original ceiling light was installed. I'd replaced it with track lights a few months ago. | This plaster hole was left when I ripped out a baseboard to fit the dishwasher in. It's been slowly dribbling plaster dust onto the floor and annoying me. |
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| I'd been borrowing Jon Stromer-Galley's belt sander for a year and he needed it back to do his own floor. It was time to get my own. So off to Home Depot. | After a splendid time tool shopping, Amy primed the ceiling. | And I got the new electrical cabling out of the way. |
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| Amy has a very fun DeWalt cordless drill. I have such tool envy around that woman, it's a amazing. Anyhoo, Home depot had 6 volt cordless screwdriver/drills for $19.95 -- at that price, I couldn't not buy one. It came in so very handy. |
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| While the primer on the ceiling dried, I scraped a bit more adhesive off of the floor in the laundry room. Amy has forbidden me to tile over it, as had been my plan. | Would you believe that Amy did not like my range hood? When we took it out it fell down onto the stove and exploded in a shower of sparks. If it didn't need replacing before, it does now. | A collection of very manly drill bits useful for many purposes. Such as drilling pilot holes for the hanging rails. |
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| Back to belt sanding the floor. | Then when Amy's plaster patch had dried, I smoothed it out with the random orbit palm sander. | This collection of wires hanging from the wall has always driven me nuts. It's the power for the telephone and the phone cord. Amy added getting rid of this unsightly mess to the days plan as a matter of course. It seemed reasonable enough. |
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| I made hanging rails out of shelving racks which I screwed into the ceiling joists. It will be covered in the front by a sofit. | Unsightly wires gone! both the power for the telephone and the phone cord itself I moved into the basement. | The unfinished telephone wiring now in the rafters of the basement going up through a pre-existing hole in the laundry room. My grandfather would have trimmed the wires. I'm lucky enough to cable tie the excess. Baby steps. |
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| Monday night found me belt sanding the laundry room and -- to my great joy, shop-vacing behind it. that space had never been cleaned. I got up some of the trouble spots in the kitchen, there are still quite a few that need heavy handed attention, and then went over them with 100 grit on the random orbit sander. |
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| Time for a break. | Monday Morning of week five. Apart from the fact that the fridge is still in the living room, the floor is unfinished and the lights are missing, the kitchen is nearly useable. The radio enjoys its own power at least. Oh yeah, and the hanging rail works. | I was feeling lazy Tuesday night so instead of sanding the floor I rewired this mogul lamp which had been sitting in the foyer for two years waiting for some attention. |
