Showing posts with label our house is a very fine house. Show all posts
Showing posts with label our house is a very fine house. Show all posts

Monday, March 10, 2008

A Mess

I believe I neglected to mention that K told me the other day it was raining in her room. As I checked this out, I discovered, to my horror, that she was not only correct but it was really bad. Since S was out of town, I called Granddad and he fixed it on a very temporary basis.
Saturday we found ourselves working on getting the problem solved. This resulted in removing siding, wood, parts of studs and, eventually, the window in the girls' room. Oh, the joys of home ownership! Needless to say, the girls could not sleep in that mess so we played fruit basket turnover with the bedrooms. K and L are sleeping in H's room (K in the big bed, L in the crib) and H is in a portable crib in our closet. This will continue until all is back to normal which could be as early as tomorrow or maybe later this week. Now when I say "back to normal" I mean that everyone is back in their own rooms. That doesn't include painting both interior and exterior walls that had to be demolished. What fun!

You can see the destruction for yourself...

This is a picture of the very fine dust that is covering most of the girls' room. It ain't pretty...

Thursday, August 30, 2007

We're Officially White Trash

The other day I noticed some water on the tank of our toilet; it was streaming down the side. As I looked closer, I saw a crack in the tank. How in the world did our tank get cracked? I have no idea to this day but it was cracked and there is no way to fix it.

So today S bought us a new toilet. Now before you think that we wasted money on a whole new toilet when we really could have just bought the tank, our toilet was a very old model, a brand that hasn't been around for years. Since our house is relatively new, the contractors must have gotten a really good deal on them. Plus, the cost of a tank is only about $25 more than a whole new toilet. Hence, our decision to replace the whole thing.

We did decide to get a plumber to put in the new toilet since it's something that S isn't very familiar with and we wanted it to be done right. S did most of the removal last night so all the plumber had to was take out the old one and put the new one in.

What, you may ask, did we do with the old one?