Work hasn’t yet resumed…
By Joe at 30 December, 2008, 10:11 pm
But I used one of our Lowe’s gift cards! After work I went over to our local Lowe’s and picked up some paint for the kitchen, which I fully intend on finishing this week.
I got some of this Olympic Premium Interior Latex paint (of the Eggshell varietal):
It’s Zero-VOC, which is good, and it wasn’t totally expensive. We have MANY $10 off a $50 dollar order coupons for Lowe’s so I think after it was all said and done it was only $18 dollars a gallon… which isn’t much more than the cheapy Lowe’s brand white paint.
I also picked up some more spackle and another can of primer, since I left our last can of Killz out on the porch and it froze. (Don’t do this). Gretchen and I plan on getting the kitchen done this week and using the weekend to continue the rest of the living room so that we can at least get our downstairs in order.
In other news, the furnace in the garage that heats the apartment is 100% shot. Well, maybe only 99% shot. We had a plumber come out this morning and check it out today after discovering that there was no heat upstairs. Apparently there is a multitude of problems with the thing, culminating in us needing to replace it entirely. 1. It’s 30 years old and mostly broken. 2. It’s installed improperly and “illegally,” which I assume means not up to code. 3. When it does run it pumps oil fumes into the apartment above the garage, which would be bad if anyone was actually up there.
So we’re waiting on a quote from the plumber for replacing that, but we will, in all likelihood, turn off the water and flush the pipes so that they don’t freeze over the winter. That means no heat, but it’s such a mess up there that nobody would be able to live there anyway. Instead we’ll focus on fixing up the (or installing a new) bathroom in “the main house” and finishing the cosmetic things. The plumber will also be quoting us on the bathroom. Cross your fingers.
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