I have bird problems. They're in everything.
Need to dig out my roll of chicken wire and go to town.
They're above the insulation on the old side of the shop, they're in my attic due to some missing trim that I was only thinking of weather-tight when I saw and ignored, and they're in my drier vent. The one acceptable place they're in is the propane tank hatch for the shop.
Found drawings from 1984 of the standard configuration for this 1988 build. Confirmed the strong suspicion of modular, shows where the 4 pieces broke up (no surprises)
The water is a fun project as long as the sump pumps keep working. If they don't, that's a lil problem.
The disconnected battery backup is present, need to evaluate that.
Oil furnace doesn't light. Hydronic heater shows no water pressure though valves are open.
Shop needs new lower power and more effective lights.
LOVE the property.
Road noise isn't much of a bother.
Working in the shop office is everything I dreamed of.
Miss a sidewalk between shop and house, but from back door off the deck to the shop is a dry route even when it's soggy.
overwhelming in all regards to have this large an increase in space.
4 months on, no longer overwhelmed. Feels like I'm were I belong. Sarah agrees, and the kids seem to agree too.
I think it'll be another year before anything feels "done" but so much progress has been made that it feels like we're reaching a plateau of done-ness.
- Prescient on my sump pump mentions above.
- Still need to clean up and reinstall mop board in the dining room, but the awful wallpaper is gone. Next time I get bored and want to work in the house, I have a flooring product picked out to get rid of the 5 sections of 1st floor flooring across 3 rooms. Tempted to wait on mop board but I want to wait a couple years to do floor.
- No mice caught in the house in at least 2 months.
- surprise rotten basement window replaced.
- hope to steal some good wood from that window to fix a rotten front frame on the front bay window. that needs to be my next project.
- have a new control wire from thermostat to furnace to run, in order to run the fan on the furnace. Right now it's single wire, so no heat from the fireplaces will ever move around the building 🙄 I expect I'll be wanting to get a thermostat with remote sensors to keep upstairs bedrooms warm enough, but maybe running the fan will equalize things well enough?
- need to buy some tons of wood and decide where-how to store it. I can easily put 2-4 tons in the house garage but the forklift is a foot too tall. Probably steal the pallet jack from work for an evening to place that 👍
- should probably sweep my chimneys, bet they've been as neglected as everything else.
- I'm sure I'll miss that sidewalk to the shop, but I bet I can just commute in Gus and not give a fuck