Comments (0) So I learned something new today. I learned how to cope. (if that’s what they call it).
Fred and I worked mainly on baseboards for the day and now we have most of the first floor done, except for a little built-out piece that’s going to go on the bottom of the baseboards. It’s looking much more elegant in the main area of the house now.
More pictures coming soon.
Well Bernie’s getting a bit of a bad rap around here. It’s been a few times now he hasn’t shown up when he said he would, and it’s been hot again and we still don’t have our air conditioner going.
Fred, however, showed up this morning and we started working on some door casings. We got almost all the main floor door casings and backbands on and Fred’s coming back tomorrow for doing a little more trim. Hopefully we’ll get some of the baseboards done and get the first floor looking more finished than it is.
Here’s the back door with casings:
So… it’s a day off from solar panels and so both Fred and Bernie are coming here to do some work. We’ll have some updates and some pictures when it’s done, but we should have A/C working by tomorrow night and maybe some door frames and baseboards.
Today I put a dimmer on the back room and connected up the plug outside the back door so we have the light working in the BBQ. Exciting stuff!
Our lumber arrived yesterday – baseboards and door casings. This afternoon I started priming them outside, but realized quickly that the rain was coming.
We moved everything to the 3rd floor where we could work protected from the elements.
I’m up late painting in the confined space of the back room. Lots of pieces of wood around, drying and getting prepped for painting.
Yesterday I took a trip to Central Fairbank Lumber up on Steeles, who, I’ve been told, are the Toronto specialists in trim. When I got there and talked to the sales rep I realized it was very true. They guy I dealt with was great and gave me a lot of good ideas. I placed an order for the main floor trim including all the baseboards, windows and doorframes.
I also ordered extra subfloor so we can level the 3rd floor before putting down more hardwood.
It’s possible this weekend we could finally finish off some of the electrical work. Fred might come by and we’ll do some of the trim. It does need to be primed and painted first, but we should be able to do that also.
Got a bit of time on my hands these days due to some total lunacy. Long, insane story.
We’ve decided to take on some of the 3rd floor so yesterday I went out and got tiles and a toilet for the
3rd floor bathroom.
Last night I finished up some painting in the 3rd floor hallway and stair area in the same colour as the second floor. Today I tackled some of the floor of the bathroom. As you can see from the photo I came up 3 tiles short. Lots of spare pieces around, but with the big tiles you definitely need to get extra.
We’re excited for the kitchen countertops to come tomorrow. We’re also sharing a bin with our neighbours over the weekend to remove our concrete pile from the back of the house.
Yesterday and today we spent some time prepping for the kitchen which, we hope, is arriving tomorrow morning. We went and got some more main floor wall paint (Carolina Strand) as well as tiles for the main floor bathroom.
Yesterday was mostly painting. We put a first coat on the bathroom walls as well as primed and painted the outside of the pocket door. We’re also continuing to take care of our new front lawn. It looks so far like it’s taking, except for a couple pieces.
Today was a busy day. We started by adding a second coat to the bathroom as well as the pocket door drywall. We then moved the kitchen out of the way to make room for the incoming kitchen as well as allow us to put a coat of paint over the west wall, something we hadn’t done yet. It will be mostly covered by the counters and cabinets but we thought it would be good to get it done before they arrived.
Then we moved on to tiling. We found these cool tiles at Olympia Tile called Tropical Grass Brown. We laid these in the bathroom as well as the little room beyond. Check out the picture of it – looks a little rough still, but a little grout and cleaning and it’ll be great.
Hopefully this will be our last night without a kitchen, but we’ll see. Check back tomorrow and I’ll blog whether Ed has arrived or not.
Comments Off I’ve finally put up some new pictures with the hardwood floor pictures on it. Fred and I worked on getting the hardwood all the way from the back of the house to half way down the kitchen. We’ve had to disassemble the sink unit to get the hardwood in but the fridge is back in place, on top of the hardwood.
Fred came over late in the day on Friday and cleaned up some bad plastering I had done on the bulkhead and kitchen closet and put another coat on. It’s looking better now.
This morning we got delivery of some tiles and flooring we ordered over the weekend. It’ll be nice to see some progress on the floor of the main room.
Fred has been doing a lot of little bits and pieces on the second floor finishing up trim work as well as bullnoses for stairs and such.
John, (HVAC) is coming over on Friday to get some more first floor heating going. It has been so brutally cold out and our main floor has been hovering around 13-14C. We also don’t want to install the hardwood floors without getting the main room up to temperature so the planks don’t shrink.
We’ve heard from Ed Calder and he’s building away at our kitchen and needs some sizes for our stove and dishwasher. We’ve found a few things we like at The Brick but are checking out this place called BuyDirect tonight, which is a club type thing where you can buy direct from the manufacturer. We’ll see how that goes.
Although Melinda has not been well this week, today we went out for late breakfast at Vesta then went over to New Canadians and looked at some tiles and hardwood and picked up some door trim and baseboards as well as two doors for the main floor. When we got home Melinda slept more while I primed the trim we bought as well as did a few other house tasks.
I also talked to Fred and he’s going to come later this week and start to do some more things around the house.
We’re excited to be moving forward again.
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