Difference: HoneyDo (5 vs. 6)

Revision 615 Sep 2002 - TobyCabot

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 Things to do around the house:
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  • New dryer
  • take old landscape timber to dump.
  • prep/paint trim around front door, fix door sill.
  • rip up nasty alu gutters on front awning
  • fix upstairs bathroom tile.
  • shutters in den. http://smithandnoble.com/ sent me a catalog. others?
  • hook up icemaker
  • fix shutter outside my office window.
 
  • front screen/storm door
  • back door closer
  • take down old TV antenna (while up there scrape paint around bath window)
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  • re-hang shelves in upstairs bath
 
  • re-open doorway between den and dining room
  • cracked window in Toby's office
  • cut back yard fence to waist high, paint.
  • rip up front walk, replace with something less tarmac
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  • prep/paint trim around front door
  • strip/paint front door to match shutters
 
  • patio behind kids' playroom
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  • get rid of cinder blocks, etc. West Roxbury Crushed Stone (617) 323-6380 will take them but their minimum drop-off charge is $60 (you can dump 10 tons for that amount). Jet-A-Way Recycling Roxbury (617) 541-4000 $59/ton for cinder blocks ONLY, $129 for mixed debris.
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  • get rid of crappy storm windows on first floor front windows. look for a less cheezy alternative.
  • wood gutters on front of house?
  • rip up the plywood that frank put down over the screened porch floor and figure out why he did it. My guess is that the floor underneath is rotten but he didn't feel like doing a decent repair.
  • seal foundation with foam.
 

Plumber

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  • outside hose faucet is shot - leaks
 

Electrician

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Honey Done

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  • strip/paint front door to match shutters. This was a minor disaster. I used "strip-away" alkaline paint stipper which did a fantastic job stipping the four coats of paint but then wouldn't stop. It kept bleeding through the primer and dripping brown gunk down the front of the door. I also had to do a bunch of work to get the lock to close correctly; another Frank McDonald hack job.
  • get rid of cinder blocks, etc. took them to a place on the road to Costco, on the left, they charged $5 to take them.
  • outside hose faucet is shot - leaks
  • re-hang shelves in upstairs bath
 
  • two cracked windows on back porch (was 3 by the time I was done, but they're all fixed now)
  • get rid of gutters around garage looks much better
  • ethernet to back porch, toby's office
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