COLD

We were outside today for most of the day. Tommy worked on cutting a majority of the 3"x3" tiles with funky cuts for around the tumbled stone in between helping his dad in the basement. He was working outside on the tile saw since it gets kind of messy and it was a little too cold!

I tackled fixing up the baseboard moldings. When Andre and Amy did their house they ordered too much molding so they sent it over to our house... but they stacked it when it wasn't completely dry... this created some sticky which left holes in the paint when it peeled off... I spent the entire day sanding them so that you could not longer see the holes... I still have to prime them and repaint them...

Tom's dad worked in the basement. He is doing some work on the heat so that we can hook up the mixing valve near the furnace for the radiant heat in the master bath and possibly the kitchen...

Radiant Floor 3

First of all I have to tell you that our little devil had some fun today while we were at work. He took the NEW blackberry charger and chewed to TINY TINY little pieces... something that I don't think even Tommy can salvage. He couldn't have atleast chewed the first one a little more... nope, not my devil... Good thing we don't leave anything plugged in because he is infatuated with cords!


Then we continued to work on the radiant floor heat in the master bath... We finished up the first layer of plywood, vacuumed up the sawdust from the router and then laid the tubing... It was close but we had about 3 feet extra. They only sell it in a max of 200 feet because that is the longest run you should have and we just made it... The second layer of plywood is a little tricky because you have to make sure you don't put a screw where the pipe is running... almost finished before we called it a night.

Radiant Floor 2

Today we worked on the rest of the plywood strips and then Tommy routed the returns on every other strip... It was kind of messy with the router and pretty dusty... a nasty job, but he finished. In the meantime I mowed the front lawn... We have 50% grass and 50% weeds...The bottom half of the frontyard has some pretty decent grass, but the top half has NOTHING... oh well... The backyard is pretty good as far as grass but it was too hot outside to continue mowing that.

Radiant Floor 1

Today we started on the radiant floor heat in the master bath... First Tommy touched up some spackle and I vacuumed up. We then cut 7" strips of plywood just to come upstairs and find out that the plywood we got is not thick enough for the radiant floor pipe... hmmm looks like that website wasn't correct... Oh well, anyone need 7" shelves... we jumped in the Hyundai truck (haha!) and got some thicker plywood at Home Depot. We recut them into 7" strips and started laying them out in the master bedroom. We got almost everything down except for the toilet room before we called it quits for the day...