January home improvement projects-done

Every year, I like to make a "to-do" list for the house. Sometimes, we get to the projects, sometimes we don't. For January this year, I wanted Andy to insulate the garage door. This is something that we have talked about doing for 3 winters, now. Liam's room is above the garage, and we really felt that his room would be warmer if we did this project. Last spring, Andy put up insulation in the garage on the exterior walls, and we felt like that helped, too. The project took Andy hardly any time at all.  Now, our garage door looks a little bit like a quilt.  And, the garage is significantly warmer (good for the dog) and Liam's room is warmer, too (good for Liam).

Then, last week, Menards had an ad featuring a thermostat with a remote sensor.  So, you could control the temperature of a certain room of the house is you wanted too.  We thought this would be a great thing for us, because then we could more closely manage the temperature of the 2nd floor.  Purchase made, and Andy installed that last night.  We had some minor technical difficulties that resulted in it having to be taken off and reinstalled.  And, then a furnace issue which, luckily, turned out to be a blown fuse on the furnace (a late night trip to Meijer fixed that).  Everything is working, now, and we can say that we are done with projects for January.  Time to rest up for next month.