It's nice to be one step closer to completing this room!
It's kinda hard to show what it looks like since it's all white, but you can at least see that it looks better than it did with all the drywall and mud!
And by the way, in case you were wondering why Jake did all the painting while I blogged away in the safety of the paint-free zone, it's because (for those of you who didn't yet know) we already have a long-term guest lined up for the "spare" bedroom. He or she will be arriving on or about November 17th, and apparently staying for something like 18 years or more. Thus the rather urgent need to get this room into move-in condition. That, or the kid is going to have to figure out carpentry and other home improvement tasks pretty quickly.
Today we also purchased a few new air valves for our radiators (on the advice of our heating expert). We found the Vent-Rite No. 1 Air Valve at our local Ace Hardware for several dollars cheaper than other places, so that was pretty great. I bought three just to see how the installation would go. It was smooth and easy, so we're going to try to change all of them.
There's the box for the new one, the new valve, and the old valve.
The old ones came out just fine (we worried about breaking them off and creating a serious problem) and we easily screwed in the new ones (adding some teflon tape to seal the threads). This should improve heating efficiency (or so we've been told).
Anyone have any ideas on what to do with the old ones? Any interesting craft projects? (I think they look like little metal Christmas trees).
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