Category: renovations
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2025 handywork
Big Items: January 2025 — Jay Watson’s crew, Greg & Larry — mostly back bathroom work: 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…
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kitchen lighting
Some years ago the two 8-foot fluorescent tubes kitchen overhead lights started overheating, and had to be taken out. We dithered for a long time over what kinds of lights to replace, then finally elected to do track lighting. There is a decorative wood board that the LED tracks mount on, and that also conceals…
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Rittenhouse 366 doorbell
The original doorbell, a Rittenhouse model 366, has been humming and vibrating, perpetually — and getting hot. It does ring, but the “getting hot” seems dangerous, so we’re taking out the old doorbell. The entire cover was deep brown until I washed it, revealing a cream color!
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2024 renovations & handywork
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Ecobee thermostat
Our Nest thermostat, about 8 years old, stopped working on its heat pump wire about a month ago. We did not know what was happening; why was the house cold? (Because the oil burner wouldn’t go on unless the temperature was below freezing, and it mostly wasn’t, but it was still cold because the heat…
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backdoor keypad
Installed a keypad & new knob on the back door; the old knob, about 11 years old, was getting stuck, and we wanted a keypad anyway. Schlage! Amherst Lockworks.
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2023 renovations & upkeep
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sunroom windows replaced
2015 june
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Keypad locks
Mudroom / carport door – Basement door – 2021 – Back hallway back door – 2023
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hallway lighting
Added track lighting to back hallway — after large 8 foot fluorescent tubes were removed as a fire hazard
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Back bathroom
At long last, we are putting in cabinets (instead of free-standing open shelving) and a sink vanity (instead of a plain sink). Jay Watson’s crew are doing the work — I met w/ Jay Tuesday Sept. 19 to figure it out. Timing will depend on weather, as they are also trying to get some of…
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Fun new mcm style light switch plates
We brought in two fun new midcentury modern-style cat-themed light switch plates for the pink bathroom. These replaced the previous light plates — silvery metal, an attempt to capture something of the chrome style of the rusting plates that were here when we moved in 2012 — but the metal wasn’t holding up well, either,…