Cleaning Day
Liz, working in the living room, stuffing rope insulation between the flooring and drywall.
Detail view of the work. This stuff has a strong odor (it smells like a Pirate’s locker room), but does dissipate. Eventually.
Posts Tagged "office"
Office Cleanup
Spent tonight picking up the front office. I relocated all of the materials/tools, picked up some of the extra Ram Board, and cleaned off the dining room table legs and chairs.
Those things were pretty coated with dust, and haven’t seen the light of day in a while. So I mostly just put on a podcast or two, and hunkered down to do some cleaning by hand.
Cold Prep: Insulating the Office Closets and Window
There’s a cold snap coming in, with a few days of pretty frigid temps. They start overnight, so my plan today was to seal up our closet doors in the front office… as well as the recently demo-ed window.
Office Door and Window Install, Demo
Lucky news for us – despite the oncoming cold (and a bit of snow on the ground), our window and door guy was willing to stop by to install our upstairs balcony door and windows.
We’ve got a few older (read: super leaky) windows and doors in the upstairs office. We’re replacing some of the windows with newer, recreated versions – as well as a new door to the upper balcony.
Working Downtown, Post-Work Errands, Returning to the Floors
With the workers coming back today, to address the various issues we found… Liz and I couldn’t stay home. So we did what we used to do in the old days – head downtown, to work onsite at our respective offices.
Flooring Issues
Some unfortunate news. When we got back yesterday and unloaded the car, after being away for a few weeks… we found our floors in a less than ideal state than we had hoped.
Floor Box
The end goal is to have this box flush with the first layer of plywood, and to ultimately have a section of the actual floor serve as a kind removable cover. Something like this.
Building a Box
This is me, trying to build a custom box for an electrical outlet that’s going to be submerged into our floor.
Floorboards and Custom Cuts
We’ve got a bit of work to do in the main bedroom. There’s a light in the dining room (on the first floor) that we want to relocate, and the easiest way to do that is to go through the floor from up here.
Upstairs Drywall, Day 5: Sanding, Primer
Expecting a mess today, with a lot of drywall dust in the air from sanding. Woke up early to try to get things covered up as best we can.
Lower Stair Work
While I was at Home Depot early this AM, I opted to buy a handsaw (something we actually didn’t have at home). This ended up being the right tool for the job. Just a bit more elbow grease than anticipated.
New Office Lights
Exciting day today – we have our electrician in, and he’s putting in the main light in our office space.
Office Drywall: Day 4
On walking in, we were just amazed. And giggling an awful lot.
Office Drywall: Day 3
The room is prepped, and ready to be sanded, primed, and painted.
Office Drywall: Day 2
Progress and aftermath.