After taking out the lightboxes in the living room, it left big holes in the ceiling! We need to patch 6 of them! Continue reading →

We spent more that 8 hours cleaning the mess the plumber and the electricians made. We also had to reinstall the plywood floor. We first had to screw a new stud beside the existing one then screw the planks into that. Continue reading →

The temperature in the house dipped to 18.5 C so it was time to turn on the our Slant Fin boiler system which our electrician says it’s the Cadillac of furnaces. The user manual for the boiler has many wiring diagrams but no helpful information on how to actually use it. I winged it and … Continue reading →

The electricians were here for 2 days adding outlets for the new kitchen in the bachelor apartment, separating the basement circuits into a subpanel and splitting an overloaded circuit on the main floor. They had to fish cables through the walls, ceiling and floors and I was amazed by how quickly they did it. It … Continue reading →

I have to admit that the installation of the drain in the basement went smoothly. After 2 hours of jackhammering, the plumber managed to tap into one of the floor drains. Continue reading →