Garage threshold fix
Mark Bronkalla Our driveway had sunk down in front of the garage doors. In some spots, it was a 2″ rise. This was a trip / fall hazard and did not look…
House Projects
First floor tile project part 3
So we waited a week after grouting for the clean up. In the meantime, the thresholds for the front door and garage door needed to be sanded, stained and varnished.…
First floor tile project part 2
As I mentioned previously, we had gotten notice that the tile was ready earlier than expected. Tile shop also provides the order weight (to 3 decimal places) so we went…
First floor tile project part 1
Background When we built our house 25 years ago we did a lot of the work ourselves. This included all of the hard surface floors – ceramic tile and hardwood,…
New bathroom countertops
The first to go was the powder-room on the first floor. The old countertop came off easily. I had already installed shut-off valves for the faucet and had new a…