Feb 24

I swear to criminies  I've messed with every damn door in this house several times.   I've spent so much time on doors, I'm thinking of having an open concept house with no doors anywhere next time.   Just a series of doorways and maybe an electric fence at the front and back for security.

The back door started peeling already.   I didnt prep the door good enough before painting, so I scraped and prepped.  Then I tried to fix the mess that is the area around the knobs.  Again.

Then I installed the locks on the upstairs back door and tried to fix the rather large gap.

Then I tried to fix the striker area on the front door.  This I did before, but it needed to be cleaned up - a lot.  It was just wood filler pushed in there to make it work.   Now I put in wood filler to make it look like a real door frame again.  Then, in doing this, noticed one hinge was loose, tried to fix it and ended up having to refix all 3 hinges, just so the door will close.   How does this happen??

Then later tonight, I decided to put on the closet door, and that didnt want to go on.  We used round headed screws because at the time we didnt have short enough wood scews, and now we sort of did - if I took a 1 inch wood screw and trimmed off the tip, it worked.   So I put that door back up.

Then as I was about to go to bed, I tried to close the basement door as I do for the night, and it wouldnt close.   The hinges had come loose.  I tried longer screws, but they were already 2.5 inches.  So I had to take that door apart and fix that one too.  Yes, its seems like its just door after door after door. 

Or sink after sink.

We bought a nice sink months ago.  But turns out it was too large for our cabinet.  So I bought one the other day that was the right size.   But it was a style they no longer sold clips for.  So I exhanged both of these at ReStore for a new one which uses the new style clips, but although it would fit in the cabinet, it the mounting clips would have to be inside the cabinets on either side of the sink cabinet - a logistical nightmare, so I bit the bullet and bought a new sink.   I even paid an extra $20 and didnt get the cheapest one.  The installation was easy - less than an hour - compared to the 5-6 hours of shopping to arrive at this sink.   :)

Ryan and Dad came over today.   Ryan drywalled up several remaining holes (3 in the closet and 1 in the laundry) and that may be it for drywall patches.  He also made ceiling patch/covers for the pipes, something I kept meaning to get around to.

Dad scraped the bathroom some more and plans to work on some painting tomorrow if time permits.

I installed the new light in the closet, but the switch just outside the closet does not turn it on and off.   Its been months since a light bulb was in there, but I swear that switch used to go to that light - but it must not have - its not even on the same circuit.  Plus, there used to be a chain switch on the old light socket, but I never remember a chain hanging down.  Anyway, its not a switched circuit and we cant figure out how to get power to the box, so I blank-plated it, and will put a chain switch on the light.

I put up some mini blinds around the place and put up the railing on the stairway.