We haven’t made a post in a while: It’s because we got some rather unmotivating news; Po-Po has decided that she wants to move into a nursing home. The amount of time this is taking us has probably played into it a bit, but mostly she’s concerned that she does not want to have to cook, wants to have a nurse on call, and does not want to clean. All of this we can come up with ways to do, but also, she’s planning to move into a place with her sister-in-law. We understand that it may be lonely still living downstairs here, even though we are here. But at the rate we are working, she can go check out a nursing home for a few months; if she doesn’t like it or changes her mind, she’ll still be welcome here when we’re done!
We are now floating ideas of what we will do with the downstairs: Maybe a vacation rental?
I finally got the window trim back on, painted: finished. then we moved the scaffolding over to do some more painting on the next section of house, while we still had the scaffolding.
There was peeling paint all over the wall, so we encased the scaffold in plastic to keep all the paint chips in. Below, you can see janeen scraping off the loose paint.
Once every loose chip of paint was scraped off, sanded (with a HEPA vacuum attached), cleaned up, and the wall was washed with TSP, we primed and painted it.
On the inside of the house, I finished off the last piece of wainscot (it will be behind the door). Then, for the second time, I installed the shower receptor. Last time, it lifted up as the moisture in the mortar was absorbed into the wood floor and the floor swelled. After the wood dried, it left the mortar up, holding the shower receptor off the floor, so I had to tear the whole thing out. This time I did it right. I put down moisture barrier paper, then the mortar, and set the receptor into it.
To be sure that it was going to stay flat on the floor, I piled boxes of tile into it. The photo below right shows the drain plumbing for the shower. The white pipe is not PVC – it’s a piece of black ABS pipe that I’m reusing that had been painted white. (You are not supposed to connect ABS pipe to PVC – probably something to do with how they glue). It’s all black cast iron pipe as it exits the building, and the P-trap for the shower is also cast iron.
here are some photos of me painting the walls with the airless paint sprayer..
