ready or not?
Written on December 19, 2008 by steph
last month when the ceiling lights shorted out we played quite a bit of phone tag with the electrician who rewired the house. because of the timing, it was much easier to “borrow” the contractor who was working on a friend’s attic renovation than to wait for our electrician. however, the electrician did tell us he would be coming this month to finish out his original contract with us by running power to the garage (and hopefully fixing our doorbell).
to get ready for this, we took some time a few weekends ago to clean out and organize the contents of the garage so that it’s no longer an obstacle course to move around in there. then we (well, mostly eric…since i had a sore throat and started feeling feverish) began removing one wall of the cardboard-as-wall-paneling:
see that back wall? at first glance you might think that is sheetrock (the board propped up against the wall *is* sheetrock)…alas, the material nailed to the wall is cardboard…multiple layers of (in some cases water-damaged) cardboard…on all the walls and the underside of the roof.
well, now it’s only on 2 1/2 walls and part of the roof…it got dark too early to finish the job, but eric got the parts removed where the electrical work may eventually be done…we, of course, haven’t heard from the electrician since we cleaned up the garage.
*sigh*
on a brighter and more festive note, we got our christmas tree last weekend and a few nights ago elaine came over to help decorate:
the lady’s got balls! unfortunately, i had the automatic flash setting improperly set on the camera and all the tree-trimming photos are blurry (this was the best one). the tree, however, looks lovely so i’ll have to take some better photos…
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