Plumber

Electrician

• light fixture in Toby's office needs to be replaced (outlet under fixture, too)

Honey Done

• back door closer
• install automatic garage door opener. It turns out that after all the trouble of hanging the opener Vic didn't like parking in the garage (the door was too narrow) so now my motorcyles park in the garage and the cars park outside.
• can we put the upstairs hall light on the switch below it? - Nope..

• take old landscape timber to dump.
• rip up nasty alu gutters on front awning
• shutters in den. http://smithandnoble.com/ sent me a catalog. others?
• hook up icemaker
• fix shutter outside my office window.
• front screen/storm door

• take down old TV antenna (while up there scrape paint around bath window)
• re-open doorway between den and dining room
• cracked window in Toby's office

• need outlet behind bed in master BR
• need outlet by Tory's bed
• light fixture by washer is shot

Honey Done

• can we put the upstairs hall light on the switch below it? - Nope..
• move chandelier fixture in dining room
• fix upstairs bathroom tile.

• dining room door hinge (was held together with moly bolts and toothpicks. It's not fun cleaning up after a hacker)
• rip up front walk, replace with something less tarmac Hired a local contractor to do the work, a guy named Andy Shumway. My Mom suggested running the walk around the side of the house to the driveway and that seemed to make sense so we did, and it worked out really well. The work was slightly more expensive than we hoped but we saved a little bit of money when Andy jackhammered the concrete pad in front of the front door and found a huge slab of granite *inside* the concrete. The previous owners had evidently taken a nice granite step, encased it in concreate and then painted the concrete Navy grey. At least it looks good now.
• New dryer

-- TobyCabot - 24 Sep 2001-10 Feb 2002

• take old landscape timber to dump.
• rip up nasty alu gutters on front awning

• shutters in den. http://smithandnoble.com/ sent me a catalog. others?
• hook up icemaker
• fix shutter outside my office window.

• need outlet behind bed in master BR
• need outlet by Tory's bed
• light fixture by washer is shot

• wiring in dining room is nasty - run behind baseboards

Honey Done

• 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.
• prep/paint trim around front door, fix door sill.
• 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.

• take old landscape timber to dump.

• rip up nasty alu gutters on front awning
• fix upstairs bathroom tile.
• shutters in den. http://smithandnoble.com/ sent me a catalog. others?

• re-open doorway between den and dining room
• cracked window in Toby's office
• cut back yard fence to waist high, paint.

• patio behind kids' playroom
• get rid of crappy storm windows on first floor front windows. look for a less cheezy alternative.
• wood gutters on front of house?

• need outlet by Tory's bed
• light fixture by washer is shot
• move chandelier fixture in dining room

• wiring in dining room is nasty - run behind baseboards

Honey Done

• 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

• get rid of gutters around garage looks much better
• ethernet to back porch, toby's office
• dining room door hinge (was held together with moly bolts and toothpicks. It's not fun cleaning up after a hacker)

• front screen/storm door
• back door closer
• take down old TV antenna (while up there scrape paint around bath window)

• 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

• patio behind kids' playroom

Plumber

Electrician

Honey Done

• 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

• front screen/storm door

• prep/paint trim around front door
• strip/paint front door to match shutters
• patio behind kids' playroom

Plumber

• front screen/storm door
• back door closer

• 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

Plumber

• front screen/storm door

• back door closer

• old TV antenna (while up there scrape paint around bath window)

• re-hang shelves in upstairs bath
• re-open doorway between den and dining room

• front screen/storm door
• dining room door hinge
• back door closer

• old TV antenna (while up there scrape paint around bath window)
• get rid of gutters around garage
• re-hang shelves in upstairs bath