A productive weekend

This past weekend was very productive. I had a lot of help from my wife and father in law but a lot of things at the house were done. Since my father in law is pretty handy around the house he's been helping out a lot with the blinds by drilling holes and putting them up for me and my wife. In the mean time, my wife went out and bought all the ceiling fans and the chandelier for the house so I was glad about that.

Today I decided to take a crack at the office ceiling fan and the chandalier. I did the ceiling fan first in the office because it didn't look all that difficult to accomplish and the ceilings downstairs are decidedly lower than the ones upstairs which are about 15 feet high. It took me basically the entire morning just trying to figure out how to wire the fan correctly since I'm not that great with electrical stuff. The fan that my wife bought for the office has a remote so that made things a bit more challenging since the housing for the remote had to be wedged in with all the other electrical stuff near the ceiling. However, I have to say that by around 1pm I was successful and the ceiling fan is working quite well :)

The chandalier was a bit different because I had no idea how to get this one assembled. I managed to get it out of the box and I also attached most of the non breakable parts to it and even managed to string all the wiring to the ceiling but there was at least 10 feet of wire and that just wouldn't do when all I really needed was a foot and a half. My father in law helped me a lot with this one since he has all the good tools and the know how on how to put it up. I ended up just helping him while he rewired everything and screwed it into the ceiling. I was able to at least shorten the chain that leads down from the ceiling to the chandalier but I also broke one of the test light bulbs I was using so that was a drag since I had to go to home depot to replace it. But by the time I got back it was all assembled and ready to go. The light is way brighter than the little light the builder originally put in.

Now all thats left is 3 more fans and some more blinds and some of the bigger stuff will be complete! Man, can't wait! It's late as hell and I have work nice and early tomorrow morning, if I have the time maybe I'll make another post tomorrow or something.