The List - July update

Time for an update to The List.  This is satisfying.  I didn't realize how much I've accomplished. 

Newly on the list:

1. Paint upstairs half bath.
2. Weather strips at bottom of garage man-door.
3. Shrouds for west and garden water tanks.
4. Add eavestroughs to sheds
5. Trim the basement bathroom light (the installers cut the drywall bigger than the fixture)

In the attic:

1. Install two bathroom fans (that move air, and don’t howl) 

Upstairs:

1. Hang Pictures (in progress – we have some up, but many more to go)
2. Install baseboards in the closets
3. Find a place to hang the vacuum cleaner hoses
4. Fill the nail holes in all the baseboards
5. New door sweeps at front door and back door
6. Paint doors
7. Paint ceiling at skylight
8. Replace under-cabinet lighting (still in progress – have the parts, just need to do it)
9. Fix the shelves in the walk-in closet
10. Re-silicone the en-suite bathtub

Outside:

1. Patch broken stucco
2. Hand rails at main entrance and garage man-doors (2)
3. Level sidewalk tiles at shed, walkout
4. Fix play center and build a play house in one side of it, and install a wheel up top
5. Replace deck, as the current one is deck boards installed on top of plywood
6. Paint garage doors
7. Put siding on sheds (they’re currently painted OSB)
8. Fix soffits on the house and shed
9. Build a shed for garbage
10. Designate an area of front yard to go wild, and then plant a bunch of trees and brush to help it along. (Got the evergreens planted.  Next up: deciduous (possibly next year) and then shrubs (the year after that).
11. Re-grade under the deck and east side of walkout

In the Garage

1. Move garage door opener buttons
2. Fix saggy ceiling in garage
3. More shelves in the garage (there’s an entire bare wall that could handle shelves for shoes, kitchen appliances, etc.)

In the Basement:

1. Run internet cable to the projector
2. Install at least one cold air return
3. Build shelves in the furnace room
4. Deal with the hacked-in wet bar/kitchen in the basement (rip it out and start again?)
5. Install projector and screen (got the projector up, still testing where I’ll want the screen)
6. Build a hearth of some sort around the fireplace
7. Trim glass block feature (in progress – I have the trim, now need to stain, finish, and install)
8. Drywall under stairs
9. Clean up and/or throw out carpet (under stairs)  
10. Build bookshelves
11. Figure out basement lights switches that do nothing, and the lights that won’t turn on. (Well, the switches go to the lights.  Now I need to figure out what the other two wires going into the switch box are for, and why there’s no power there)
12. Install faucet that doesn’t get half-turned-off in the basement bathroom
13. Install towel bars, TP holders, etc. in basement bathroom

Electrician (or HVAC): 

1. Install outlets for garage heater, water heater (currently on extension cords)
2. Hook up and/or fix central exhaust fan (Found the wire at the fuse panel – unconnected.  Presumably, that’s the problem.)

Carpet layer:

1. Install tack strip at kitchen, hearth
2. Stretch carpet
3. Fix visible seam 

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Total:  48 entries

 Now, here's the good side of The List.  If I keep at it, the top will migrate to the bottom:

Crossed off (as of July 23, 2013)

1. Fix loose baseboard installation
2. Get rid of the gravel in the shrub garden
3. Take out an overgrown, ugly, pain-in-the-butt flowerbed
4. Fix stairs to the hot tub (replaced with some old ones to a shed.  They work ok).
5. Re-balance the washing machine
6. [Plumber] Figure out whether in-floor heat, and on-demand water heater are installed correctly (nope!), and
7. [Plumber] Thermostat for in-floor heat (Nothing that $5000 couldn't fix.  But then we got a bit better flow through our lines, and all sorts of crud started coming up and clogging various screens. It seems to be settling down now.  Finally.)
8. Fix the leaking eavestroughs 
9. Install half bath faucet.
10. Hand rails at deck stairs
11. Towel bars etc. at main bath, en-suite, and half bath.
12. Install curtains and/or blinds in the bedrooms
13. Fix the rod in the main entrance closet 
14. Get rid of rust stain on side of house
15. Install cat doors in both sheds (this was more a decision that they’re not necessary than a completed job)
16. Paint basement bathroom
17. Paint basement hallway
18. Get rid of chicken coop (Somebody actually paid money for it!)
19. Get rid of chicken poo
20. Remove old internet antenna
21. Patch holes in wall from internet wire
22. Fix old hot tub electrical box
23. Finish drywall repairs in the bathroom 
24. Install bathroom lights

On and off again:

1. Buy and plant pear and apple trees (we’re up to five apples, three pears, and four cherries)
2. Hook up six water tanks
3. Shroud for east water tank
4. Prune more trees (they've all been done once, now)
5. Re-grade east shrub garden
6. Box for propane and pool chemical storage
7. Install reverse osmosis system in basement

Old stuff crossed off:

1. New thermostat for garage heater
2. Oil changes for quad, lawnmowers
3. Shelves for the spice cupboard 
4. Replace stairs on deck 
5. Fix saggy cables in the garage
6. Fix mitre saw table
7. Shelves in the garage (two over one side of the workbench)
8. Shelves under the work bench 
9. Fix lawnmower steering
10. Clean pencil crayon off glass block grout
11. Replace stopper in bathroom sink
12. Hook up kitchenette water
13. It’s nice that this section is longer than the top section, even if it’s just by a little.
14. And the jobs that didn’t stay on the list long enough to register
15. Fix the broken glass panel in the pantry door
16. Stop the deck door from binding on the frame
17. Replace the expired smoke detectors, and install a CO detector
18. Make the toilets in the basement and ensuite flush properly
19. Make the vacuum cleaner suck (more)  - Replaced the canister.
20. Fix or replace the vacuum cleaner sweep plate (with the new canister, it just works now)
21. Install garburator
22. Clean main bathroom light fixture
23. Organize pantry
24. Shelf liners for pantry, pot drawer
25. Touch up blue paint
26. Touch up white paint drips
27. Replace leaky dishwasher
28. Weed/mow/trim/prune 
29. Organize tools
30. Figure out snow removal (bought a blade to go with my quad on the day of a 12-inch dump of snow.  It works.)
31. Clean garbage out of composts
32. Power for garburator
33. Power in kitchen island
34. Touch up ceiling paint in basement and kitchen
35. Plant trees to block off the neighbour’s shed
36. Get hot tub running
37. Get quad starting and running well
38. Organize freezers
39. Replace bulb in microwave
40. Move stones from scattered randomly over the yard to a pile
41. Attach the bathroom fan exhaust hoses to the roof vents
42. Replace bathroom baseboards (removed for tiling)
43. Touch up paint at colour changes
44. Clean fans in boys’ bedrooms
45. Shampoo kitchen chairs, couch cushions
46. Replace screens in boys’ bedrooms
47. Replace weather strip at garage doors
48. Replace weather strip at garage man doors
49. Replace weather strip at main entrance door
50. Clean kitchen lights
51. Move fireplace
52. Fill fishpond (with dirt)
53. Level sandbox (dig into the hill) and then fill sandbox (with sand)
54. Plant lilac
55. Plant oak
56. Finish drywall repairs in basement hallway
57. Touch up red paint 
58. [Gravel truck]Add gravel to driveway 
59. Clean the old place.
60. Clean the new place.
61. Paint (and patch, and re-paint) the new place
62. Pack and move everything from one to the other.
63. Install a new kitchen faucet – the cheapest available, so that the sink doesn’t leak into the cabinet
64. Replace almost every bulb in the place with bulbs that were either not dead, or put out light
65. Put tiles around the ensuite shower and main bathtub
66. Install another new kitchen faucet – this time, one we like.
67. Find the yard, somewhere under all the weeds
68. Find the garden – spray it, scythe it, and rototill it.  Then repeat a couple of times.
69. Unclog the drain in the main bathtub
70. Unclog the drain in the half bath sink
71. Unclog the drain in the ensuite sink
72. Figure out where the water pressure all went
73. Fix the hot water flow
74. Get internet installed
75. Get lawnmower working
76. Fix tire on lawnmower
77. Haul truckloads of junk to the dump
78. Fix leaky kitchen sink

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Total:  31+78 = 109 entries