Spring Love

Last week and over the weekend we painted most of the kitchen built-in, cleaned the laundry room, unpacked more boxes, and raked some leaves in the front yard. I’ll post a built-in pic when we finish the last bit.

In the meanwhile we discovered a lonely daffodil at the very back of our garden. As you can also see, the background shows the grass still being covered in leaves. This coming up week is supposed to bring warmer weather, so I hope to be able to do some yard work this weekend and get the garden ready for more spring flowers!

Daffodil

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Let There Be Pressure

Wednesday, February 14th – Valentine’s Day

Gus and Jim were back to do some work. And though they’re not plumber’s they helped us fix a plumbing problem. We’ve had water pressure issues for a while, and that morning the water pressure was so bad we had trouble getting the soap off our bodies. This was worse than hotel water pressure!

This is the water pressure we got on the “massage” setting. When we raised the issue some weeks ago, the plumber thought we could take out the anti-scalding device to fix the problem. After asking about going into the shower head to take out a gasket he said “they make it so you can’t do that anymore.”

Bathroom shower head

Jim took off the shower head and voila – off came this little devil piece. Look at the hole our water had to squeeze through! We threw that right on in the trash, and oh my god I can actually wash the shampoo out of my hair again!

Bathroom shower head

Thursday, February 15th

Gus and Jim installed the shelves for the bathroom built-in, finished the top off with some crown molding, and put some wood on the floor so that we won’t have to put things on the dirty unfinished hardwood that were there before. Now it looks more matching.

Linen closet

They also put little window ceils in the laundry room.

Laundry windowsill

And built us a nice shelf by the washer and dryer, measured and fit perfectly for our Sam’s Club sized laundry detergent.

Laundry shelf

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More Progress

Our new guest bed arrived!

Assembling guest bed

Gus and Jim came back to work on a few things…

…building shelves for the medicine cabinet.

Medicine cabinet shelves

…tearing out part of the bath built-in to access the plumber’s screw-up and pulling back the faucets so that they don’t stick out.

Shower faucet

…making the bathroom window even (one part was higher than the other due to the Durock).

Bathroom window molding

…building shelves for the kitchen built-in.

Butler's pantry v-groove

Meanwhile, later on that night…

…we were busy priming the kitchen built-in.

Painting butler's pantry

What do you do on a Tuesday night? Personally I like to crawl around on the kitchen floor, showing off my plumber’s crack, and getting into those deep kitchen built-in corners with some paint! :)

Painting butler's pantry

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Priming Bathroom

We did some more rearranging and cleaning, namely the front bedroom because our new bed will be delivered Tuesday!

Patrick also primed the walls by the shower.

Priming bathroom walls

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Passed HVAC Inspection

Fourth try was a charm! We passed our final HVAC/gas inspection today. I called Mark at about 9:45am since we hadn’t seen or heard from him. He said he spoke with the city and they told him there was a mix-up with the address or something, but that they would be out today. He came and turned off the gas at about 10:30am, and the inspector showed up at about 11:30am. He told Patrick that his grandmother lives just down the street from us! And he approved us, of course, so we are now good to go for final inspections. Mark came back around 5:00pm to turn the gas back on. No more waking up and having our heat turned off, woohoo!

In addition Gus and Jim are back to finish up some more carpentry work. I posted pictures in the Photos section.

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