Archive for March, 2009

Garage Door Opener

Friday, March 13th, 2009

So Brandon finally finished getting one of the garage doors openers installed. The opener is called the “Excelerator”. It opens twice as fast a normal opening speed. It’s a screw drive which is pretty nice. It sounds noisy in the video, but really it’s not. Most times I can’t hear it open from the upstairs office. You can hear it from the master bedroom a bit, but that because the rails are old and right below our room. We are getting new doors and rails as soon as he gets the other opener installed.

Also, I would like to thank Jeremy for helping Brandon install it and for finding the instructions. That saved us a lot of time!!

It’s March already?!?

Sunday, March 8th, 2009

Ugh, I can’t beleive it’s already March. This year is flying by, but I definately looking forward to spring. Things are progressing and we are getting close to getting floors. We finished the living room and dining (with newly added crown molding) and I am currently working on the foyer. I’m debating whether to put on a coat now or call it a night. Work has been so crazy, that I don’t seem to get much done during the week. We decided to do a little bit of extra work and replace the door casings around the doors on the first floor. I removed the casing tonight and of course was a little more work than I bargined for. Hopefully it will look nice with nice crisp clean moldings and casings. Whoever painted the millwork simply did not care what it looked like and basically screwed it up. Would have taken hours of sanding to get it decent… ergo, we are installing new casing.

Brandon has been working on the kitchen. The soffit is all out and patched up (for the most part). We had lights installed and I didn’t confirm the exact placement with the electrician, so we have to move one of them because it might hit the crown molding around the cabinets. Ugh.

Our goal is May. Sadly, this goal is ambitious. We still have to paint the family room and kitchen and install crown molding in the foyer and family room. We also have to sand and paint the doors, remove the rest of the foyer tile, pick up the subfloor and remove all the nails. There are about 20 other things on list, but those are the major things. I took a few pictures, but I am little to tired to go get the camera. Nothing new, just lots of construction zones happening. With every new area we tackle, another room just gets dirtier.