It's been a few days.. so what have we been up to? Does this answer your question?
We have gotten a lot accomplished on the house in the past few days. I finally finished prepping all of the baseboards to be painted and have primed about half of them now. I also bought most of the blinds for the house and installed 5 sets so far. The first set took me at least an hour or two. It was pure misery. But apparently there is a steep learning curve on those things because I installed the next 4 in about the same amount of time. I am also stoked because I found some roman shades for $20 at Home Depot.. obviously they are not real roman shades but they are exactly what I was looking for for our bedroom.
From the picture above, yesterday Matt blew insulation into the entire attic over the entire house. If you buy 20 bags of the blow-in insulation from Home Depot you get the machine for free for a day. We had bought one bag that Matt had pulled apart by hand and it was awful. So he talked with the guys at Home Depot about the machine and they told him this deal. It is really a two man job - one to blow it in and one to keep reloading the machine but Matt did it all himself, what a trooper. Running up and down the attic stairs to refill the machine. We even got to return 2 bags in the end that we didn't use.
We went to Home Depot 4 times yesterday. We did try Lowe's last weekend and I actually didn't really like it so we are now true Home Depot shoppers. So about those baseboards.. not sure how bright the white is that I am going to paint them but the primer is pretty bright. In fact, if you look closely you can tell it doesn't match the door frames and windows. I am inclined to paint the door frames as well but the prepping would take me another week. Knowing me I'll probably go through with it, but we'll see.
Also, does anyone have a reciprocating saw we can borrow?
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Going to Home Depot? We'll see you there
Posted by julie at 7:59 AM
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2 comments:
Oh no - Matt has gray hair - Julie, what are you doing to the guy!!!
I need insulation in my attic... how much does it cost to rent Matt for the day??
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