2025 handywork

2025 handywork

Big Items:

  • January 2025 – back bathroom vanity, regrouting shower pan
  • May 2025 – kitchen lighting &

January 2025 — Jay Watson’s crew, Greg & Larry — mostly back bathroom work:

  • back bathroom sink vanity installed (meant expanding the bump-out wall)
  • trim consistent with the original part of the house added to replace the temporary crappy trim that was added in 2012
  • bathroom repainted
  • back shower grouting & re-caulking to fix leaking into basement crawl space
  • plaster repaired around chimney in living room & in top of coat & bathroom closet (damage from chimney spalling some years back; the chimney was fixed but the cosmetic plaster work was delayed until we did the plaster work in the bathroom)
  • installed & stained boards for kitchen lighting

March 2025 — Bosch heat pump repaired by installer, Surner, March 12. (Warranty repair)

April 2025 – Town of Amherst installed a new water meter, April 2. (Basement media room access panel.)

May 2025 — Jay Watson’s crew did this work, mostly Greg, some Larry.

  • Back bathroom — Toto bidet toilet seat finished setting up; cabinet door openings switched
  • Living room — Lowered paintings, hung ketuba on fireplace
  • Back bedroom — access port to bathtub controls; hung curtain rod on double north windows
  • Kitchen — fixed cabinet door by fridge (replaced hinges); added under-counter lights & light shade; added overhead lights; added shelves to open cabinets
  • Basement — closed up gaps to media room ceiling
  • Office & Laundry hallway doors — added cat door cut-outs
  • Back door hose outlet — fixed broken attachment
  • Ash’s bedroom — hung curtain rod on double north windows (picture above)
  • Sunroom — screen doors screening replaced w/ more durable aluminum screening
  • Investigating the doorbell — needs an electrician


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