Published on
March 31, 2009 in
House.
Notice the distinct lack of scaffolding in our stairwell! We finished the trim at the top of the stairwell and were able to take the scaffolding out last week. The scaffolding has been there for basically a year so it’s a pretty big milestone!
We also have a very large pile ($1000+ worth) of knotty pine board which have been ripped, routered and sanded to form our window trim, door trim and wall trim and are now going through the process of being finished with Danish oil. Having a kitty in the house complicates things as we end up with dusty little footprints on the trim if we don’t keep the trim covered up. Hopefully the floors will be cleaned up soon so she doesn’t have dirty feet anymore!
Last night I bottled my first batch of home brew I have made since my bachelor days at the party house on Kensington Road 10+ years ago. I made a Festa Brew cream ale and put 63 bottles of the stuff away to carbonate and age!
It’s a process that I remember being a lot more work than it was this time, mind you I was using a premium kit that only required you to pour in the wort and add the yeast to a brewing pail this time. I really enjoyed the beer making process and hope to have more time to make my own beer at home when we move into the new house. At less than $40 for the kit, sugar and caps it’s a pretty cheap deal (about $0.65 a beer!) and being unpasteurized, “alive” beer it’s probably good for your system in moderation! (the yeasty sediment is supposed to be good for your septic system so it should be good for your digestive system too right?!) I am also considering looking into trying beer making from scratch. A lot more work, but a useful skill when the world collapses and brewery made beer is a thing of the past (hahaha, or maybe not so haha….)
In a few weeks I will be able to crack open a bottle and see whether my efforts have yielded tasty suds or bland duds, I will let you know either way…. 
Published on
March 16, 2009 in
House.
Today we finished painting the bathtub (sorry no photos) and putting in the waterproof membrane in the shower stall. The cement board was installed last week and the new cedar ceiling on Saturday so the only thing left to do to get the bathroom ready for floor tiles was to install the membrane. We’re leaving the wall membrane till later as the plumbing for the shower fixture needs to be roughed in yet and we aren’t getting the plumber back till we have the floor tile done and tub in place, sort of a chicken and egg thing.
We have also sanded, planed and routered the baseboard for the chase and applied two coats of danish . We will be adding a coat of carnuba wax on top of that and they’ll be ready to go on. We have definately turned a corner to finish work on the house, tomorrow evening I will be picking up the finish paint colour and some more trim, and this week some serious cleanup action will happen so we can work with the trim in a clean environment!
Here are some more photos of the shower stall, imagine the floor with tumbled hexagon tiles, the curved wall with polished hexagon tile, the flat walls with polished rectangular tile, and the floor outside the shower with 12″ x 24″ tiles. Hopefully the floor tiles will be installed next weekend!
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