{"id":27,"date":"2017-08-30T22:53:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T22:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5265.temp.domains\/~brucewi2\/photos\/2017\/08\/30\/wall-down\/"},"modified":"2019-09-03T01:12:04","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T01:12:04","slug":"wall-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wall-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Wall Down"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Houston, The Baby as landed! Clark Kaiming Winter arrived on 7\/29 weighing in at 8lb 10oz. Max is taking good care of him:<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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We are over the moon.<\/div>\n
Back on Earth, Helen had a nice trip LA to visit Aya & Eric:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I\u2019m enjoying retirement with various activities. I started with Irina\u2019s house, finished cleaning it out, did an estate sale, and FSBOed it onto the market:<\/div>\n
3041 Whispering Pines Circle<\/span>
170,000 with Rooms: 10, 3 Bedrooms, 3 Bathrooms (Full), Condition: Well maintained, 1960 sq. ft., Lot size 0.53 acres\u2026<\/span>3041whisperingpines.com<\/a><\/a><\/div>\n
Now I\u2019m into renovations on our house. I started with replacing a \u201970s style sink faucet with something from the future:<\/div>\n
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It lights up blue\/green\/red, depending on water temperature:<\/div>\n
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The next project was\/is a bit more challenging. I had a dream in which a Regan like voice said \u2018Mr Gorba-Winter, tear down this wall!\u201d. He was speaking of this wall between our bedroom and fireplace room:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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So we did, and now we have a room fit for a King and Queen and his King sized bed (why is it that the Queen\u2019s bed is smaller?):<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The next challenge was the floor. The solid oak wood floor was in good shape, but the carpet had to go. So I you-tubed up how-to-tile videos and gave it a go. First had to take out the old carpet and particle board:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Then replace sections of weak sub-floor and installed new plywood with legions of screws:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Then comes the Ditra membrane, a bit thinner then conventional tile backer-board, for a better height match with the wood:<\/div>\n
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We went for these new bleached wood plank styled tiles:<\/div>\n
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I used a yellow wedge leveling system. A bunch more work, but helps keep the tiles level with each other:<\/div>\n
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This video condenses the 1 week project down to 3 minutes:<\/div>\n
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