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Another laywer at Bri's firm asked me to come over and do some overdue fix up work on their home. It included a patching a dining room wall, improving a fireplace, regrouting a shower and replacing two entry hall lights.
Here is the dining room wall with cracks and separating joint tape.
Spring UnBreak Some Timely Home Repairs and Upgrades
Another laywer at Bri's firm asked me to come over and do some overdue fix up work on their home. It included a patching a dining room wall, improving a fireplace, regrouting a shower and replacing two entry hall lights. Here is the dining room wall with cracks and separating joint tape.
And here is a better shot.
I removed all the joint tape and the wall board surface along the edge crack then filled it all with fiberglass tape.
Here is the first layer of mud. It takes two in total.
I color matched a new gallon of paint at Sherwin Williams, put it on and the wall looks good as new.
The entry hall has a 15' high sloped ceiling with two hanging chandellers. They didn't like the style and wanted to replace the fixtures with recessed lighting.
I was lucky that the homeowners had their own 12' step ladder so I didn't have to cart over my own! The old fixtures came down easy enough and I cut new 6" openings for the pot lights.
However, the bars holding the old boxes were installed between the sheetrock ceiling and the rafters - meaning any torque applied in removing them had a good chance of damaging the ceiling. So I went over to the boy's house (which was only 15 minutes away) and borrowed Jay's reciprocating saw. It cut the bars in two and I was able to move each end sideways, out of the way.
Adding the pot lights was easy after that. We went with the eye-ball style because of the sloped ceiling. I also changed out one of the controlling three way switches for one with a dimmer.
The result was a more wide open space, still well lighted. Nice.
The homeowner's dog, Trevor, kept a watchful eye on me throughout all this. He was really well behaved.
Then there was the fireplace. Those are rust streaks on the doors. It seems they had a water problem. The first step is to find it.
The roof and flashings looked fine and I was at a loss until I had a closer look at the fireplace's exterior surround. I noticed a number of holes in the mortar around their flagstone facing.
As I said, there were more than one.
I bought a 'mortar caulk' repair and used it to plug the holes. I guess if the mortar had been cleaner it would have matched better.
At least now I hoped it was water tight. And so it proved, because the next day it rained and the fireplace stayed dry.
So on the inside I started by removing the glass doors and wire screens. I then hit all the rust with a wire wheel and applied two coats of black hi-temp paint. The homeowner didn't want the doors or screens back on. It looks much better and is safe given it's now a gas unit.
The water also damaged the mantel a bit. It's going to take days to dry out before I can do a repair. So that will have to wait til at least next week.
The remaing job was the master shower. All the corner joints were cracked as was much of the grout.
I removed all the cracked grout then applied new to the entire interior of the shower. After that set up I used caulk on all the corner joints.
The result looked good as new. The homeowner was pleased, and so was I.
Some BONUS stuff.
The week prior we had babysat the grandkids on Thursday. Isaac is growing like a weed.
Reagan was content to use grandpa's laptop most of the day.
Bri and Chris came over to pick up Chris' bike (which was stored in our garage for Bri's basement project) so we took a group photo. Everyone but Isaac gave it a thumbs up!
This weekend we need to get caught up around our house. Monday we'll take the boy's the sink base we built. So till next time, everyone take care.
Another laywer at Bri's firm asked me to come over and do some overdue fix up work on their home. It included a patching a dining room wall, improving a fireplace, regrouting a shower and replacing two entry hall lights.
Here is the dining room wall with cracks and separating joint tape.
Another laywer at Bri's firm asked me to come over and do some overdue fix up work on their home. It included a patching a dining room wall, improving a fireplace, regrouting a shower and replacing two entry hall lights.
Here is the dining room wall with cracks and separating joint tape.
I was lucky that the homeowners had their own 12' step ladder so I didn't have to cart over my own! The old fixtures came down easy enough and I cut new 6" openings for the pot lights.
However, the bars holding the old boxes were installed between the sheetrock ceiling and the rafters - meaning any torque applied in removing them had a good chance of damaging the ceiling. So I went over to the boy's house (which was only 15 minutes away) and borrowed Jay's reciprocating saw. It cut the bars in two and I was able to move each end sideways, out of the way.
The roof and flashings looked fine and I was at a loss until I had a closer look at the fireplace's exterior surround. I noticed a number of holes in the mortar around their flagstone facing.
Another laywer at Bri's firm asked me to come over and do some overdue fix up work on their home. It included a patching a dining room wall, improving a fireplace, regrouting a shower and replacing two entry hall lights.
Here is the dining room wall with cracks and separating joint tape.
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