Havasu, that looks great! I was just telling my friend who works at O'Reilly's about what you used and how awesome it turned out.
Gary, that looks absolutely amazing!
I went in to town to pick up my mother's driver's license from the bank. They made a copy of it and forgot to give it back on Friday. She called them this morning and asked if I could pick it up for her. Got mail and took some friends to Walmart. My friend's kitchen is coming along. Some of the old cabinets are still in halfway decent shape-- just might need some sanding and clearly need painting. I told him I would paint them for him. Forgot to pick them up before he went to work though. But, I'll have to get him to put them in my truck so I can take them to the workshop and see how the painting goes so they don't just get thrown in the garbage. I was thinking I could paint them white, but then I realized it might not go with the kitchen, so I can see if I can find some other paint colors. Painting can be fun. He was going to get a really cheap microwave to give to his ex so he could get his microwave back from her (now that he actually has a kitchen) but she doesn't clean and the place is so infested with roaches that there were roaches coming out from the buttons on the microwave and he doesn't want to bring it over to his place. He apparently had to hose the refrigerator out and spray the outside with roach spray because it was covered-- but he wasn't going to let her keep that fridge. Trying to find him a decent replacement microwave that he can afford now.
Kitchen before:
After:
I need to get a better updated after pic.
Meanwhile, I got some early birthday presents: replacement jigsaw attachment, a reciprocating saw attachment, and a 15pc tungsten carbide router bits set in their own wooden box. Box is raw wood so I'm going to sand it and either stain it and coat it with poly or paint it. I might replace the hardware for the latch since the latch kind of sucks. I'm thinking of using some of the foam/padding stuff that came with some of my mother's junk jewelry she orders from wish as some padding inside the box. If I paint it, I'm trying to decide what color to use. The bits are blue, but I want the box to be easy to find-- so either red or orange. Possibly blue. I might do a test area and see how it would look stained on the bottom and if I don't like it, I can paint over it. But it definitely needs to be sanded.
On a side note, does anyone here know much about rental laws? The situation is: My friend let his bint ex-girlfriend move in to his trailer under the impression that she was buying it from him. Her tax returns were supposed to go to him as soon as she got them, but she never received them because she's an idiot and messed up on the filing-- and because the money was going to go to him, she doesn't care and won't do anything about it. She was extremely rude about the way she moved in-- insisting he get all of his stuff out as soon as he agreed to sell it to her (even though she hadn't paid a cent to him-- and still has not paid him anything).
I mentioned awhile ago that she screwed him over on his utility deposit which delayed him being able to start fixing up his grandmother's house. She had the utilities for his trailer put in her name without his authorization and her boyfriend is currently paying the rent for the lot (but neither of them are paying for the trailer itself). Yesterday, the twunt just announced to my friend that it doesn't matter that she didn't pay him for the trailer (and has no intention of paying him) because she is paying rent for the lot and therefor, he can't evict her. She also told him that because he can't do anything about it, if he doesn't get all of his stuff out of the trailer, she is going to sell it. He warned her that she's not allowed to do that because he owns it-- so she said she would sell his current girlfriend's stuff that got left in the closet because they didn't have any place to move the stuff to.
What are the rules on this? I know she's paying for the lot and she's been staying in the trailer for several months-- although it was under the pretense that she was going to buy it. I'm fairly certain she has no right to throw any of his stuff out and absolutely is not allowed to sell it, but would he have to take her to court to get her evicted? If he does have to do that, can he sue her for his court fees (not that she'd pay-- she hasn't had a job in over a year and has no intention of ever getting a job again). Any ideas?
Right now, he said he's thinking of dumping her stuff out of his trailer and having it hauled to his yard and telling her she can live in a tent (although he'd probably never follow through on that threat).
