2014
- Over-buy at your home improvement store. You will be more frustrated driving back and forth than having to go there once in when you are done to return everything.
- Check the tile pieces that you buy before you install them. Otherwise, you will end up installing one that wasn't the same color (Yes this happened to me see below).
- Buy the right trowel for the size of tile you are using and then make sure you don't use too much mortar. Especially, be careful on the small tiles as I spent a lot of time in the back end trying to scrape it out of the joints so my grout would fill it later.
- You will run into more problems than you anticipated and are going to start replacing a lot more things (e.g., Pipes, Sub-floor, Walls).
- Did I mention that you should overbuy things at your Home Improvement Store
- Realize that as you are going to get sidetracked by your significant other to complete "Fluff" projects some of which are unrelated to the task at hand.
“Not sure why, but that door doesn’t open” - Brecken
Maternity photo shoot today
Walker and Fulkerson kids having fun at the beach today
Rainbow view after we waited out the rain golfing
Checking out his locker and getting excited for his first day of school #MeetTheTeacher
I had some help trimming bushes this afternoon
Little Man is getting ready for school by looking over his supplies and sharpening his pencils today
Another awesome desert by my wife @aprilgottwalker. I am not sure I can keep eating things like this, good thing school starts soon.
Little Girl had a very busy weekend and actually fell asleep during books tonight
The Little Walker’s had a great time playing at the @TheBigWiff today.
Little Walkers out in the field at the Big Wiff today.
Little Girl having fun today
Walk around the lake this morning with Little Girl
Remodeling project
Looking back I realized that in the last post I talked about how I was looking for new books to read and I was actually really excited about reading books instead of just listening to book tapes. In fact, I received a copy of “Sleep your way to the Top” by Jane Miller from FGPress not long after publishing that post (perfect timing right). Also, I had some other plans of spending time on some projects that were still very rough ideas in my mind.
No sooner did all of that happen than I found myself trying to figure out why there was water dripping in our basement from the ceiling. What caused the leak you asked.. Well of course a leaky toilet seal. So I did what every do-it-yourself handyman would do.... I decided to redo the entire bathroom instead of just fixing the leaky Toilet ring. If you are going to do something do it right from the beginning.
Upstairs Bathroom - Finished Product
Before and After
Always great to find what the previous owner did. Really shims!
Demolition almost complete
Replacing the floor
Starting to go back together
This bathroom remodeling project only too me 2 weeks until it was usable where as the first one I did took me just about 3 years (Read more here). Here are my words of advice from my first two bathroom remodels.
At the top of the Ferris Wheel with Mr. B
Little Girl and I riding Swiper’s Sweeper
The Little Walker’s are ready to take the field next Saturday at the Big Wiff
The Summer of Cupcakes continues
Getting read to watch the free family movie today
