Home improvement Journal 2-6 to 2-28-2009

2/6
Bought house!!

2/7
Moved in to home w/ help of 4th and 8th wards.

2/9
Installed dimmer switch in boys' room.

2/10
Melanie installed vent to upper vent in downstairs fam room.

2/11
Removed baseboard heater in downstairs fam room. It was 10 feet long.

2/12
Furnace stopped working. Naturally. The day after we took out the big baseboard heater.

2/13
Dave the heater guy came and repaired thermal coupler in Furnace. Removed door to basement kitchen. Moved 240 plug from wall to new location for stove on future wall. Mapped cabinets. Setup new computer desk and couch from Margi.

2/14
Aaron started framing wall for downstairs utility. Aaron moved old wall and took off sheetrock for new hall.











2/16
Dad and Aaron framed in hall, cut door opening for fam room and framed in enclosure for furnace and water heater and framed in closet for future bedroom.

2/17
Installed heat duct through boy's closet into wall.

2/18
Built bathroom cabinets and hung on walls.

2/19
Installed boy's bath hardware, decorated bathrooms.

2/20
Hoked up 220 plug in downstairs utility wall, hung curtains in master br.

2/23
Installed boxes for plugs in downstairs utility and guest br.

2/24
Installed plug for SE corner in downstairs Fam Room.

2/25
Hung curtains in boys room upstairs (pooh bear curtains Andrew picked out)

2/26
Hung boys curtains downstairs. Wired hall plug downstairs, moved kitchen light, ran power to 1/2 1st circuit in new wires. Hired Briggs Electric to re-do outside electrical panel and replace both electric boxes for $2250 ($750 trade, 1500 out of pocket) And Dad sold a cow in our name today for $1200 making our expense now for the new panels only $300. The Lord is blessing us.

2/27
Installed 1 outlet in new BR and one in utility. Ate lunch with Nathan at his school.

2/28
Installed final 2 outlets on 1st circuit. Pulled cable to switch box and to tv receptacle. Installed J-box for fam room circuit. Ran cable to SE fam rm corner. Tried to run cable to light fixture in fam room and ran into a two layer tin box, got through 1st layer, not second yet. Studied 3-way light switches again. Bought remaining material for garage pipe and electrical for downstairs and garage. Melanie painted our A-board and Alta and I painted our waiting room and massage room.