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Jim worked on plumbing again this morning - figuring out how he wanted to attach the cold water lines to the manifold.  I think it looks great!  (But stay tuned - it didn't stay like this!)

While Jim was working, I ran to Lowe's to pick up paint for our man doors.  They came primed but they definitely need painted to keep them protected.  We had already picked a color (high-speed steel - how perfect is that?).  There was a rebate through today so I wanted to make sure we took advantage of that since paint is so pricey. 

In the afternoon, Jim got things ready to work on the trim for the stairwell area we're siding.  He already had pieces made but he needed to cut them to size and do the painting underneath.

Before he headed back up on the scaffolding, Jim took apart our old ramp.  We used this for a very long time so it's nice to see that it's no longer needed.  Jim used one of the planks for an extra work area up on the scaffolding.

First job is to put up the soffit.

Jim had to make another little piece of flashing to take it all the way up to the top.

After the soffit, time for the trim board.

Fastening it in place.

Putting up the last bit of soffit.

Late in the afternoon, a thunderstorm blew in.  We gathered all the tools and headed inside.  We don't get too many thunderstorms and this one dropped a lot of rain and hail in a short period of time.  But before long, it was gone and the bright blue skies were back!

Since he couldn't do anymore outside work, Jim headed back down to the utility room.  He wasn't real happy with his first configuration of the cold water lines so he redid them.  He will have to put the fasteners to hold things in place, but he's happier now.  You can also see that he added more of the cold lines to the manifold.

On my errands yesterday, I picked up trim rings for our recessed lights that we ordered online.  We were a little concerned about these.  We bought 4 lights and 2 of them had a different socket configuration inside.  Add to that issue that apparently the 5" lights that we liked the best must be being discontinued.  Jim ordered them from one Lowe's and they called and said they had to cancel the order because they no longer had them.  Thankfully, another Lowe's did.  Once Jim had the trim rings, he was able to see that he could make both of the different light configurations work so that problem is solved. 

 

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