Tag: home improvement

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 #1 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.

Delivery Window

We have a furniture delivery scheduled for tomorrow. They are bringing us a couch and a chair for the cellar.

The gave us a window of time when we can expect the delivery. Guess what time the window opens.

Go on, guess.

How’s 6:30 am sound?

I think I need to go to sleep now. The alarm clock will go off in six hours and six minutes.

Yikes.

Construction Snag

Our schedules are a little wonky at the moment. We were hoping the contractor would be done with the cellar by today, but he’s had a couple of things come up and he might not be done. We have a little bit of furniture delivery coming over the weekend, along with someone to fix the dryer that I so idiotically broke. That part of the cellar is done, so we just have to clear a path through the storage area. The area we want to put the furniture is not done, so we might have to shuffle things around. Worst case scenario has the laundry room area done this weekend and the living room/office space done sometime next week.

I’m trying not to be disappointed. I mean it’s just a mild scheduling snag. We’re just so close to being finished that a delay at this point is tough to take. Not really tough to take, but a little bit tough to take. You know what I mean, right? It’s going to be so cool when it’s done though. I just have to focus on the good and not worry about the not-very-bad.

We’re not sure if the contractor will make it over tonight. If he does get here he’ll likely finish the floor. If he doesn’t then he’ll just have to carry over to next week. He’s working two projects at once and the other project has eaten up an unexpected amount of time over the last two days. He didn’t get here until 6:00 last night and he stayed until 9:30. He can’t do that tonight due to a family thing so if the morning gig runs long he might have to miss us today. It’s all good, really. I promise. It’s all good. Still… we’re so close.

Finger crossed, home improvement style.