In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Friday, September 11, 2026 15:29
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I'm trying to decide what to do next. Most immediately I have to refill family meds and pick some up for hubby, and next three weeks are gonna be lots of doctor appointments that just happenedto pile up in the same month. But weather continues reasonable so I guess I should be working outdoors as time permits. What I SHOULD do is prepare the yard for professional tree trimmers bc there are a lot of trip hazards where they might be working.
But I think I'm gonna focus on the front yard instead and do some more grading and trimming.
Yep! That feels right! That's what I'm gonna do!
First things after meds tomorrow is get myself a pole pruner.
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Out soon and I have to check the weather. Missed it last night so have to see what it is suppose to do.
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Draggin' ass today lol...
Fiddled around a bit with the computer project that I did not complete last night before I went to sleep, and not really much else so far.
I'd like to at least get one coat of paint on that shelf and the medicine cabinet if nothing else. If I start painting and I really get into it, I could probably paint a 2nd coat on things shortly after the first coat is finished just because of the intricacy of everything. It's nice and cool in the basement so it's easy to cover the paint stuff to keep it from drying on me in between.
I'm confident that everything will need 3 coats. The cabinet might not really, but the extra protection from humidity is always welcome. But after needing 3 coats for that toilet paper holder simply because of the weird brush angles inside of the box, there's zero chance I'll cover everything on that shelf with only 2 coats. And really, I can't even make that a goal of mine because I need to be using that paint very sparingly or it will make drip marks everywhere.
I think I found the boxes that I need to use for the electric. I figured they'd be about $5 each and I wasn't wrong. What a ripoff for those old construction boxes, but it is what it is.
Once I buy those, my rebates will be exhausted and I will have spent $4 so far on this remodel.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Draggin' ass today lol...
Jeez! Well, of course!
You've been blazing away for how long, now?
Quote:. Well, that's what I call cost- effective!
Fiddled around a bit with the computer project that I did not complete last night before I went to sleep, and not really much else so far.
I'd like to at least get one coat of paint on that shelf and the medicine cabinet if nothing else. If I start painting and I really get into it, I could probably paint a 2nd coat on things shortly after the first coat is finished just because of the intricacy of everything. It's nice and cool in the basement so it's easy to cover the paint stuff to keep it from drying on me in between.
I'm confident that everything will need 3 coats. The cabinet might not really, but the extra protection from humidity is always welcome. But after needing 3 coats for that toilet paper holder simply because of the weird brush angles inside of the box, there's zero chance I'll cover everything on that shelf with only 2 coats. And really, I can't even make that a goal of mine because I need to be using that paint very sparingly or it will make drip marks everywhere.
I think I found the boxes that I need to use for the electric. I figured they'd be about $5 each and I wasn't wrong. What a ripoff for those old construction boxes, but it is what it is.
Once I buy those, my rebates will be exhausted and I will have spent $4 so far on this remodel.
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All done for today.
And after looking at something it looks like my RL paperwork problem is solved. Thank goodness.
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Heh... yup.
If you want to be realistic about it and not count the rebates as freebies, I'll still be around $40. No... That's not even true. I spent $37 in rebates last week, but two of the things I bought was another bucket of primer and a tube of painter's caulk since I didn't realize I already had an old tube and I was getting to the end of my only bucket of primer left.
And now the bathroom is essentially "done" as far as all that goes, and I haven't even opened either of them. (They will get used, just not necessary for the bathroom).
So really... The only things that I've bought for this remodel so far that I didn't already have on hand were the two $5 8ft pieces of quarter round, and the two $5 junction boxes I'll be buying this week.
Okay... So I'm $20 into the bathroom remodel so far.
It really will be the toilet that determines what this job costs.
I've got 6 or 7 porcelain tile choices out in the garage, and if one of the two buckets of adhesive my friend gave me is still good, that's more free material.
I haven't decided if I want to make a tile baseboard or just put trim up yet. It can look really great with the tiles if done right, but I've never actually done it before and that would add a lot of unnecessary time to the project with my perfectionism for sure. I'll probably just go with trim. I really do not like working with porcelain tiles or doing flooring of any kind, actually, so I'll probably be very sick of tile by the time the floor is in and I'll be reaching for trim instead.
That being said, when I was out looking for the toilet paper holder in the garage, I found an 8ft length of PVC baseboard I forgot I'd bought many years ago to cap off the two pillars on the front porch. But I've never gotten around to doing any of the work I need to out there, so I might just take that and repurpose it for this job. Probably not a bad idea to put PVC baseboard back in anyhow, and it's really nice and thick baseboard like I have all around the rest of the house.
I'm just hoping that PVC is easy to work with because I'm going to have to do some coping on the ends to get it to fit around the quarter round. The minuscule piece that I'll be putting in between the door frame and the quarter round on the other side is going to be stupid hard to make I think. I may just use one of my leftover scrap pieces of the old wood baseboard to make that piece if the PVC is stupid hard to work with. They might not be exactly the same size or height even, but it's all on its own on the other side of the bathroom without anything to compare it to other than the 3" or so where I'll have base on the other side of the door frame up to the vanity. I may just make both of those small pieces out of wood if I have to.
It is looking possible like after the $20 I've spent when I get these boxes, the only things I'll actually be paying for on this entire job is the tile grout and the toilet.
I don't even really know what toilets cost yet, but my old man seems to think that I'm highballing the price I'm going to pay for one. I thought like $400 for a good one for sure, but he seems to think I'm not going to spend more than about $250.
$325 or less for a half-bathroom remodel in 2026 that's going to add a whole lot of functionality on top of looking great?
Not too shabby. 
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I'm trying to figure out my vanity light fixture without any instructions.
It's weird. There's nothing inside of it that is designed to screw into a junction box at all. There are just two holes on the face, and I didn't get my tape out yet but the holes line up with the corners of a 4" electrical box, so they're more than 4" apart.
I dunno, but I think I'm going to have to put drywall anchors back there like they had and screw this into the wall after I've screwed the ground cable into the box I'll be putting up behind it.
I'm glad these walls are built like freakin' tanks, because when the 3 glass shades are added to it, I'll bet that fixture is pretty heavy. We're not talking thin, cheapo glass here.
I think I'm probably missing some sort of universal kit that came with it when it was new. I'll have to put some thought into how I want to do that and ensure it's not going to fall down and bring part of the wall down with it one day years down the road. Even if I was attaching it directly to an "old construction" box that's attached to nothing but the drywall this could still be a problem, but it looks as though I have no way to do that anyhow.
At least there's no pull-chain on it.
Hmmmmm.....
I might have to add another $10 or so to the price for two screws. I know I have plenty of drywall anchors, but I might not have drywall screws that are long enough for the job. I'm going to have to go out in my garage again and see if there are any stray screws or anything at all up on the shelf where I had a bunch of this stuff sitting for years. Unless there were some designer screws or screws with caps intended to be put on top to hide the fact there are screws there, I'm thinking I have to use drywall screws because the black should blend in better with the oil rubbed bronze than any screws you'd typically use to put a fixture into the wall. I'd really love to add some washers to that if that's what I'm going to do, but even if I spray paint them oil-rubbed bronze, I think that would be a lot more visible to the casual eye than I'd like it to be.
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I like the idea of PVC baseboard. One of the problems with wood baseboard in a bathroom, especially around the toilet, is if you get a leak the wood gets ruined. OTOH near the door, a wood piece should be safe.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I like the idea of PVC baseboard. One of the problems with wood baseboard in a bathroom, especially around the toilet, is if you get a leak the wood gets ruined. OTOH near the door, a wood piece should be safe.
Yeah. You didn't miss out by not seeing the grossness that was under that tiny piece I removed over there. If I can get PVC in there and seal everything off real good, I'll feel better about it than if I've got wood over there. It's far away from the toilet, but it's still right next to the tub. I don't think I was the messy guy that put that mold there, and it was just hiding under that tiny baseboard for the last 14 years at least.
If I go with wood for that tiny piece I'll make sure a ton of paint goes on it all around.
As far as around the toilet? All the subfloor around it is rotting and is going to need to be replaced. I forgot about that when talking about costs. I do have quite a bit of proper wood for the job out in the garage, but it depends on if I have the right thickness. It's such a small bathroom I think I can get away with buying one of their steeply discounted "scrap" pieces, but the most I should have to buy is a half-sheet of plywood if I don't have what I need.
I haven't researched what I should do before I put the tile down either. Other than cutting tiles I never really did much or wasn't even around on days where tiles were being installed. I think I might have to see if my friend has one of those staplers and I might have to buy a thin sheet of wood to put over the old stuff and staple it down first. I know I've pulled plenty of those off of floors after removing tiles before.
I'm going to have some pictures tonight. I sanded down all the wood filler and just got my first coat of paint on the shelf and medicine cabinet. I believe that took me about 90 minutes, but I didn't time it.
WORTH IT.
Boy... Everything... but that shelf especially, is going to look awesome.
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So.... About 45-50 minutes just to put a coat of paint on the shelf. That sounds about right.
Two coats on it now and it's covering a LOT better than I thought it would after I objectively needed a 3rd coat on that toilet paper holder last night. I think I could probably get away with just the two, actually, but I'm going to do 3.
I would have done the medicine cabinet a 2nd time before I took a break, but it's still a little more wet inside the box than I'd like. I don't want to put fans on down there becuase I don't feel like doing all the dust cleanup around horses and crap that I'd need to do before I added wind to the equation.
First coat dried awesome on the cab though. You can't even see the damage on the top or the holes for the screws with just one coat.
And the wood grain....
Boy... I thought that looked nice peeking out through all of my white trim and cabinets. It looks awesome with that dark gray. I'll have to get a better camera situation so I can show you the wood grain on all of this.
This is cool. At most, I have one more day of painting these things if I don't stay up late and do all 3 coats tonight. Plenty of paint to do the job, although I don't think I would have had enough to paint the window wall darker with this stuff, so I'm glad I decided not to do that. If I used my lamb's wool roller for this job, I think the roller itself would have sucked up what will be left when I'm done painting these last 3 things.
Once that painting is done, it's going to force me up off my ass and out of the house to buy that electric. Up until right now there were so many things to do that it was always on the backburner. I'm probably going to take an entire day just measuring things 10 times and planning out exactly where everything needs to be hung.
I hate hanging picture frames. I don't think I'm going to enjoy hanging cabinets.
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