http://www.majordanger.net and other such things Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:23:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Finally! It is finished. The house has been painted and it looks great. Despite all the difficulties of the customer service of Alliance Paint, I can honestly say it is terrific work at a reasonable cost. The silver lining to all the runaround of Paige and Chris, the owners of Alliance, ... http://www.majordanger.net/2009/09/the-nightmare-customer-service-paint-job-concludes/ Next week, August 17-22, Rex and I are having our house painted. I am nervous about it, too. Today we pulled weeds from around the house. The man who does the power washing also came by. The porch and deck, which are made of wood, now have most of the ... http://www.majordanger.net/2009/08/things-are-looking-good/ Our house, now a year old to us, (it was built in 1999), has white tiled kitchen counter tops.  Though I wash them everyday, the grout in between had built up some dark stains.  So I decided to bleach them.  Mixing together one quart of hot water (that's four cups ... http://www.majordanger.net/2009/02/my-kitchen-counters/ Today I worked very hard on the garage.  It looks much better.  Swept it, moved boxes, built shelves.  Did a good job.  Now that the car is back in, the black shelf, which is narrower than the white shelf, turned out to cut out the traffic flow from the driver's ... http://www.majordanger.net/2009/01/first-half-of-garage-is-started/