Tag: home improvement

Not Quite Done but SO CLOSE

The last patch of floor is finished!

The baseboard is finished!

The thresholds are finished!

He still needs to replace the outlet and light switch covers and touch up a few little paint issues, but that’s it. We are SO CLOSE!!

We Are SO Close

The contractor got here around 5:00pm. That’s 3-4 hours later than he usually gets here. I don’t know how long he’s staying.

We are so close to being done. The guy has been a freaking rock star. Can he finish tonight? Jen and I are listening to the sounds coming from down there trying to guess what’s still left to do.

We just heard what sounds like a nail gun. Does that mean he’s finishing up the baseboards?

Splash

Remember all of that washing machine talk yesterday? I mentioned there are actually two washing machines. The big guy is the main one, but there is also another one in the pedestal that the big sucker stands on. When we bought the set we thought that was a good idea. In actual fact though, I think I used the pedestal washing machine once over the last two plus years and that was just to make sure it worked.

Last night after Jen fell asleep I went down stairs and washed a pair of jeans and a t-shirt in the pedestal. Again, just to make sure it worked. It did. The water lines into it worked and the outflow hose worked too.

Or so I thought.

When I was hooking everything up yesterday morning there was a little bit of water that spilled out of one of the hoses onto the floor. I kept forgetting to clean it up. This morning I took a little towel down cellar and took care of it. I figured I’d just throw the towel into the big machine and the next time I needed to wash clothes I’d was the towel with the rest of it.

I opened the side loading washing machine door and about a gallon of water sloshed out.

WhatWhatWhat?

The drum was full of water. How? It was empty when I took the last load of laundry out yesterday. Why was it full now?

Apparently the pedestal washer’s outflow somehow either drained into the big machine, or it drained out, went past the splitter on the out flow hose, and then backwashed into the big machine. Is that even possible? It must be.

I mopped up the new spill with a couple more towels and ran the unit in 15 minute quick wash mode. Everything drained appropriately.

The moral of the story is: Buying the pedestal thing was clearly a mistake and it will never be used again.

Wiped Out

We did so much stuff around the house this weekend. I need a weekend to recover from the weekend.

We’re pretty optimistic that the contractor will be done in the cellar today or tomorrow. After that we need to put all the furniture back where it belongs. I had to move everything away from the walls last night so that he can finish the baseboards. Once everything’s back where it’s going we’ll mount the new television on the wall and then… maybe watch a movie or something?

Then I need to move my office space downstairs too. There’s an exercise bike that needs to move too. Oh yeah, I forgot that we got a nice sound system for the new TV. That needs to go in before our first movie date.

Then what? We got a couple of foldable room divider things. One will go between the living room and the work space and the other will wall off the laundry room. The last thing, I think, is to figure out where the new music nook will go. It has to be close enough to the office so that I can use my computer for more wonderful home recording demo amazingness. I haven’t recorded a song in two months. That needs to change.

After all of that?

Oh, just surgery.

I Think I’m Done

1-800-JUNK is coming tomorrow. There’s a Mount Everest sized pile of shit on our front lawn that they will haul away. It’s all boxes from things we put into the cellar and stuff that was in the cellar but is no longer needed, or stuff that was in the kitchen or the dining room or the living room that is no longer needed.

So. Much. Stuff.

I’ve spent nearly the entire day taking crap outside. Between that, putting the laundry room together, and yesterday’s putting the downstairs living space together……..

I’m done. Finished. My back is killing me and my legs are killing me and I’m done. Kill the lights, strike the stage, I’m done.

Washer

Best Buy installed our washer/dryer in 2020. They came back yesterday to fix the dryer I broke. They wouldn’t hook up the washer though. They complained about the pipes.

So job today was reconnecting everything. There are actually two washers. The main one and the little tiny quickly one it sits on. When I unhooked it I undid two outflow pipes and two inflow lines. The inflow lines each go through a splitter to the two machines but I left those in place.

When I started it today there were two splitters on the hot water line.

What?

Where the hell did that come from. I swear it wasn’t there when I took this apart. Did Beat Buy put it there yesterday for some unfathomable reason? They must have.

I took it off, put everything back where it needed to be, and ran a quick test load on the main machine.

It worked. Also, more importantly, nothing leaked.

Bucket… just in case.
I have no clue.