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Preparing a House for Sale

 

 

A friend of a friend is moving to Little Rock and asked me to fix a couple of things to help get their house ready for sale.  This included changing out three faucets, a garbage disposal, fixing a wood floor and painting a kitchen ceiling.

Sue and I began by doing some window shopping and emailing the homeowners with their options and all up costs.

They liked what they saw, bought the materials and I got started.

 

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A leaking door ruined a couple of boards.

The boards will need replacing, and something needs to be done about that leak.

 

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The old disposal had a pea sized hole knocked in the grinding chamber.

 

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Putting the new one in was my first task.

And it actually went in pretty easily.

 

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Here's a sample of the original twenty year old faucets.

 

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Whoever put them in sure used a lot of plumbers putty.

 

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After cleaning up the sink, the new ones looked a lot better.

But the second one I put in didn't match the first - it was a different finish.  The lady of the house noticed, so I took it out and she went and got the right ones.

 

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And, yes, I even got through this little opening to get one of them done.

 

 

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The homeowner had done a big patch in the ceiling right in front of the light fixture.

Hopefully some sealer and paint will cover it all up.

 

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I started by taping off the boarder and putting on a coat of Kilz2 sealer.

 

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I opened the can of ceiling paint and got a surprize.

It was pink!

Turns out the color was an aid to getting an even coverage, it dried a pure white.

 

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I found one of the reasons for the ruined floor when we got over two inches of rain.  The window in the door leaked pretty good.

 

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The next day I pulled up the ruined boards and took the mullion off the inside of the door.

 

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I caulked all around the glass.

It took over three tubes to fill that big gap all the way around.

 

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Then I fiddled with the dishwasher and it flooded the kitchen.

No points for quessing what my advice was to the homeowners.  

 

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