House Projects

[rose0529]

Decided to resurect the built in grill that our house came with this week. I had Centerpoint come out and make sure everything was in good shape and replace the bad parts. They fired it up and it works like a champ!

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I then scuffed all the paint and scrapped the inside with a wire brush. I gave it one coat of paint last night (thats all homedepot had last night in the sheen I wanted). It will need a couple more coats, but should look almost new when I'm done! It will be nice to not worry about running out of propane. I also discovered it has a ceramic coated grill grate!

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[A//// Guy]

Nice! Built in grills ftw!

[turbotalon1g]

That's pretty sweet.

[Halon]

That's pretty cool.

[Kevin 1G Drummer]

Not really a project for me, but last weekend I moved to a townhome in Eagan with my gf. It's nice to not live way out in the sticks anymore!

[Halon]

Well went off and got married this weekend. Came home today to see the progress.

- Final grade with black dirt complete
- Landscaping has begun.
-River rock and edging installed.
- Boulder retaining wall installed.
- Start sod install tomorrow so had to go buy a bunch of water hose and
sprinklers as it will require a lot of watering.
- Rock installed on front of garage.
- Began painting front of house
- Interior all cleaned up ready for closing.
- They are still doing misc patch up work on the inside, we noted a lot of little things on our walkthrough last Wednesday so they are patching that all up.

Here's some pics!

[Halon]

And a few more pics.

[goodhart]

No irrigation system? Also, who did the landscaping do you know?

[Halon]

We are roughed in for a future irrigation system, meaning they ran a larger water feed to the house, and the pipe is on the outside of the house if we ever get one. You can see it in some of the older pics, big brass piped behind the garage running down the side of the house exterior.

We really watched our budget and that didn't make it into the budget. So manual lawn watering for now, hopefully some day in the future we will be able to get a sprinkler system.

http://www.bd-bobcatandlandscaping.com/
That's who did our landscaping. 3 different companies contacted us. We met with this guy first and never even talked to the others. He made us feel like we were in good hands, so decided to just stick with them. So far no complaints.

[goodhart]

That's cool you are hooked up for irrigation for future.

I was wondering who the landscaper was because the guy I worked for last summer did high end stuff like you would see in your neighborhood

http://spearslandscape.com/