Home Improvements

From Gothpoodle

Listed in order of importance/projected time frame.

Completed:

• 7/09/05: Carpeted upstairs side bedroom.
• 3/31/06: Replaced carpeting in living room, all hallways, and stairway.
• 8/18/06: Ripped out bushes in the front of the house.
• 9/15/06: Replaced all the windows in the front room.
• 9/17/06: Replaced the water-damaged clapboard.
• 9/18/06: Windows wrapped with vinyl trim, clapboard primed with one coat.
• 11/03/06: Put in a new side (security) door.
• 7/18/07: Had the house repainted.
• 10/29/07: Put new release valve on furnace.
• 2/22/08: Replaced side door (cosmetic damage on original installation).

Current:

• Paint garage and arbor. (Third week of May.)
• Touch up chipping portions on house. (Third week of May.)
• Fence off back of property. (Oneida Fence, after painting.)
• Landscape the side of the house.
• Landscape the front and back of the house.
• Replace the windows in the upstairs bedrooms and in the bathroom.

2008:

• Install new furnace.
• Install new hot water tank.
• Install radiator covers.
• Finish the kitchen (cap pipes, re-walling, fixing damaged floor).
• Rip down old and put in new gutters.
• Fix wiring and install light fixture in back hallway.
• Fix porch light.
• Install new doorbell.
• Refinish sun room floor.
• Refinish dining room floor.

Maybes:

• Install block windows in the basement.
• Reconstruct front steps and pillar.
• Replace the windows in the downstairs bedrooms.
• Replace the windows in living room, dining room, and stairs.
• Redo the first floor bathroom.

Ongoing:

• Random painting throughout the house.
• Random patching.
• Replace old carpeting.
• Carpet last bedroom.
• New doors throughout the house.