Archive for June, 2008

Workspace

15Jun08

Yesterday finished sanding the office. Replaced some woodwork around the windows and took care of the carpetnails in the wooden floor. Today goin to look for some colors to paint, im thinking of cool natural tones with one harder accent color.

Central Air

12Jun08

Dave our airco guy came and did the nessaccery measurments and calculated we would need a 3.5 Ton cooling system. He gave us 4 basic options which means upgrades to a higher S.E.E.R. value starting from 13 SEER to 16 SEER. With a fived option for the Unico Hi-Velocity cooling system. Since the house runs on a oiltank [...]

Priority

11Jun08

After a few days in the house we have changed one of our priorities and that is that we’ll wait with remodeling the bathrooms and first install central air. We noticed this house needs central air for us to actually function and work on any project. We setup a meeting with Dave who installed central air in [...]

ToDo List

11Jun08

Pick Colors!
Remove Carpet Upstairs
Remove Carpet Basement
Paint Bedrooms
Paint Hallway
Paint Kitchen Walls
Paint Livingroom (Churchill Wheat)
Paint Diningroom
Wood Graining Diningroom
Paint Drinkingroom
Stripping, repainting Radiators (halfway)
Re-tile Fireplace
Tile Kitchen splashboards
Remove Kitchen Island
Replace cabinet hardware
Install Central Air
Install Attic Insulation R-30
Repairing/Sanding wooden floors bedrooms
Sanding wooden floors downstairs
Repair squeaky floors and stairs
Place crown molding downstairs
Remove walls Basement
Place floor in Basement
Remodel walls in Basement
Sheetrock Basement
Rewire Basement
Retile [...]

First 5 days

10Jun08

We closed on Davis June 5th , 2008. The house has a first and second floor, basement and attic. First floor has a livingroom with fireplace, a dinningroom, kitchen, a sunroom and the drinking room (the second sunroom). Second floor has 2 big bedrooms, one small and a full bathroom. Two of the bedrooms will [...]