Two days without progress. Can't afford that kind of thing.
Spent all day yesterday working on the basement bathroom. Negative progress, actually. Was going to put the insulation behind the shower enclosure and discovered that the guy who installed the plumbing did a lousy job.
The wood he used for the crosspieces (to hang the shower valve and the shower head on) looked like rejects from the scrap pile. They were both hanging by a single screw. Not good. The wall behind the enclosure wasn't squared up. And because of that, the enclosure pieces didn't meet up square. And he'd screwed them into place crooked.
Took me most of the day to get it all straightened out. Had to remove the wall he'd built, then the wall I'd built, then the overhead lights, then move the vanity out of the way so I could take both walls into the other room where the power tools were waiting; then cut & measure, cut & measure, replace bad wood with good wood, move 'em back into the bathroom, fit check, measure, fit check again, re-measure, attach & re-measure again.
Almost done. Just need a few finishing touches on the shower wall and then move everything back into place and re-hang the overhead lights.
But it's time to stop for the night. Got a Sunday School lesson what needs attention. Guess I'll get back to work on the basement tomorrow.
So ... got up on Sunday morning and rode with Mary to the church. Noticed that the red car was sounding a bit ... loud. Like a hole in the exhaust. A really big hole. Asked Mary about it. She said it had been that way for a few days.
After church, rode home with the girls and it was still very loud. Thought I'd better take a look at it when we got home, so put it into the garage up on the ramps. Took a peek.
Oh, my! Three feet of exhaust pipe completely missing. From the end of the resonator all the way to the muffler flange. Gone!
And Deb needs it to drive to a babysitting job tonight.
Priorities, priorities. Scrapped the idea of working on the basement. After our family meeting, I headed back out to the garage and crawled underneath the car and pulled the exhaust system (south of the catalytic converters) off -- in two pieces -- then grabbed the "spare" exhaust system from my Hanger Queen and worked it into place. Took a couple hours, just in time for Deb to take it to her babysitting job.
The rest of the evening was spent moving the stacks of flooring out of the garage and into the mechanical room, and my computer junk out of the basement and into my bedroom, to make room for the kitchenette cabinets.
That'll be a job for tomorrow. For now, I'm exhausted. Again.
Spent all day yesterday working on the basement bathroom. Negative progress, actually. Was going to put the insulation behind the shower enclosure and discovered that the guy who installed the plumbing did a lousy job.
Took me most of the day to get it all straightened out. Had to remove the wall he'd built, then the wall I'd built, then the overhead lights, then move the vanity out of the way so I could take both walls into the other room where the power tools were waiting; then cut & measure, cut & measure, replace bad wood with good wood, move 'em back into the bathroom, fit check, measure, fit check again, re-measure, attach & re-measure again.
Almost done. Just need a few finishing touches on the shower wall and then move everything back into place and re-hang the overhead lights.
But it's time to stop for the night. Got a Sunday School lesson what needs attention. Guess I'll get back to work on the basement tomorrow.
So ... got up on Sunday morning and rode with Mary to the church. Noticed that the red car was sounding a bit ... loud. Like a hole in the exhaust. A really big hole. Asked Mary about it. She said it had been that way for a few days.
After church, rode home with the girls and it was still very loud. Thought I'd better take a look at it when we got home, so put it into the garage up on the ramps. Took a peek.
Oh, my! Three feet of exhaust pipe completely missing. From the end of the resonator all the way to the muffler flange. Gone!
And Deb needs it to drive to a babysitting job tonight.
Priorities, priorities. Scrapped the idea of working on the basement. After our family meeting, I headed back out to the garage and crawled underneath the car and pulled the exhaust system (south of the catalytic converters) off -- in two pieces -- then grabbed the "spare" exhaust system from my Hanger Queen and worked it into place. Took a couple hours, just in time for Deb to take it to her babysitting job.
The rest of the evening was spent moving the stacks of flooring out of the garage and into the mechanical room, and my computer junk out of the basement and into my bedroom, to make room for the kitchenette cabinets.
That'll be a job for tomorrow. For now, I'm exhausted. Again.
1 comment:
Surely you are not going to pay the plumber and you will report him to the better business bureau so maybe no one else will hire him to do such poor work.
Sounds like you need some time off to come look at your dad's car barn.
Love you guys much.
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