My hat is off to you Dan. Sounds like a lot of work; but, I know the personal satisfaction you will gain will be more than what the project cost.
Terry On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 19:35:42 -0400you write: > >Hardly leaves you any time to make that crib or dresser or changing table... >----- Original Message ----- >From: Dan Rossi >To: Blind Handyman List >Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 10:20 AM >Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Of doors and walls. > > > > > >As I sit here at work, two guys are at my house bricking up my kitchen >door. This was a door leading from my kitchen to the back steps. Since I >put the deck in, and opened the dining room wall for French doors out onto >the deck, the kitchen door became unnecessary. > >Last evening, I gently removed the trim from the doorway and the small >window next to the door. I removed the Aluminum storm door and trim from >the outside, and cleaned up the enormous amount of black soot that poured >out of the wall as I pulled off the trim. > >The masons will be bricking up the small window and the lower part of the >doorway. I'll install a window in the upper part of the door hole, then >frame in the inside wall. > >I'll leave the plaster work for later since we will be doing a major >kitchen project in the fall and will have a professional do the plaster >work when I am done ripping out walls, ceiling, stripping the plaster off >the chimney to do that exposed brick look, and pull all the cabinets down. > >So many projects, so little time. > >-- >Blue skies. >Dan Rossi >Carnegie Mellon University. >E-Mail: [email protected] >Tel: (412) 268-9081
