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While painting ranks up there with plumbing as things that I would just rather not do. Painting isn’t actually that bad but the amount of prep work that you have to do in order to get to the painting is friggin ridiculous. Clear > patch > repair > re-texture > wash down > tape and…

I used the rest of the joint compound that I had to finish up the last un-textured part of the wall, then we took the TV off the wall and found another spot. So I could go to Ace and get the joint compound for $5.99 or drive all the way to Lowe’s to get…

So the holdup on progress has been how to match the texture of the as is. Well it seems that there’s a crows feet brush and it seemed to work well. It’s drying now and hopefully holds well when it gets painted. On another note, the Xterra is riding like a brick. I ordered $500…

While it still wasn’t easy, the oscillating tool made short work of getting the piece to replace the ironing board. Also is a picture of the before of the under sill, its scary…

Slowly but surely, it’s getting there. After getting rid of the ants, we got some spray foam and drywall to fix the ingress area under the window sill. I’ve always had an issue doing drywall work because it’s such a pain in the ass to cut. In carving out pieces from the 8 x 4…

So awhile back I noticed that ants had been making a track into the attic. I put some bait traps out and then I saw them on the other north side window. I sprayed it and tons of dead ant bodies fell out and I thought that would be it. I had seen them inside…

Made a trek to Harbor Freight today and continued progress on the back room. Needed a scraper that was longer than 12 inches so got the 48 inch floor scraper. It made short work of scraping the floor and getting the remnants of carpet padding and glue off the floor. Still a bit of work…