Monday, March 20, 2006
New TownHouse Renovation - Day 20 (3.16.06)
Thursday:
Goals: Finish the last rows of hardwood flooring, lay concrete backerboard, paint.
Pics: Day 20 Photos
Thursday was only 4 days ago as I write this, and it seemed fresh in my mind up until about Friday morning, so luckily we have pictures to remind us of what we did.
I leave work and start off by laying the last 2 rows of hardwood flooring. We needed to wait until we got the cabinets installed in order to do this. Now that they are done, and the backerboard is ready to be installed, I needed to finish this up. This required laying down another full row, measuring the last row and table sawing it to fit. This was pretty easy, and really satisfying to finally see that strip of flooring done. It had become a nuisance and an eyesore because the unfinished edge was a trapping area for dust, dirt, plastic covering and other assorted nastiness. I did this and Rena showed up at the tail end of it.
We proceeded to work together to place the concrete backerboard on the floor so we could cut/break it to size. We whipped this out pretty quickly so it was on to mixing mortar and then to laying the board.
The drill mixing attachment that we bought was too big for our drill, so we ended up having to mix the mortar by hand. What a treat. We took turns mixing and finally got it to a consistency that was usable. I should also note that it is still ass cold in California this week, so I finally got the shut off valve from the HD the other day and attempt to install so we can get some heat. The "standard" cooktop range shut off valve that we bought is by no means standard. It is way too big for the gas pipe. So we spend another night shivering.
I lay the backerboard pretty quickly and then attach about 3 million screws to the stuff to secure it to the floor. While I am doing this, Rena is painting the upstairs bedroom our bright shade of yellow. This is one of those things that looked good on the paint card, but seems kind of intense in a real life wall application. I finish up downstairs and head up to help Rena. We are excited to actually get something done in the upstairs, since we haven't touched it in a couple of weeks.
Mood: better. The place is actually starting to look like a home to us. When we first were shown ole' JP (Jefferson Place?? nah.) It looked like a million other shitty apartments. And now at least the downstairs is starting to look like a place where we will feel comfortable.
Tomorrow: Prime upstairs ceilings, paint upstairs walls.
Goals: Finish the last rows of hardwood flooring, lay concrete backerboard, paint.
Pics: Day 20 Photos
Thursday was only 4 days ago as I write this, and it seemed fresh in my mind up until about Friday morning, so luckily we have pictures to remind us of what we did.
I leave work and start off by laying the last 2 rows of hardwood flooring. We needed to wait until we got the cabinets installed in order to do this. Now that they are done, and the backerboard is ready to be installed, I needed to finish this up. This required laying down another full row, measuring the last row and table sawing it to fit. This was pretty easy, and really satisfying to finally see that strip of flooring done. It had become a nuisance and an eyesore because the unfinished edge was a trapping area for dust, dirt, plastic covering and other assorted nastiness. I did this and Rena showed up at the tail end of it.
We proceeded to work together to place the concrete backerboard on the floor so we could cut/break it to size. We whipped this out pretty quickly so it was on to mixing mortar and then to laying the board.
The drill mixing attachment that we bought was too big for our drill, so we ended up having to mix the mortar by hand. What a treat. We took turns mixing and finally got it to a consistency that was usable. I should also note that it is still ass cold in California this week, so I finally got the shut off valve from the HD the other day and attempt to install so we can get some heat. The "standard" cooktop range shut off valve that we bought is by no means standard. It is way too big for the gas pipe. So we spend another night shivering.
I lay the backerboard pretty quickly and then attach about 3 million screws to the stuff to secure it to the floor. While I am doing this, Rena is painting the upstairs bedroom our bright shade of yellow. This is one of those things that looked good on the paint card, but seems kind of intense in a real life wall application. I finish up downstairs and head up to help Rena. We are excited to actually get something done in the upstairs, since we haven't touched it in a couple of weeks.
Mood: better. The place is actually starting to look like a home to us. When we first were shown ole' JP (Jefferson Place?? nah.) It looked like a million other shitty apartments. And now at least the downstairs is starting to look like a place where we will feel comfortable.
Tomorrow: Prime upstairs ceilings, paint upstairs walls.
# posted by Tony Starr @ 11:52 AM 
