Hanging doors and baseboards

I woke a little before 5 am and went downstairs to heat water for tea. We watched local Lexington news through Zeam on the Roku television in our room.

After a breakfast of cold cereal, Mark and I went out to get materials and supplies for the repair jobs at the house this week. Mary and Cindy went to a reformed Presbyterian Church a short distance away.

Mark and I went to Home Depot and bought 64 feet of baseboard which we thought would be about half of what expected to need replacing the baseboard on the first floor.

Mark and Cindy had picked out some simulated batten board paneling in sheets that are 48 inches wide and 32 inches tall. We bought 17 panels of the product. We bought 64 lineal feet of chair rail and 12 feet of corner moulding. All the material we bought except the chair was pre-primed. We bought paintbrushes, rollers and pans for painting. We bought several tubes of construction adhesive and other small items we thought we might need.

At Harbor Freight we bought a 10 inch miter saw by Chicago Electric which was the lowest priced miter saw offered at Harbor Freight in this size. We also got some low priced sawhorses for painting the interior doors as well as the mouldings.

We called Cindy and asked that she and Mary stop at Home Depot to pick out the shade of white satin paint they wanted to paint the woodwork. They also got some paint containers to help them with painting the doors and trim.

Mark and I primed the chair rail with Kilz 2 primer before Mary and Cindy returned from church. After they got in, we had a lunch of the leftover meatloaf and potatoes. The ladies changed clothes, and we helped them move items to be painted as we did repairs around the house. As baseboards dried, we cut them to fit around the dining room, living room, hall and closets. We used one of the nail guns that I brought from home to fasten the baseboards after we cut them with the new miter saw. We got a few sections of baseboard down in the dining room and living room before dinner.  Since the wainscoting panels weren't dry yet, we put the baseboard in the areas where the tongue and groove planks were on the walls.

Dinner was provided by one of the neighbors, a man from Minnesota who winters here in Homosassa. He caught more redfish that he could use so he shared some with us. We had fish tacos from the poached fish along with chips and salsa. Mark’s boat was in the shop to be coated with an anti-fouling paint. We were hopeful that the boat would be finished and the weather would hold while we were here.

After dinner we watched some television and relaxed before turning in a little before 10 pm.