Baby steps.

Another weekend has come and gone.  We had a couple of things come up that hindered progress this weekend.  I burned the belt up on the mower deck last weekend and thought I had found a less expensive option to replace the Deere belt.  After fighting with it for an hour or so, and talking to David about it, I realized the belt would not work because it has to be a double v belt.

 

So, inside we went to install two lights we bought last week.  As I was removing the light for the hallway from the box, the globe shattered in my hand.  Before heading to Hot Springs to exchange it we went ahead and installed the bathroom light to make sure there were no problems with it.

Back hallway light.  13" integrated LED.

Bathroom light.  12.8" integrated LED

On the way back from Hot Springs we found out Deb's Grandpa had a spell that morning and was at the hospital in Stuttgart being prepped to be transported to Big Baptist in Little Rock.  So we got the replacement hallway light installed and off to Little Rock we went to meet up with her family at the hospital.

 

Sunday, Deb headed back to Little Rock.  Grandpa was doing better so I stayed home and worked some.  After finishing up cleaning the walls in the sewing room and vacuuming the wood shavings from the rewiring job, I looked at the area of wall we were planning to put the closet door from the master bedroom and decided I might as well go ahead and knock the fire blocks out.

 

 

As I was removing the nails from the studs, I noticed the studs I needed to remove were easy to move around and obviously weren't supporting much (if any) weight.  So I threw caution to the wind and went ahead and removed them and cut out the door.

 

 

 

Boy, was it hard (emotionally) to cut through that old knotty pine, but in the end it had to be done.  We had thought most of the doors in the house were 32" but upon closer inspection (and using a tape measure) I concluded they were mostly 30" doors.  So I Googled the dimensions to rough in for a 30" prehung door and went ahead and roughed in the frame work.  I was able to reuse both 2 x 4's and had some sandwiched 2 x 4's from the wall we took out of the living/dining room which I used for the header.  In the end, I only needed one new 2 x 4 to frame the door.

 

 

The light for the half bath came in Monday and we installed it last night.

 

More LED bulbs.  I'm pretty sure we can run most of the lights in this house for about the same price as a couple of rooms in most homes.