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April 27, 2006
Back Yard Clean Up
The back yard was starting to look like the city dump. They haven't had a dumpster here so the trash piled up in the back yard. We asked them to remove it because the dogs were sniffing the old mcdonalds bags, it was getting dangerously near some plants, and it was ugly!
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April 24, 2006
Stucco Second Coat
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April 22, 2006
Back View of the House
Now we can get a glimpse of what the house will look like from the back yard.
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April 21, 2006
Gutter Gaps
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April 20, 2006
The First Floor Bid
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Stucco First Coat
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Conduits for Home Electronics
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April 19, 2006
Taping the Drywall
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April 18, 2006
Mesh for Stucco
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Garage Door 3
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April 15, 2006
Master Bath Sticker
And this is some seal the put around this window and the telescoping doors.
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April 14, 2006
Garage Door 2
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Master Window Primed and Installed.
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April 13, 2006
Master Bath Window In Place
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April 12, 2006
Garage Door 1
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Bathroom window Finally Arrives!
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April 11, 2006
Benches Oiled
I went to Lowe's last night and bought a bunch of oils and stains and cloths, etc. I ended up using olive oil from the kitchen, a tip I found on the internet.
I slathered the benches with the olive oil. It took a while to soak in, but finally did. They look awesome!
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April 10, 2006
There They Are!
Not too shabby. And they are almost too heavy to pick up. He even fixed the picnic table.
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April 07, 2006
Making Our Benches
They started on our benches the next day. Unbelievably, they were also making a copy of our bench near the hot tub. And not for us.
For our benches.
And for his other bench I guess I wont let him know I know about.
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April 06, 2006
Good Grief
I was not around at all yesterday and I was gone this morning. So when I get back today, I go over to check on them and what do I see? A beautiful bench made out of ironwood.
"What is this for?," I ask.
"[Foreman]"
So they have been using this house as a work shop for other projects. That is absurd. I call the contractor, and he says he doesn't know why but that it might be because they want to keep the equipment here for when the master bath window finally comes. (It still hasn't come).
Minutes later, the foreman calls and apologizes, and says he willl make it up to me.
I say "Is is a nice bench."
"You want one?"
"I want two."
He wanted 600 dollars for them, but I refused. I agreed to pay him $300 for the pair if they built the garage door now without a day off. The garage door was something that can be built at any time since nothing needed to be done first, it was its own little section of the project. With all these delays -- we were mentioning to them that they could get that out of the way, but now I got them to agree to do it.
They did get in the door frames.
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April 01, 2006
Drywall Flashing and Door Frame Removal
Today they put on all the corner flashing of the dry wall.
Here is the living room doors framed in drywall.
They also took out the door frames. We were going to reuse some of our old doors, but decided to go ahead and get all new ones. Fitting old doors with the new door knobs could cost more than getting a new door.
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