The major improvements we've made to or overseen for the house are many, and we've got a lot of folks to thank for helping us make all of it possible. How cool! It's been pretty crazy, and it's great that family and friends have been involved in a lot of it.
-Replaced 75% of the plumbing in the house.
-Replaced 75% of the electrical in the house.
-Updated electrical service from 100amps to 200amps.
-Changed all the locks in the house, including the garage.
-Replaced the hot water heater.
-Removed old stone-lined boiler tank from the basement.
-Removed corroded oil-heated hot water tank from the boiler.
-Installed fire switch for the boiler.
-Cleared longstanding main drainpipe clog.
-Removed moldy wash room walls in the basement.
-Installed peg board in the basement.
-Demolished and removed concrete basin.
-Replaced washer and drier.
-Landscaped front yard.
-Retiled half-bathroom floor.
-Made curtains (see next post).
-Painted living and dining rooms, half-bathroom, half the basement, stairwells.
-Installed overhead fan in master bedroom.
-Replaced four screens.
-Removed front screen door and fireplace cover.
-Removed and covered attic skylight.
-Installed vent for upstairs bathroom.
Thanks so much to everyone for your continued support! Today we finished some interior painting and made some additions to the firewood storage area.
It may not seem like such a job, but we did have to dig up a bunch of mostly buried bricks from the side of the house.
On top of that, we began pondering the location of the backyard compost pile and garden. Maybe the compost pile will go against the concrete behind these mocked-up garden beds. Still scratching our heads a little, but we'll get there, since having this garden will be a dream come true.
Happy Saturday!
PS
There's a secret surprise in one of these pictures. Can you find it?
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No I cannot.
Enlarge the top picture. Can you see it now?
I just added up all the receipts we've got in hand, including those for tools, tiles, paint, contractor services, a chair, a couch, a dining room table and benches, appliances, fixtures, new locks, garage door remote controls, buckets of spackle, RotoRooting, recycling bins, a fiberglass slop sink, grass seed, a wet vac, several sheets of plywood, a maple tree, two door mats, a 42-piece peg board hook set, and all the rest. Best estimate totals to $12,044.
Now if only that darn real estate market would hit bottom, we could be pretty sure we'd recoup it all at a later date.
Oops, forgot about the new dining room overhead fan (not yet installed) and our bathroom light fixtures... $12,487.
I found it! SECRET CAT! Do I get a prize?
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