Friday, March 18, 2011

Bargain!!

We spent the morning buying more work.  I got a bathroom fan, whole house fan, and the duct work to go with them.  I also got a new hall light as the one that I had was absolutely disgusting.  Found one on the shelf that was discounted from $29 to $7.50.  Looked good, so I put it in the basket.  At ring up time, I checked to make sure that it rang up at the proper price.  Got a pleasant surprise.  Check the receipt below (you may need to enlarge it):


Just 1 cent!!!!!!!  The cashier even double-checked to make sure the bar codes matched.  They did, he said that's how it was in the program, so he let it go.  We totally should have gone back and gotten the rest on the shelf to resell for a profit.

After lunch, Mom got to work on the hallway.  She sanded down the rough texture before priming it.  Fine dust everywhere:


She did the primed the edges first (slow going with a brush) and that's as far as she got before quitting time tonight.

Dad and I worked on the bathroom fan and the venting for the over-the-range microwave.  He cut the larger hold for the bathroom fan (there was an old crummy one in there before).  I cut the hole in the cabinet for the microwave venting.  Dad cut the hole in the ceiling, down from the attic.  We got most of the venting connected and figured out for it.  We'll finish it tomorrow.  The bathroom fan was installed, but hasn't been wired yet.  Still need to start on the house fan and installing the attic vents to ensure enough exhaust ventilation.

It feels like we didn't accomplish much today, but, like we told Dad, we didn't actually start doing any work until about 2:00.  More fun tomorrow!

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