Archive for the ‘Projects’ Category
Friday, August 6th, 2010
It's the most popular seat in the house, but the toilet in my main floor bathroom was a mess. The tank cover was chipped up, it used obscene amounts of water to flush, and--despite my repair attempts--it often needed the handle jiggled to stop the tank fill.
So I decided it ...
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Wednesday, June 16th, 2010
Cue the drum roll! Raise the curtain! At long last, I am pleased to reveal the completed Bungalow '23 exterior trim painting.
Did I say the paint was "completed"? Well, not quite. Even with all the major trim repainted, there will still be exterior painting for me to work on. Other ...
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Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
Okay, this one took a long time even by my ridiculously drawn-out standards. Way way back in October of 2005, when I was a newbie blogger about to mark the first anniversary of closing on this house, I bought some new house numbers. They were mission-style and I thought I ...
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Friday, May 28th, 2010
Why didn't I do this sooner?
For years I've thought it would be useful to have an entry keypad for my overhead garage door, but I assumed it wasn't possible without a new garage door opener and I never really looked into it. But when my house painters asked about accessing ...
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Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
With most of my house projects, things usually get worse before they can get better. As the exterior painting work here progresses, the pattern is the same, though this time I have other people in charge of the work.
Getting Worse
It took the painters a few days to finish the scraping ...
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