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House Progress
Aug. 20th, 2011 07:57 amWe were six, in the end, working on the house, and we made some excellent progress. The painter had done the front door (courtesy the home-owner who said it looked like it could use a job of paint and real estate agent, why don't you please take care of that?) so the front door was open.
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laiv had just walked inside and found Lanzaned and me upstairs working on the first bedroom, and he dived right in. By the time my mother and Luc arrived we were quite hungry, but mom brought bread and cheese and soup and candy so it was all pretty much perfect.
My mother had, at my request, brought gardening tools. The "path" (pretty much just a few stepping stones) had been overgrown and I could no longer get to the shed, where at this point we just store the big trash they need to come pick up. What I had not expected was that the gardening tools they brought were a gift!
By the time mom was pretty much done in the garden, she'd completely excavated the path, made some fifteen trash bags full of unwanted stuff growing wildly, found a lovely red-flowering unknown plant that now has air and light again, and pretty much saved the day, plant-wise.
( Time for some pictures: )
Meanwhile, Luc had found the list of things to be done on the kitchen cupboard and silently stalked off to the nearby Karwei to pick up some things. And then he went back a couple of more times just to get it right. And then he quietly installed everything.
He's a sneaky bastard who will fix up your house if you're not watching him.
Lanzaned and I had taped plastic all over the attic room's floor and we helped Laiv with the main bedroom's ceiling where we were removing the whitewash and part of the hardboard so we can start over on that ceiling. Lanzaned also painted the ceiling in bedroom #2 and did a second coat of paint in the evening, telling us it needed a third coat if we wanted to have it perfect.
In the livingroom, Luc had removed the screws from the spots and let them dangle by their electricity cords, and had painted the raw wood that was underneath. Verdict from the painter was: "It's latex, so you don't need to sand it, just add another coat of latex over it."
Mmmmmokay. Will do.
We filled the holes in the livingroom walls, the part where electricity cords were just coming out of the walls were filled up partially, awaiting a second layer later. And I made a start of painting the heating pipes, so they could be camouflaged in white next to the white walls.
Mom removed fungi from the second fridge that was stored in the shed, and she tried to fix the rainpipe but it was clogged so I need to call the owner and have them send a plumber. Lanzaned cleared the gunk off the flat roof after the water had drained into the garden. We ate some fries from the cafetaria around the corner and sat with eachother for a while before continuing into the evening.
Around nine pm I was so tired I was nearly seeing cross-eyed, and we started clearing away the tools, grabbing the trash bag and keys, closing the now dried front door and signing off. Laiv drove off with a (hopefully working) pretty good brand fridge, recently defungified by my mother. NoKey and I dropped off Lanzaned and when I got home I didn't even bother with all that silly "personal hi-gene" stuff and just dropped into bed.
laiv had just walked inside and found Lanzaned and me upstairs working on the first bedroom, and he dived right in. By the time my mother and Luc arrived we were quite hungry, but mom brought bread and cheese and soup and candy so it was all pretty much perfect. My mother had, at my request, brought gardening tools. The "path" (pretty much just a few stepping stones) had been overgrown and I could no longer get to the shed, where at this point we just store the big trash they need to come pick up. What I had not expected was that the gardening tools they brought were a gift!
By the time mom was pretty much done in the garden, she'd completely excavated the path, made some fifteen trash bags full of unwanted stuff growing wildly, found a lovely red-flowering unknown plant that now has air and light again, and pretty much saved the day, plant-wise.
( Time for some pictures: )
Meanwhile, Luc had found the list of things to be done on the kitchen cupboard and silently stalked off to the nearby Karwei to pick up some things. And then he went back a couple of more times just to get it right. And then he quietly installed everything.
He's a sneaky bastard who will fix up your house if you're not watching him.
Lanzaned and I had taped plastic all over the attic room's floor and we helped Laiv with the main bedroom's ceiling where we were removing the whitewash and part of the hardboard so we can start over on that ceiling. Lanzaned also painted the ceiling in bedroom #2 and did a second coat of paint in the evening, telling us it needed a third coat if we wanted to have it perfect.
In the livingroom, Luc had removed the screws from the spots and let them dangle by their electricity cords, and had painted the raw wood that was underneath. Verdict from the painter was: "It's latex, so you don't need to sand it, just add another coat of latex over it."
Mmmmmokay. Will do.
We filled the holes in the livingroom walls, the part where electricity cords were just coming out of the walls were filled up partially, awaiting a second layer later. And I made a start of painting the heating pipes, so they could be camouflaged in white next to the white walls.
Mom removed fungi from the second fridge that was stored in the shed, and she tried to fix the rainpipe but it was clogged so I need to call the owner and have them send a plumber. Lanzaned cleared the gunk off the flat roof after the water had drained into the garden. We ate some fries from the cafetaria around the corner and sat with eachother for a while before continuing into the evening.
Around nine pm I was so tired I was nearly seeing cross-eyed, and we started clearing away the tools, grabbing the trash bag and keys, closing the now dried front door and signing off. Laiv drove off with a (hopefully working) pretty good brand fridge, recently defungified by my mother. NoKey and I dropped off Lanzaned and when I got home I didn't even bother with all that silly "personal hi-gene" stuff and just dropped into bed.
