that brown house

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 to decide to stop working at all. Fortunately we had planned to replace it all along and already had a nice new one ready to install. Naturally this took a lot longer than we expected, and included another trip to the hardware store to buy a new shutoff valve and flexible water supply connector. Steph repainted the wall behind it, which had missed the last couple of layers of repainting. So finally we got it in and…

The door won’t close. Bah. It’s the same size as the old toilet, but the drain opening is apparently further back in it, so it sits a little bit away from the wall instead of right against it, far enough out that the door runs into it. We’ll have to take the door off and remount it so that it swings out instead of in, but that will have to wait a little while. Meanwhile we can put up a curtain or something.

The other annoying part is that we thought we had bought the extra-high-efficiency toilet tank but after we got it installed, it turned out only to be the fairly-high-efficiency kind. Maybe the store will still be willing to swap it for the other.

Other minor stuff: repainting little bits of ceiling in the dining room and office around the light fixtures, and in the kitchen around some of the electrical outlets.

The electrical situation is still a bundle of stress. We’ve got movers scheduled for Thursday, but the best we’ve been able to get out of PG&E is that they *might* be able to fit us in to get the power hooked up tomorrow. Inside, there are still bundles of wire everywhere. It may yet work out, though…