random update
Written on March 19, 2008 by eric
I’d better post something before I forget it all. Let’s see…
We finally have contracts for the electrical and bathroom work. None of it is actually started yet but if all goes well it should be done by the middle of April.
When Steph met with the bathroom guy, they discovered that the water leak was close to the electrical so they turned the water back off. Fortunately she also now knows where to turn it back on, so we can turn it on for a little while when we need water before it is really fixed.
We have decorative registers for the heating ducts in the living room and dining room. The dining room one doesn’t quite fit right, but hopefully Matt from Kazen Heating will be able to fix that tomorrow morning when he comes by to drop off the permit.
Another morning, a guy from the shade place came to measure the windows for shades.
Saturday morning we went paint shopping and got the paint for the kitchen, a bunch of primer, and a bunch of brushes and stuff. We also looked at fancy kitchen appliances and agonized over whether we could put in a vent hood now that would also be compatible with whatever we end up doing to the kitchen in the future.
Sunday we did some excavation behind the stove, pulling some more painted-over wallpaper off the wainscotting and digging through three layers of mangled linoleum.
And we did a trial run of the bathroom tile (laying sheets of it down on top of the existing linoleum), fortunately discovering now instead of later that the room fits a few more tiles in each direction than we had thought.
The garden has been getting kind of dry but seems to be surviving. I met the neighbor in the house behind, who told me that the back yard used to be full of stray tomato plants, so if they will grow there randomly, hopefully we can also keep them alive there on purpose.
I managed to snap one of the porch railings just by leaning on it. It should be easy to replace but was kind of alarming while it was happening. Another one of the steps has started feeling shaky too. Always one more thing that needs to be done…
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Did you see mine and Cruiser’s comments to “more more more” in LJ?
Try Sears. I’m not sure the one near you sells that stuff, you may have to go up to Hilltop. That’s where we got our range hood.
Harimad: Oops, no, I didn’t, and now it looks like the copy there has expired so I don’t know how to even get to those comments. Argh!
harimad–i haven’t been tracking thatbrownhouse comments in lj either…i’m glad they have syndicated accounts, but i think the way they are handled still needs some fine tuning…please feel free to comment here (you are approved now!)
beth–here’s what i learned about the gas/duel-fuel stoves: the old gas stoves (like the wedgewood in the house) have multiple pilot lights running constantly and therefore should be directly vented. some folks retrofit their old gas stoves to have electric igniters (like modern gas stoves) so that they do not need to be vented when not in use. i also realized that during our previous conversation about gas stoves i was grouping together gas stoves with electric igniters and duel-fuel (gas burners, electric oven) stoves…so the constantly running gas why we’re stuck with the ugly pipe (at least for now) and you don’t need one…soooooo, i’m thinking of spray painting it, but i’m not sure if that will make it more or less ugly…i wish it was in a straight line.