Just finished putting the first coat of paint on the window and door trim. I have one propak. This means I have 12, 14 foot pieces. They were pre-primed. I figure if I put 2 coats of paint on them and then one more coat once they are on the wall to touch up and cover over the spots I filled the holes where the nails went. I should be in good shape.
I hope to put a coat of paint on the shoe molding tomorrow. I have 2 paks of that. There are a total of 20, 10 foot peices that I will have to paint there. Those are actually primed nicely. I may only need one coat on those and then another to touch up after they are on the wall. If I get right on it tomorrow I may be able to finish up the window in the office tomorrow evening. I would like to try to get shoe molding and door trim up around all the doors at the bottom of the stairs first. I need to fix the door into the utility room a bit and I need to redo the whole french door. I really messed that one up.
Posted in Basement.
By james
– January 14, 2006
Went and rented the home depot truck today. Picked up 2 pro-paks of baseboard molding and one pro-pak of window and door trim. Both have been pre-primed. I will plan to lay them out this week and get a coat of paint on them this week. I plan to get the trim installed asap. We went and picked out carpet today. In the next week I hope to get things lined up with a installer and get the carpet ordered. I have plenty to do in the basement again. This trim will keep me busy for a few weeks easy. I want everything to look professional so I will probably take to much time.
Posted in Basement.
By james
– January 14, 2006
Just submitted an order for a few video cables from www.monoprice.com. I had been searching for good prices on good cables for sometime now. I was very impressed with the prices at monoprice. Today I finally made an order. I ordered a 25 foot hdmi cable, 25 foot component cable, 25 foot svideo with audio cable and a dvi to hdmi adapter. Total cost of the order was 62 bucks with shipping. Not a bad price at all. I needed a 20 foot cable to run through the conduit to the location of the projector (not yet purchased). 25 feet was the closest I could get and afew extra feet should be fine. I will post again when I get everything hooked up and working. It will be a few months but when I get it all going I will post as to the quality of the cables and the video picture on the screen. I hope it was a good choice.
Posted in Electronics.
By james
– January 12, 2006
I have been working on the basement everyday since last week. Utility room is getting cleaned up. I still have a bunch to go through and a bunch to throw out also. I have trimmed out the window in the office and I am working on the windows in the main room. There is still plenty to on the basement. I hope to get the paint touched up this weekend and maybe finish up the two windows. I hope to pick up most of the trim this week or next so I can keep going on the finsh work in the basement. Little by little it will get completed.
Posted in Basement.
By james
– January 9, 2006
I now have a new plugin that will allow me to mail a subscriber base anytime. It will also allow you to subscribe to certain categories or all blog posts if you would like. Then you can get notifications when I update the blog. Just enter your email address below and hit subscribe.
Posted in Blog Stuff.
By james
– January 4, 2006
Well here are the pictures of the projector screen I made that I previously mentioned here, here, here and here. I believe the screen turned out better than I expected.
Posted in Basement.
By james
– January 4, 2006
We just took down the tree and inside decorations this morning. I plan to take down the outside stuff in a few minutes. It is time to clean out the storage area in the basement. I have been putting this off for a long time. I have to get that organized this week or next. It is time to get things moving on the utility room and the rest of the basement. Back to the hour to two hours a night on the basement. I will go pick up a few carpet samples in the next few weeks also.
Posted in General.
By james
– January 3, 2006
It was just brought to my attention that I never posted pictures of the projector screen I made. I just took a few pictures and I will post them tomorrow. I might actually buy a projector in the next month also.
Posted in General.
By james
– January 3, 2006
I am in search of a good firewall appliance. I currently use clarkconnect 3.0. I am going to try out clarkconnect 3.2. I really like that distro but would like to have a more general distro if possible. I use the box to backup my other boxes on the network. It is my main web server. I run asterisk on it also. If you have any recommendations let me know and I will give it a try.
Posted in General.
By james
– December 29, 2005
The last few days I have not been feeling good at all. Yesterday it hit me hard. I slept most of the evening. I feel a bit better today, but not back 100%. I had to move my office at work today. Was not looking forward to that at all. Had to switch with another person and also work on moving a few other things around. We have the electrician out tomorow to finish up the rest of the move. I have settled in and have almost everything back to normal. I hope to relax tonight and hopefully feel much better tomorrow.
Posted in General.
By james
– December 29, 2005
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