Friday May 30, 2008
Vacation 2008
Is it a vacation if your not relaxing? Well, that's my predicament right now and unfortunately a necessary one. I have SO much stuff to do around the house. First, the outside requires my attention in the following areas:
- Main & Pool Deck: Rails, step, sanding, and staining; finally skirting to stop Clover.
- Light for the BBQ.
- Fix fence (thrown posts; reset the panels) and do skirting around base.
- Chaulking around windows, etc.
- Sanding & painting veranda columns and rails.
- Paint the front & garage door.
- Fix/seal the eve troughs; that's more like a service call.
So now onto the inside... The big one is the basement but that just a bunch of jobs. I'm currently doing the bathroom downstairs. I just finished installing the in-floor heating and self-leveling compound for tile underlayment. The electrical, plumbing, drywall, and priming is all done. What remains is the electrical connection for the in-floor heating control, Ditra membrane, floor tiles, Kerdi for the shower wall, wall tiles with accent, toilet, vanity, closet door, and trim-out.
After that I have to clean the basement, boy do I have a lot of junk, xmas stuff, etc. This needs to be trucked upstairs and/or put on the storage shelves. Removal of old desk and the ever growing wood/garbage pile. Once all the junk is up in the garage, a garage sale is in order which facilitates the cleaning of my garage.
Now I have the space to finish:
- Framing: Entrance to Home Theater, boxes and I-beam inserts, kitchen/dining room stud wall (replacing garbage 2x3's), and finally sauna room.
- HVAC: Duct work abounds but most notably in the HT. Also I have to drill through brick the exhaust vents for bathroom & kitchen.
- Plumbing: Hot water connection for the kitchen; maybe for the sauna?
- Insulation: Essentially everywhere.
- Drywall
I can do all of that in the nine days remaining in my work vacation... yeah right! Well, thank God that I work for two more weeks then I'm off for three weeks vacation.... my REAL vacation.
Cheers,
Ed.
Posted by Kaoru [Family] ( May 30, 2008 12:47 PM ) Permalink | Comments[0]