1) Mowed front and south side lawn (didn't mow north side near AC compressor).
2) Setup Insteon network and got it to control new Patio light and pre-existing X10 Kitchen light. I wrote an earlier post about this, which took about 10 hours of fiddling to get working.
3) Moved some recent construction supplies to Lyndhurst, and generally cleared up living room and master bedroom.
4) Cut out barcode and info from Casablanca box and recycled it
5) Tested new Broan fan. It seems much quieter than master bathroom fan with replaced motor. I will see if motor and fan blades from new fan can fit into the old unit. They are essentially the same model made by same manufacturer, but 30 years apart. This will require some work in July or thereabouts, so in the meantime new fan was put back into box and into Lyndhurst.
6) Set up living room stereo (after construction) by moving right panel and tweeter back into position, and plugging back in electrostatic energizers. For some reason Sonos box in living room has needed rebooting twice.
7) Set up ethernet line from Lab to Kitchen using previous cable with 25 foot extension. Despite being temporary, this cable is now run pretty much like a permanent cable would be until whole house networking is added. It now runs along the baseboards around the hallway corner...which looks much nicer than near the ceiling. The added extension (and new double female adapters) made that possible for the first time.
8) Vacuumed corner of kitchen where new security camera outlet was placed. There was some drywall dust remaining there. Then put stuff back into position, clearing up an incipient mess in kitchen.
9) Attempted to seal gap between patio and house in back, using self-leveling Novalink caulk and foam backing rods I had purchased last year and still hadn't used (and was wondering if the caulk was still good). I used a variety of sizes of backing rods to get the gap fully stuffed first, but apparently did not do well enough toward one side, where the caulk just ran into the ground. That area will need to be re-sealed, possibly with regular caulk, then re-sealed with Novalink again. I already used about 6 large tubes of Novalink, half of my purchase last year. As many as 2 tubes were "wasted" because of the inadequate backing, but possibly having that extra caulk in the ground isn't a bad idea anyway, since there are channels going under the house foundation. It's probably better to have them filled with caulk than airspace that can fill up with water.
10) Measured door jamb widths and did some online research verifying 4 9/16 size.
11) Went to supermarket to get about 1.5 weeks worth of food and stuff.
12) Laundry: NU (new underwear style: boxer shorts and XXL(long) shirts), sheets.
2) Setup Insteon network and got it to control new Patio light and pre-existing X10 Kitchen light. I wrote an earlier post about this, which took about 10 hours of fiddling to get working.
3) Moved some recent construction supplies to Lyndhurst, and generally cleared up living room and master bedroom.
4) Cut out barcode and info from Casablanca box and recycled it
5) Tested new Broan fan. It seems much quieter than master bathroom fan with replaced motor. I will see if motor and fan blades from new fan can fit into the old unit. They are essentially the same model made by same manufacturer, but 30 years apart. This will require some work in July or thereabouts, so in the meantime new fan was put back into box and into Lyndhurst.
6) Set up living room stereo (after construction) by moving right panel and tweeter back into position, and plugging back in electrostatic energizers. For some reason Sonos box in living room has needed rebooting twice.
7) Set up ethernet line from Lab to Kitchen using previous cable with 25 foot extension. Despite being temporary, this cable is now run pretty much like a permanent cable would be until whole house networking is added. It now runs along the baseboards around the hallway corner...which looks much nicer than near the ceiling. The added extension (and new double female adapters) made that possible for the first time.
8) Vacuumed corner of kitchen where new security camera outlet was placed. There was some drywall dust remaining there. Then put stuff back into position, clearing up an incipient mess in kitchen.
9) Attempted to seal gap between patio and house in back, using self-leveling Novalink caulk and foam backing rods I had purchased last year and still hadn't used (and was wondering if the caulk was still good). I used a variety of sizes of backing rods to get the gap fully stuffed first, but apparently did not do well enough toward one side, where the caulk just ran into the ground. That area will need to be re-sealed, possibly with regular caulk, then re-sealed with Novalink again. I already used about 6 large tubes of Novalink, half of my purchase last year. As many as 2 tubes were "wasted" because of the inadequate backing, but possibly having that extra caulk in the ground isn't a bad idea anyway, since there are channels going under the house foundation. It's probably better to have them filled with caulk than airspace that can fill up with water.
10) Measured door jamb widths and did some online research verifying 4 9/16 size.
11) Went to supermarket to get about 1.5 weeks worth of food and stuff.
12) Laundry: NU (new underwear style: boxer shorts and XXL(long) shirts), sheets.
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