But leading up to the party I decided I wanted to install a bathroom. Seemed pretty simple. I mean, the pipes were all there, the water worked, all we needed to do was get a toilet and a vanity and hook it up. Even I thought I could handle that.
So we started installing stick-down tiles at 4:30 on Friday night, got to the toilet around 10:00, and finished around 11:30. We got up the next morning in time for the trash haulers to take away our monstrous cast iron tub (not the pretty kind) so we could finish installing the tile and put in the vanity. We finished the vanity by 1:00, except for the missing piece.
(Sorry I can't figure out how to rotate these photos)
Did I mention that we were having a party at 7:00 that night? So when I came back from the store around 3:00, with groceries and everything Gerd had an unpleasant surprise for me. Sure, the water worked, but the drain pipe. The drain pipe on the other hand did not work. There's about a 2 foot long crack that runs down to the main line. Flushing the toilet resulted in a gush of water Gerd found while looking for a tool in the basement. At least it wasn't flowing through our heater this time. That was last weekend.
The party went well and nobody seemed to mind our dining room bathroom, or were at least polite enough not to mention anything about it.
But this morning our woes weren't over. The heat turned off around 10:00 and is still out. Thank goodness for home warantees. The heater guy is looking at it now. Other than our disastrous trip to drop off the Mini, we've been wholed into our living room with a miniture space heater and about 6 candles to keep warm. It could be worse, the house only got down to about 60.
After we got a time frame that the heater guy would show up we decided to go drop off the Mini in the mean time. Not so good. We think the engine might need to be replaced. Apparently the coolant hose disconnected while Gerd was driving it and it started smoking. There was another hose that we couldn't figure out where it connected too, but Gerd decided to keep driving anyway (we were only 5 miles away from where we were going). At first there wasn't anymore smoke, but then it came back like before, but this time the engine block was leaking something.
Just when I hoped we were done with bad luck my computer cord stopped working. If I have to replace it, this will be the 4th cord I'll have had to buy for this computer.
So it was just one of those weekends. Hope yours was lest costly, less frustrating, and less cold.
2 comments:
When it rains, it pours. Sorry to hear about all your bad luck this weekend! If your heat's still out, try spending the day in the kitchen with the oven going (cook for a month, make a ton of christmas cookies, buy a freezer full of berries from the grocery store and make jam....) :)
The vanity and floor do look nice, so once the plumbing woes are over you'll have a nice bathroom, and a great story for later.
Thanks Kristi, I've been trying to look on the positive side. The Mini wasn't my main form of transportation, I still have my Yaris. The head did come back on and the cost was pretty much covered by our home warranty. Gerd got my cord working. We think we might be able to replace the pipe ourselves (hopefully).
I debated the kitchen, but the house was still so full of food from the party that the thought of spending another moment in the kitchen was unthinkable. I'm seriously debating having a left-overs party. We've only got 2 more weeks until the trip and I don't think I need to cook anything between now and then. Although canning sounds like fun.
The idea was to decorate the tree, but I decided I wanted to be in a better mood for that, so everything goes on tonight. Everything is better after a good night's sleep.
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