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01/14/2007
I have the Power
I've been helping a couple of my friends renovate a house they just bought. Yesterday, we were working on tearing out the floor in one room and the ceiling in another. I got to use... (drumroll)... power tools! Now for anyone who knows me, and knows how much of a klutz I can be, this can be a scary concept, but I actually did OK. I was able to use a drill, no problem, and even using the reciprocating saw went off with almost no hitch. (I saw almost because I did have plaster dust in my eyes for a while after... even with glasses!) That was all pretty cool though. Now I feel like I can do anything.
Tearing up the floor was interesting, seeing the sort of flooring they used to have in this house. They laid carpet right over the old floor, which was a wood veneer floor with some coloured rectangles painted onto it. It looks to be from the 50s or 60s, and kind of like something you might find in a bowling alley or disco club. Taking that stuff off was easy in some places, coming off in large sections, and hard in other places, not coming off at all! There's a tar backing on the stuff, and in some places it looks like animals peed on it, which seems to have had the effect of dissolving the tar and bonding it like crazy glue to the plywood below.
Anyway, it's pretty interesting. The ceiling in the other room (which is where the reciprocating saw came to be used) is almost down, exposing the second ceiling above it.
All in all, this is going to be quite the renovation. I've been shopping for chandeliers and gas fireplaces with them so far, but we didn't come back from those trips with anything but a Tinkerbell desk lamp. Now let's just hope their baby is a girl!
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Hey, another blogging cellist!
Nice blog.
I've been assembling a list of cellist bloggers in my blog's sidebar - now there are 46 of us!
Posted by: Guanaco | 01/15/2007
The most important is the healthy baby.
Posted by: Logan | 01/18/2007
Logan - yes, the health of the baby is the most important. We discovered some beautiful oak stairs under the carpet, but they're old and painted, and the paint likely contains lead. We will definitely be very careful! Fortunately my pregnant friend isn't around much when we work on the renos.
Posted by: Louise | 01/27/2007
Guanaco - glad you like the blog! Maybe next post I'll talk about cello again. It seems to have a disproportionately small amount of "air time" on this blog, compared to how much it seems to run my life! Thanks for stopping by.
Posted by: Louise | 01/27/2007