2008 01 28

I finished the side of the panty cabinet but it looks like shit. The two boards fit up perfectly together as I biscuit jointed them together but where they meet up with the cabinet, it sticks out a tad and will drive me nuts. I will fix it later, for now it will suffice. Last Thursday night I dropped the 4x12' boards down in the attic and mounted them. Now we will be able to store about 15 bins up there.

We bought our pool table for $1200 from Pool Table King in Mira Mesa. It is not a name brand one but I could care less about that. It looks to be well made and has a 3 piece 1" slate bed which was joined together with cement like putty. It looks incredible but that of course made us change focus to that room so we got paint and put down the first coat yesterday. The second coat will go on tonight and I should also get the crown moulding on the way home and get it painted tonight.

I started to repair the hole where the split wall furnace was, but its underlayment boards that Lars put down were about 1/16" too low. I took it all apart and re-nailed them all in and now I can get all the boards cut out so I can lay down ones we saved from the old dining room floor.

Now I only have 97 things to do before our first keg party on the 23rd of Feburary...

2008 01 21

We got the garage cleaned out Friday and moved out some of the boxes and bins from the living room. On Saturday I got the bedroom doors and laundry door completed except for the polyuerethane on the laundry center door. We got more stuff moved out of the old living room and that was about it as we went out to the SD Wild Animal Park in the morning. I also got the kitchen pantry boards biscuit jointed together and am contemplating how I am going to mount them.

On Sunday I got the bedroom doors hung and the casing installed. They look great with the ORB finish on the locks, but I was able to do too much more due the AFC/NFC Championships being played. That will be good for me next weekend, no football to slow me down. This week I should get our walk-in closet more complete and some small stuff. This weekend I will continue tackling the big stuff in preperation for getting together a party the weekend after the Super Bowl, or maybe the weekend after that...

2008 01 17

I have been working on the house until about 8:00 every night this week. It would not be so bad but I wake up at 3:45 to get to work by 5:30. I have been working on the baseboards and crown moulding. Getting the putty on and sanded takes time when you have about 400 linear feet of it to do. It looks way better now and will look perfect when it gets its final coat of paint. I got half of the threshold down going into our new bathroom and started cleaning up the whole area doing all the small finish stuff.

Today I am stopping on the way home to get more brad nails to finish off some of the kitchen and double vanity strips to cover gaps where the cabinetry meets the flooring or walls. I am also getting 3 more sticks of 3/4" PVC to run a water line to the jacuzzi for quick fill ups. I may as well since I have the hole open still where Gary and I ran the electrical line.

This weekend I should finish up a lot of small stuff like the mouldings and finally get the doors polyurethane coated so I can hang them and gets the casings on around the doors. Hopefully we can decide to hang more stuff up on the base walls and Megan can get the old living room cleaned out. Then we can finally finish off that room and get the old furnace hole covered up with the hardwood I pulled up and saved.

2008 01 13

Gary came over this weekend so I did not get much done, as far as what was on my list. We did however get the jacuzzi hooked up and it works great. I still need to cleanup the wiring in the box and fill back in the 33' trench we had to dig to run the new 6 gauge wire. I tied it into the junction box I had Lars put in on the north side of the house and then out to a box Gary bolted to the block wall next to the jacuzzi. After over a year of being disconnected, it will be nice to finally use again. Friday night we got the DVD cabinets built and filled them up. We will need to buy another one as I have 400 or so more to put in there. Gary took our old bed so we can now use that room as an exercise room and for guests to sleep in. Now we just gotta buy a fouton.

2008 01 09

Last night I got the granite sealer completed in the new bathroom and also completed more of the caulking in the kitchen due to ants. Had I done it before the cabinets went in... it would have been a whole lot easier. Tonight I should be done with grouting the north set of living room stairs and some touch up grout in the kitchen. That leaves very little as far as large stuff goes, leaving a mountian of small stuff which I hope to accomplish in the next couple weeks. That way we will be able to have a party the week after the Super Bowl.

2008 01 07

I got a new fan for the computer as the old processor fan was just way too loud. It is super quiet and adjustable with a knob on it. It does a better job of cooling and with the Dynamat in the cabinet the computer is also much quieter. Eventually I will need to add another fan as the hard drives are too warm. Seperating them shoud also help as they are running at about 125 degrees F.