I'm not much in the mood for posting this evening,
so this will be short.
And mildly informative.
And somewhat ho hum.
OK.
A lot ho hum.
Here goes...
Are ya still with me?
Lately I've spent a whole lot of time
up on the extension ladder with my trusty caulk gun and Mr Garrison Keillor.
Mr Keillor takes up a minuscule amount of room on the ladder,
as he is nicely contained within my iHeartRadio app.
I think, though, that Bill, Sharon, Barry and Marlene
(our neighbors to the south and north, respectively)
may be thinking it's time for me to be committed to
The Padded Palace due to my random bouts of
hysterical laughter while I'm perched up there on the rungs.
Cancel that reservation -
it's just Mr Keillor ticklin' my funny bone.
I've caulked all the windows, seams and nail holes
(nail holes where the pressure was a tad too high on the compressor)
and trimmers on the back of the house.
I do love the traditional look of lap siding, but there sure is
lots of prep work to be done before painting.
Tomorrow I'll start on the front.
That ^^^ up there...
I started it two weeks ago.
We've been busy.
And weekends are short.
And by the time I get the time to blog
I'm spent.
I'll try and throw in a few more details of our recent work here
at
Our Retro Bungalow.
The caulking is just about done; I just have the north side of the house to do now.
Dean took care of caulking everything above the frieze bands and soffits
and I sure do appreciate that because the further away I get from the ground
the less I like it.
The summer heat really kicked in bout a month ago, but no worries
because Dean got the evaporative cooler hoisted up on the roof with Tannon's help
and wired and plumbed just in time.
Someone (who shall remain nameless) was really quite cynical about the fact that
we'd chosen to go with a "swamp cooler". And the young men from the company we
hired to fabricate and install the duct work for it said they'd never, ever installed a duct
for an evaporative cooler before.
A central air conditioner was simply not an option because we have no ducts.
Remember that we went with radiant floor heating.
No ducts. No registers.
And we are quite comfortable with our "swamp cooler" thankyouverymuch.
First off, after purchasing the unit, we got a HEFTY "rebate" from the power company
because "swamp coolers" are VERY efficient.
After the rebate we ended up paying about $140 for the unit.
Compare that with what you'd pay for a central air conditioner!
It's literally a fraction of the cost.
That's a pretty sweet deal and ain't nobody can argue with that.
And here's the kicker...
we got our report for power usage via email as usual.
Saving on the cooler itself was awesome,
but saving big-time on our power bill
is the frosting on the cake.
And check this out...
So, go ahead.
Be cynical.
We'll just keep on smilin' and bein' cool, baby.
We weren't sure just how to go about finishing off the raw lumber framing
on the garage door openings. We'd talked about covering and trimming it with
Smartside, but neither one of us were too excited about that idea.
I told Mr that I was pretty sure Omega metals could fabricate something for us
if we just provided a drawing of what we wanted with all the dimensions.
My engineer husband drew up what he thought would work, I delivered the
illustration to Omega metals and, sure enough, in just a couple of days
and for not a lot of dollars, they made just what we needed.
And we are extremely happy with how it fit just right and looks so clean.
Lets see...
what else?
We got all the soffit and fascia put up and I guess
since it's been a while, here's a photo of the font elevation...
The week before last, Dean built and hung five gable boxes.
This was kind of a big deal.
It took a lot of time and effort and figuring.
And guessing.
And he blames my "house porn" problem
(you know...as in houzz.com)
for coming up with all these 'great ideas' and having to figure them babies out.
But he did a great job, as usual, and I really do appreciate him
putting up with and coming through on my little (and sometimes not-so-little) requests.
Our friend, Ryan Udell, is making custom attic vents to fit in the gable boxes.
We had our "final inspection" done a few weeks ago.
We were hoping for Inspector Mike, but he was on vacation
with his family, so Inspector Blaine showed up in his place.
Inspector Blaine is a great guy and a good stand-in for Mike
so we didn't mind too much.
We knew that no matter who showed up to do the inspection we'd have
a 'to do' list to work on before we would be issued our official
occupancy permit. Most of the things on the list we were expecting,
but there were a few surprises; surprises like one of the treads on
our front porch being 1/16 of an inch too low.
Wow.
Picky, picky, picky!
We've got all but one item checked off the tick-list
and that is the vents Ryan is making for us.
And he just got back from scout camp, so I'm thinking
it'll be next week when we get those installed.
A couple of other little details...
We had a slab of honed Absolute Black granite installed for a hearth
on the upstairs fireplace. It looks nice and finishes out the sitting room well.
The under cabinet and upper, glass front cabinet lighting is in.
Glad that's done.
And now it's time for this post to be done.
I've really just cranked this out and I know when I go back and
read it tomorrow it will be tedious and dull,
but it's done.
Thank you for stopping by.
Good night and God bless.
That ^^^ up there...
I started it two weeks ago.
We've been busy.
And weekends are short.
And by the time I get the time to blog
I'm spent.
I'll try and throw in a few more details of our recent work here
at
Our Retro Bungalow.
The caulking is just about done; I just have the north side of the house to do now.
Dean took care of caulking everything above the frieze bands and soffits
and I sure do appreciate that because the further away I get from the ground
the less I like it.
The summer heat really kicked in bout a month ago, but no worries
because Dean got the evaporative cooler hoisted up on the roof with Tannon's help
and wired and plumbed just in time.
Someone (who shall remain nameless) was really quite cynical about the fact that
we'd chosen to go with a "swamp cooler". And the young men from the company we
hired to fabricate and install the duct work for it said they'd never, ever installed a duct
for an evaporative cooler before.
A central air conditioner was simply not an option because we have no ducts.
Remember that we went with radiant floor heating.
No ducts. No registers.
And we are quite comfortable with our "swamp cooler" thankyouverymuch.
First off, after purchasing the unit, we got a HEFTY "rebate" from the power company
because "swamp coolers" are VERY efficient.
After the rebate we ended up paying about $140 for the unit.
Compare that with what you'd pay for a central air conditioner!
It's literally a fraction of the cost.
That's a pretty sweet deal and ain't nobody can argue with that.
And here's the kicker...
we got our report for power usage via email as usual.
Saving on the cooler itself was awesome,
but saving big-time on our power bill
is the frosting on the cake.
And check this out...
So, go ahead.
Be cynical.
We'll just keep on smilin' and bein' cool, baby.
We weren't sure just how to go about finishing off the raw lumber framing
on the garage door openings. We'd talked about covering and trimming it with
Smartside, but neither one of us were too excited about that idea.
I told Mr that I was pretty sure Omega metals could fabricate something for us
if we just provided a drawing of what we wanted with all the dimensions.
My engineer husband drew up what he thought would work, I delivered the
illustration to Omega metals and, sure enough, in just a couple of days
and for not a lot of dollars, they made just what we needed.
And we are extremely happy with how it fit just right and looks so clean.
Lets see...
what else?
We got all the soffit and fascia put up and I guess
since it's been a while, here's a photo of the font elevation...
The week before last, Dean built and hung five gable boxes.
This was kind of a big deal.
It took a lot of time and effort and figuring.
And guessing.
And he blames my "house porn" problem
(you know...as in houzz.com)
for coming up with all these 'great ideas' and having to figure them babies out.
But he did a great job, as usual, and I really do appreciate him
putting up with and coming through on my little (and sometimes not-so-little) requests.
Our friend, Ryan Udell, is making custom attic vents to fit in the gable boxes.
We had our "final inspection" done a few weeks ago.
We were hoping for Inspector Mike, but he was on vacation
with his family, so Inspector Blaine showed up in his place.
Inspector Blaine is a great guy and a good stand-in for Mike
so we didn't mind too much.
We knew that no matter who showed up to do the inspection we'd have
a 'to do' list to work on before we would be issued our official
occupancy permit. Most of the things on the list we were expecting,
but there were a few surprises; surprises like one of the treads on
our front porch being 1/16 of an inch too low.
Wow.
Picky, picky, picky!
We've got all but one item checked off the tick-list
and that is the vents Ryan is making for us.
And he just got back from scout camp, so I'm thinking
it'll be next week when we get those installed.
A couple of other little details...
We had a slab of honed Absolute Black granite installed for a hearth
on the upstairs fireplace. It looks nice and finishes out the sitting room well.
The under cabinet and upper, glass front cabinet lighting is in.
Glad that's done.
And now it's time for this post to be done.
I've really just cranked this out and I know when I go back and
read it tomorrow it will be tedious and dull,
but it's done.
Thank you for stopping by.
Good night and God bless.
