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    Almost there... only 40' more baseboard and 3 door frames left to redo trim on, 9 light switches, 3 outlets, 2 built-in vacuum outlets, 2 phone jacks...

    Not 100% happy with the result, frame is square/plumb, but doors touch at the base, 3/16" gap at the top? I'm missing something - Gotta look at the hinges tomorrow...

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    Done for the weekend...

    New closet door coming; gotta go scare up some work - then I can order 3 more shaker doors, and some laminate to redo what's there + rip the shag out... (thus trim is just 'tacked' in place so I don't get OCD)

    Ran into a minor issue with one plug, neutral appears to be dead; was tied to ground - and functioned, but blows the breaker now if I copy... Guess I need to pop open a wall in the baby's room and replace a section of wire (fed off the breaker for his room)

    2@ 89$ for the 36" hemlock doors
    ~30$ in trim (about half of the 65$ I bought 2 weeks back for the back hallway)
    2 @ 31.97 for CIL kitchen & bath paint (should have been 35.97ea, but they were out so we got upgraded at n/c)
    ~45$ for decorator switches, phone jacks, outlets, vacuflo outlets.
    No more schoolbus yellow and badly painted trim... Priceless
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    Today I learned how to clean out the filter on a front loading washer We love floods in the laundry room...

    2 socks for the apprentice, a few q-tips, and tons of lint... (yes, it's only a few months old) I'm debating just leaving the front panel off

    Before you say it - we let my 9yr old pick the paint; and paint the laundry room... (Yes perhaps was a bad idea; but it was a valuable learning experience for her - she no longer complains about what needs reno's next)

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    Did we forget? Springs here!



    17 sunflowers, about 30 marigolds, 14 beefsteak tomatoes, 5-6 giant strawberry plants, ~60 daisies... Hopefully I'll get the greenhouse up and running this weekend and pop a few hundred more seeds over the next few weeks.

    Have some funkadelic white alpine strawberry seeds in the freezer.

    Gotta find someone with raspberries to share this year...

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    Well it was another early morning..... but this is what i did last weekend



    And finally i am 90% finished my ultimate BBQ table!! Big thanks to SR240SX for providing about 95% of the pennies







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    Cleaned the garage so now I have room to air out my hockey gear.

    Also did some maintenance on my bike. It was a good Sunday.

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    Ok... So I may have started them a touch early... And a few too many...

    I best be getting the greenhouse up and running... I'm running out of room/racks...

    And need to do an arseload of repotting...

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    what temperature does your greenhouse get up to averagely from now until october? we are thinking of getting one of those cedar ones from costco...
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    Generally when it's running right - whatever temp I set the thermostat to (has a NG furnace) Through the summer, due to lack of functional roof vents, it's usually in the 40's...

    Planning a major overhaul/rebuild this spring to make it a bit more functional/energy efficient.

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    so its standalone in your garden running with a ng furnace or attached to your house?
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    Old school standalone greenhouse 16'x8'. Was originally a beaver lumber 'kit'.

    Still in the design stages, but probably getting fully knocked down and replaced after the ground thaws and I can get digging

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    Just slapped the first coat of mud on my drywall tapes today. Not sure if this garage project is going to kill me or what. Feeling pretty exhausted. It started out as a super moldy, dark, hole. I gutted the whole thing. Added new electrical, a larger garage door, new roof, furnace, insulation, drywall. It's nice that its coming together finally. Sorry for the blurry photo. All I have is a work light right now.
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    Originally posted by NickGT
    Just slapped the first coat of mud on my drywall tapes today. Not sure if this garage project is going to kill me or what. Feeling pretty exhausted. It started out as a super moldy, dark, hole. I gutted the whole thing. Added new electrical, a larger garage door, new roof, furnace, insulation, drywall. It's nice that its coming together finally. Sorry for the blurry photo. All I have is a work light right now.
    Looks great! How big is the garage and how many pot lights are you using? I am planning on pot lights too as soon as things warm up here!

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    Originally posted by ALBERTA_IS


    Looks great! How big is the garage and how many pot lights are you using? I am planning on pot lights too as soon as things warm up here!

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    Garage is approx 26' x 24' It's an oversized double with almost 12' ceiling. I think there's 16 pot lights.

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    Nice how did I miss that? Getting a hoist?

    I've gotta start on this today:


    Desperately need to get around to doing a bunch of transplanting and firing up the greenhouse furnace...

    Now on to business... Kinda sorta not really

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    Garaga is one of my favorite manufacturers; The hightec+ is a fricken awesome door (and is a true aluminium door, not steel, Aluminium!)

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    Originally posted by AndyL
    Nice how did I miss that? Getting a hoist?
    Thought about it, but it's not in the immediate future. Just a showroom for the car at the moment. With a huge work bench for all my tools and working on random projects. Should be pretty nice. I'll post some pics once I get paint. Still dealing with some wonky butt joints in my drywall

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    This weekend has been fix things around the house day. Replaced a toilet seat, fixed my leaky shower.
    I have AndyL fixing my garage door, don't trust myself fixing that hahahah

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    Spent all day cleaning the hell out of my 800sq.ft garage floor. Then I completely rewired a bunch in there, stuff I've been meaning to do forever. My reward for more than a full days work in there? Itchy arms because of the stupid insulation in the attic while I was rewiring . Ahh well, I can take the rest of the weekend off now, and not feel bad


    I really have to look into coating the floor more, garage tiles or something. 40 year old concrete doesn't clean up so well.


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    didnt have much time at the house today (other than some quality getting spit up on time with the apprentice).

    but got 2 chainsaws out of their winter slumber - first pull on the POS poulan!!! Wish i could say the same about the stihl, might need to rebuild its carb too (tractor's was found to be needing rebuild last weekend) ,

    Arranged to have a chipper pay me a visit this weekend...

    So that'll leave me about a 15' wide drop zone, fence to neighbours one side, power lines and dump truck to the other... This should be amusing... shall i start taking bets on carnage?

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    "start" of the day


    "End" of the day


    Yeah, had to work between naps we had a sleepy apprentice today... So alternated between removing godawful perennials from the front flower beds, and knocking trees down.

    Tomorrows going to be fun - trying to take those back 4 completely out; the next one - needs to be topped before I can drop it, but its so full of dead wood, i'm breaking limbs off while trying to setup the ladder...

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