Mr. Bob Vila in Training

Andy isn’t necessarily Mr. Handyman around the house and anyone knows him understands why I say that. He just isn’t handy with tools and fixing things until this weekend he really impressed me with what he can do and it seems as if he impressed himself too. Ever since we moved in we have wanted to replace the door leading from the kitchen to the garage. The previous owners put it in and they just put in a regular door and not a garage door. They also installed it pretty poorly so it was something on our list of things to do, especially once Madison chewed up the trim around the door. Since Madison hasn’t chewed on the trim since we got Izzy we figured it is a good time to replace everything. Andy was definitely ready to tackle this as he was sick of looking at Madison’s damage and the crappy door. I was very unsure about this when I asked Andy if he was going to have Tom come over and help him and he said no. Honestly, that made me a little nervous. Andy bought the door at Home Depot and this weekend we went back to Home Depot to purchase the trim we needed for around the door and the saw we needed to cut the trim properly so it would look nice. No offense to Andy, but I kind of giggled at the saw purchase because I just couldn’t picture him using it. It’s a good purchase because we also want to replace all the base boards in the house and this is going to be a fall project. So, Andy tackled the door replacement on Friday night and most of the day on Saturday. He ripped out the old door and put in the new one. He then filled the gaps with that neat looking foamy stuff that expands. He busted out his brand new toy and he cut the trim to size. I came in from sun bathing by the pool once he was done to check out his work. I was pretty impressed. He did a great job! I know he was impressed with what he did too because he kept asking me if I liked it and if I was proud of him. Now I have all the faith in him to do the trim on the whole house. I will probably help him with that because that is a bigger job and not just a day job. Mr. Bob Vila in training…good job Andy!