House Update

YAY. The apartment is finished. The kitchen has been tiled upstairs and the washroom has been started! The floors have been re-sanded and look brand new. The walls have had a washing to get rid of all the sawdust from sanding.

This weekend I’m going to start staining the hardwood upstairs. SO EXCITED! Believe it or not I’m almost finished the inside. Staining, varnishing floors and baseboards and trim, then it’s on to painting then I move my ass in…then I start the outside! But that will just be a fun workout!

Hot damn, the place looks GOOOOOD. So good in fact the previous owners came by to check it out and said it’s a brand new home and they can’t believe what we’ve done in under 3 months…beat that Mike Holmes!

Oh and for all you smokers out there, I’ve got a little story for you:

The previous owners were HEAVY smokers and had never had the ducts cleaned. So, I figured that after all the sawdust was cleaned out of the house then I would get the ducts cleaned. In order to perform this task, three access holes needed to be cut in the duct work so the pros could get their vacuum inside…OMG, what a disgusting layer of yellowish-brown, nicotine filled, hairy, moldy, fungal mess! It was at least an inch thick on the inside of the ducts. They are now sparkling clean and they’ll never look like that (while I own the house) again…but let me tell you, if you are a smoker and see something like that and don’t quit…well…you’re F*CKING CRAZY!

Cheers!
Andrew

P.S. I’ll try to remember to take a picture of the fungus and in the coming days (next week) I should have “FInished” pics of the apartment online.

Great Weekend!

Great weekend!  Spent Friday night buying tile for the downstairs landing and a few other things for the house.  Saturday morning was sanding at 7am while I waited for the carpenter and window guys to show up.

The carpenter was awesome and got all my doors hung downstairs and trimmed up so-to-speak.  The window guys installed my basement windows and they are AMAZING…get this, they actually close and open with ease and close ALL THE WAY for that matter…crazy I know!

My drop ceiling guy brought the materials he needs to get started but decided to come Monday (tonight) to do the work because there were already too many bodies in the basement (3).

On Sunday Craig and my brother helped do some sanding and overall cleaning of the house and I was really impressed with how much was accomplished this weekend overall.

Saturday and Sunday night my “free time” was spent watching Clerks 2 and Miami Vice…both were OK but not spectacular.

Cheers!
Andrew

Work In Progress

I finally got around to taking some “Work In Progress” shots of the house! Here they are. Its coming along and after this weekend the basement should look quite different. The drop ceiling is going in Friday / Saturday and the doors and some trim will be installed on Saturday too! I’m still a little behind because of the taper but such is life…I was expecting some “bumps” in the road and I guess that’s just one of them.

On the bright side I have a possible tenant already lined up!

UPDATE: Just got a call from Kingston Windows and Doors and they can do my basement windows this weekend!  YESSSSSS!

Cheers!
Andrew

Tired

Nothing much to blog about these days…other then the fact that I’m extremely tired and need a vacation.  Unfortunately for me I just bought a house and will NEVER see a tropical place of any sorts unless I win the lottery or marry into money!

HAHA, Cheers!

Andrew

P.S. The basement is up for grabs, know anyone who wants to rent a (brand) newly finished basement?

WEIRD

WOW…

I think I’ve been spending a little too much time working on the house. Last night I had a dream I was watching the news and this guy was going to break a world record by inhaling 100 lbs of sawdust while wearing a model home as a hat (the sawdust would fall out of the home). WEIRD! The more disturbing part was that it made me angry because I thought I could beat him by inhaling more!

LOL I guess I’ve done WAY too much sanding as of late…Needless to say I’ll be ECSTATIC when it’s finished…that’s right…ECSTATIC!

Cheers!
Andrew

P.S. Amy also had a dream…her head was a cake and she ate it!

Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

This was as good as I thought it would be (aside from all the talking eighth graders at the 10pm show). The action sequences were good, the story wasn’t bad and the acting was good (Still can’t stand Orlando as anything other then a fairy with pointy ears).

I give it an 8 out of 10, hopefully the third will be just as good or better.

Cheers!

Andrew

Superman

I saw the much anticipated Superman movie a week or so ago and I have to say, I was pleasantly surprised.  The effects were great, the acting was good (Spacey did well with his over the top Lex Luther) and the story wasn’t bad!  Seeing as how this could have been disastorous I say (if I had to rate it) I would give it a 7.5 out of 10.  Good movie, see it in theatres, the opening save is worth it!

Cheers!

Andrew

Jack Black Lied To Me

Nacho Libre was – as I predicted (yet had to see) – a bad movie!

In his confessionals Jack Black hyped the movie and said, and I quote “The word’s out, we have the best movie in Hollywood!”.   Well, he lied…it sucked.  Aside from the funny parts that you see in the trailers and a couple of one liners (“Take it eassssyyyy”) you don’t get much out of this movie.

Save your money, at best it’s a renter…at best!

Cheers!

Andrew

FINALLY HAVE A TAPER!!!

Well after years (OK, days) of searching I finally found a dry wall Taper! True, I could have done it myself, but I could also paint the Mona Lisa but you know damn well it won’t look the same (or any good for that matter). Anyhow, that means my basement will be completely taped by the end of the week, which means I can prime this weekend! YAYA.

Anyhow, aside from that and some CAT 5 wiring all I’ve accomplished since my last post is created a LOT of saw dust because I’ve been sanding baseboards and trim for the past week and a half….F*CK is all I can say….F*CK!

Cheers!
Andrew

P.S. F*CK ME!

Basement Woes

15 days have gone by since I took possession of the house and I must say things are going well. Although I'm not going to list EVERYTHING I've done in there let me say that I'm impressed with my Dad, Scott, Vern and myself for getting as much done as quick as we have. The basement should be done by the end of the month and it'll be time to paint the house. Needless to say my September 1st target date is more reasonable then I thought and I may even move it up to August 1st. Mind you, spending every weekend there and heading over there right after work and not leaving until 10pm makes things happen fast.

Wish me / us luck!

-Nacho