Progress!
I am fortunate that my job consists of a variety of different task requiring different amounts of mental energy. I was exhausted today from the weekend, and was able to slip into some of the less mentally grueling work, and them morning slipped by as I puttered away. This is opposite of last week, where I was tackling some of the more brainy kind of stuff, I think in contrast to the physical labor I was doing at home with the (forced) bedroom renovations.
For some reason I found the work this weekend left me more mentally exhausted, maybe in an increase of physical exhaustion, my brain was slowing down. I took a break on Saturday and saw Julie & Julia with Allyson and Alison. I enjoyed the movie, but was moody about working after that. Called it an early evening on Saturday (stopping at a modest 10:30 pm).
Sunday I got up and started reading submitted stories for my writers group. In the end I decided to not go to the meet-up, but I did pop in (I was dropping off another member from the group) to let them know I will be at the workshop on Tuesday. I owe two of the members their critiques via e-mail, and hope to get those sent out tonight.
As for progress on the room...
We finished painting the bedroom and closet - both got a total of two full coats and touch-ups. Toby cut the baseboards, complete with coping the edges so they look nice in the corners, and Anne and I painted them.
We finished the door frames, primed and painted, and removed the doors. Toby cut the new door trim, and I painted it. Our neighbor, Duncan, came over bearing tools, and helped Toby install the door trim. I pulled up the carpet in the bedroom, and the carpet pad (and man, you could really see the water stains from the underside of the carpet. Definitely glad we were getting rid of it) and set to work on the strips of carpet tack around the edges of the room. Anne helped remove the stray nails, then she and Toby and I started installing the baseboards.
Not wanting to haul he heavy carpet through a winding house, Anne and I removed the screen from one of the windows in the bedroom, and chucked the carpet pad and carpet out onto the concrete. Today we get to move it, the baseboards, and the old toilet to the curb for pickup tomorrow.
Duncan came over again yesterday, and he and Alison helped us lay the under-floor padding, and then Duncan showed Toby how to measure boards at the end of the walls, and at door jambs and such. He had installed the floor for his house when he moved in, and is full of expertise and has all the tools we need, and is willing to lend them to us. We very much appreciate the help. Alison and I were locking boards in place while Duncan and Toby were making cuts, and we got to an impasse, we needed to move the boxes of floor boards from the closet, pull up the carpet, carpet pad and carpet tacks in there as well.
Toby cut the baseboards for the closet, and discovered that he needs one more. Tonight I’ll paint the cut baseboards, and see what other stuff I can do while they dry. If all goes well, we should have the floor complete by Tuesday, with just the quarter-round to install, and some touch-up work on the baseboards and door trim to complete - to cover the spot where the nails are. Then we get to start the process of moving back into our bedroom, and that is the most exciting part of all :-)
For some reason I found the work this weekend left me more mentally exhausted, maybe in an increase of physical exhaustion, my brain was slowing down. I took a break on Saturday and saw Julie & Julia with Allyson and Alison. I enjoyed the movie, but was moody about working after that. Called it an early evening on Saturday (stopping at a modest 10:30 pm).
Sunday I got up and started reading submitted stories for my writers group. In the end I decided to not go to the meet-up, but I did pop in (I was dropping off another member from the group) to let them know I will be at the workshop on Tuesday. I owe two of the members their critiques via e-mail, and hope to get those sent out tonight.
As for progress on the room...
We finished painting the bedroom and closet - both got a total of two full coats and touch-ups. Toby cut the baseboards, complete with coping the edges so they look nice in the corners, and Anne and I painted them.
We finished the door frames, primed and painted, and removed the doors. Toby cut the new door trim, and I painted it. Our neighbor, Duncan, came over bearing tools, and helped Toby install the door trim. I pulled up the carpet in the bedroom, and the carpet pad (and man, you could really see the water stains from the underside of the carpet. Definitely glad we were getting rid of it) and set to work on the strips of carpet tack around the edges of the room. Anne helped remove the stray nails, then she and Toby and I started installing the baseboards.
Not wanting to haul he heavy carpet through a winding house, Anne and I removed the screen from one of the windows in the bedroom, and chucked the carpet pad and carpet out onto the concrete. Today we get to move it, the baseboards, and the old toilet to the curb for pickup tomorrow.
Duncan came over again yesterday, and he and Alison helped us lay the under-floor padding, and then Duncan showed Toby how to measure boards at the end of the walls, and at door jambs and such. He had installed the floor for his house when he moved in, and is full of expertise and has all the tools we need, and is willing to lend them to us. We very much appreciate the help. Alison and I were locking boards in place while Duncan and Toby were making cuts, and we got to an impasse, we needed to move the boxes of floor boards from the closet, pull up the carpet, carpet pad and carpet tacks in there as well.
Toby cut the baseboards for the closet, and discovered that he needs one more. Tonight I’ll paint the cut baseboards, and see what other stuff I can do while they dry. If all goes well, we should have the floor complete by Tuesday, with just the quarter-round to install, and some touch-up work on the baseboards and door trim to complete - to cover the spot where the nails are. Then we get to start the process of moving back into our bedroom, and that is the most exciting part of all :-)