Sunday, June 21, 2009

The Plan

So here is my current plan, partially ramified into a current to-do list:
  1. Carriage house livability

    • Kitchen
      • Finish cleaning
      • Put fridge into fridge nook (this requires some special cleaning)
      • Carry stove up from van, install, clean
      • Unpack kitchen items from downstairs

    • Bathroom
      • Reinstall tub faucet assembly, plumb, test
      • Repair tub wall
      • Install new tub surround
      • Install new (pedestal) vanity
      • Finish cleaning, probably paint the trim

    • Windows
      • Finish window 2
      • Front windows
      • Remaining two 28"x54" at my leisure (kitchen and bathroom)
      • Trim on bedroom window

    • Paint all external trim

    • Hook up washer and dryer

    • Cleaning
      • Scrub stairs
      • Finish mopping ceiling and walls in bedroom and front room
      • One more thorough mopping of entire apartment

  2. Cleaning in big house
    • Bedrooms upstairs (library floor still has partially glued padding)
    • Basement
      • Remove floor structure, save plywood and 2x4s
      • Clean actual floor
    • Back rooms (just vacuum and remove carpet)
    • Remainder of downstairs: just mop thoroughly

  3. Kitchen in big house
    • Install $10 sink, probably against east wall
    • Purchase and install long countertop against west wall
    • Electric cooktop in west wall counter
    • Second small "vegetable sink" in west wall counter
    • Cabinetry at a later date
    • Remove frame wall between present kitchen and "back room #2" to make extended kitchen area

  4. Upstairs plumbing in big house (two full baths)
    • Entirely new water supply due to stupid present routing
    • Local on-demand hot water for both showers

  5. Gutters and drainage

  6. Which brings us to the issue of heat in the big house... I want to get started on heat in earnest no later than early August, or Things Will Be Bad.
This should all be easy, right??

2 comments:

  1. I'm tired just from reading that.

    Mary Anne in Kentucky

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  2. Not easy, but doable. You're making much faster progress overall than I would have expected, judging from what you write here. It may seem slow to you, but I live with a handyman-type, and believe me, it's not!

    (For some reason, LJ doesn't want to verify my identity today.)

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