Life... became a professor in 2009 and then got into lots of house/misc projects
August 2010
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August 2010 - rebuild the boat
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2011 Feb 02. Got some snow.
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July 2011 - boat is back in Canada (never replaced the canopy...)
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2011 July 4
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June 2011 - Dad's little Sylvan gets a floor
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2011 December. Replace the water heater.
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Done in one day.
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April 2013 - basement office reno
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Basement office done. July-ish 2013
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March 2014 - Start of kitchen reno
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December 2014 - We did everything - only thing we had somone do was the granite countertops. We built the cabinets, did th eelectrical (including a new subpanel), plumbing, new floors, painting, appliance installs, lights, drywall, cleanup...
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2014 - Aug Master Bedroom closets
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July 2016 - new windows
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We did all the windows in the house... replacement inserts. The first took us 5-6 hours. By the end, we could replace a window in about 90 minutes.
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2016 Summer - paint the house (Carmen did LOTS of the work)
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2017 Dec. This is going to be our new house...
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nice kitchen
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This is our bathroom...
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View out of the master bedroom (11x12...) to the garage.
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The stairs to the attic are shot - needs to be held up with a stick!
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Back of garage showing a huge shed (at right) and a wierd extension on the back of the garage.
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Sanded and put several coats of poly. Well, Carmen put the poly while I drank coffss.
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Garage roof after cutting out the hole in the roof where the neighbors said the 'coons were getting in. I found one dead and fully dried out raccoon in the garage. Yummy.
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Bye-Bye Mr. Shed. We had to get a permit to take this down.
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July 2018 - Dad and I went to Oshkosh for the day. Got a photo of Dan Niendorff's 801.
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We replaced ALL the windows.
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Nice hat.
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We had it like this for ~2 days. Lucky we have understanding neighbors!
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We got some great neighbors. You know how people say \"let me know if you need any help\" and things like that? Well, I needed some help with this huge window and the neighbors really stepped up!
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Fixed the fence.
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Fixed the garage wall
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The window came from the farm in Harrisville.
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We paid a company to do the siding and the roof. Siding was done in a day. Roofing was another day. Gutters were done in a few hours.
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Bye-Bye Mr. Weird-Garage-Extension-that-is-all-moldy
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We had to get a permit to take this down.
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Side of the garage is a little strange with the T-11 siding but it's better than before and not such an eyesore.
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Cold-storage room in the basement. Dank-dark-but with a nice sump pit (we already replaced that sump pump...)
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Storage room. Much nicer.
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Breezeway as we got it. No photo of the ceiling - it was wood panel that was hanging down and moldy from a water leak...
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Breezeway at the side door -
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Carmen tried out some stenciling.
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1/4 drywall on the ceilings. Paint and new trim.
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Hall closet #1. House came with no interior doors including no door on this closet. Well, we'd rather have drawers and shelves so let's turn this into a built-in.
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Nice gut. Nice chin.
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Hallway closet with doors. Look like it was there all along.
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This is the bathroom as we bought the place. Already gutted except for the toilet. I tried to talk Carmen into keeping those sweet pink tile soap holders...
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The ceiling has copper tubes - part of the original heating system in the house that used a boiler and circulated hot water through the ceiling.
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Our neighbor is a tile guy and he did this old-school mud base and helped shim the studs for the goboard. We did the tile work. Carmen is really good with tile.
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Small and simple
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Oct 2019 We had a 5.6 kW solar system put on the house. (We did not do this ourselves...)
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Hmmm. That door looks kinda bad.
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Looks kinda better.
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Santa gave us an early present - a cement mixer.
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Hmmm.. That garage does not look so nice...
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Ben made those cabinets last summer. There is a 4' bench as well.
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The unskilled labor.
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The boss.
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August 2020. The pandemic pig. Got this iberico puerco from Florida. Shared it with the neighbors. Kurt and Sharon came by too (properly distanced). Not a bad pig for people that are 90% vegetarian.
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AIRPLANE PARTS!!!
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