May 29, 2008 by steph
back in march we purchased a washer and dryer. we surprised the salesperson by asking if we could hold off on delivery until late april (instead of wanting delivery asap). we figured that the electrician was starting mid-march (with an estimated 2-3 weeks of work) and the piping would be done in april […]
May 28, 2008 by eric
Um, so yeah, we’re not moving in tomorrow. We still have no working electricity.
We did succeed in finally putting a coat of paint on the bathroom walls last night, though.
May 27, 2008 by eric
The real accomplishment of the weekend was getting a coat of primer and two finish coats onto the ceiling, window frame, and door frame in the bathroom. Unfortunately I don’t have a picture to post where you can actually tell that anything has changed.
Meanwhile, in the half-bath, the old, leaky, many-gallons-per-flush toilet chose Sunday […]
May 23, 2008 by eric
Yesterday, Steph mentioned that the old water heater would be gone before we had a chance to take a picture of the old and new ones side by side. But as fate would have it, when we got to the house last night, the old water heater was still there, so here they […]
May 22, 2008 by steph
no contractors called me at all today. weird. at least, if nobody is calling, nobody is giving me bad news.
yesterday, conversely, turned into another headache. i wrote previously that the electrician had passed the rough-in re-inspection; however, the inspector didn’t leave the green slip/sticker that pg&e needs to see before switching the […]
May 19, 2008 by steph
i think the big questions on the minds of everybody who knows us are, “are you ever moving in?” and “aside from the inspector/water heater stress, what have you been doing for the past two weeks?”
well, we gave notice to be out of the apartment june 1…we’re very skeptical that we will have both the […]
May 12, 2008 by steph
we’d love to subscribe to this philosophy, especially considering the number of little things that are broken yet are not getting fixed; however, the city of oakland has a different concept of “broke” than we do and are manipulating us into going broke to “fix” the one system that had already been updated […]
May 5, 2008 by steph
we made the final payment to the bathroom contractor on may 1st, exactly 1 month after he started work…which is exactly twice as long as his estimate for how long it would take…we did, however, request a few additional services (the laundry room hookups, a vent for the kitchen sink…) and we are very pleased […]
