Over this summer, my significant other and I have been doing a lot with our home because we’ve been spending a lot more time here. That’s what a pandemic that closes most everything down will do to you.
As a result, we’ve been doing a lot at the house. And we’ve made a lot of trips and spent a lot of money at the Home Depot doing new work & fixing up other things such as my significant other putting another coat of stain on the basement floor to get the color back.
Another major thing was the grout replacement I did since the job the team at Metropolitan Home Remodeling didn’t hold up very well. That was hell on Earth since it took 4 hours to lay down the grout and almost all day to clean up the haze off of the kitchen floor.
But it was done at the end of the day. I then sealed the grout and cleaned up the excess haze off of our hardwood floor in the living room. I felt quite accomplished by this and the work we did in the yard.
Some of the work we did in the yard that caused lots of Home Depot trips included:
- Trimming excess bushes and tree branches
- Putting down a nice wooden border in front of the house
- Spray painting certain yard decorations
- Putting down new mulch & netting in our garden areas
- Buying a new 100-foot hose & hooking it up to a self-reeling storage box
But there’s a bigger challenge I went through than any other in that yard.
Putting Up Our New Pool
That’s right, we were able to purchase an inflatable 15-foot round Intex pool just in time for my son’s birthday party. We initially went to Woodbridge Pools to consider a more permanent solution, but the pandemic caused the pool supplies to be on back order until the end of the summer.
They’re also a lot more expensive, 10 times the price in fact, than the Intex pool and I wouldn’t need a permit for it. But putting up the pool was quite the task with the following steps:
- Mowing the lawn underneath it to the lowest setting
- Putting down some foamed paver tiles for a flat surface
- Laying out the tarp underneath to absorb water
- Laying out the pool & inflating the top
- Filling the water up an inch or 2 & taking the wrinkles out of the bottom
- Filling up the water overnight & monitoring it
I also hooked up the filter, assembled the ladder and put in the proper chemicals (which I bought at Woodbridge Pools) until the pH level was just right. It was an arduous process and I even called in sick the next day, but it was worth it.
This summer won’t be our last spending spree at Home Depot, not by a long shot.
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