Hello from the world of concrete and saw dust. I'm finally able to start cleaning it all up knowing that there won't be more added inside the house. We do FINALLY have our new floors in (sans the stairs...a different project); there will be more about how beautiful they are in a later post.
We've had plenty of things going on in addition to the floors over the past week and a half. Randomly, our dishwasher decided that it was no longer going to empty completely. We attempted a little bit of investigating on our own, but couldn't find a problem or easy remedy. Based on what I found on the internet, I was concerned that the motor might be going bad. Oh well, thought I - I'll call the home warranty company. So, a young man comes out and talks with Andy about the problem. I was told the story later (The parenthesis are all the reactions I had in my mind.) He opens the cabinet doors under the sink and is able to immediately diagnose the problem. There was a kink in the hose. (Are you kidding me??? We spent $60 to have him tell us it was a kink from moving stuff around under the sink!!! Well, this situation was bound to happen again; I guess now we know what to check first.) Whoever connected the dishwasher to the sink disposal used the wrong type of hose and it is too long. The man would check with the warranty company to see if they would cover the cost of replacing the hose with the proper kind and length. (Yeah right, the dishwasher works - why would they cover the cost of fixing something that isn't actually broken?) Low and behold, the company says they will cover the cost. (Yippee!!! It worked out well for us that the hose got a kink so that we could have the proper kind of plumbing under the sink.) They fixed this on Sunday (a week ago that is).
The flooring installation happened Monday - Wednesday.
Tuesday afternoon, they stopped installing early so that after work Andy could crawl under the house to investigate a place that kept creaking no matter what they did to fix it. So, Wednesday morning, Andy zipped up his white (coverall) suit - like you would wear in a clean room - and crawled under the house. After me stomping on the creaky spot a whole bunch, Andy found the culprit. We have a beam that is cracked, almost the entire length of the beam. Thankfully, several men have told us how easy it will be to fix and exactly how Andy should do it AND it shouldn't be expensive.
Still Wednesday morning - Andy changes from his white suit into his work clothes, drives off, and comes back. There is a river of water running down the side of the driveway to the road. In my grungy clothes, I hopped around trying to find where the leak appears to start. We identify it and turn off the water to the property. Andy heads off to work, the guys finish installing the flooring, and a plumber comes out to fix the burst coupling in the supply pipe to the house from the main water line.
We think that the floors are beautiful....of course, they are rather clean right now....
We think that the floors are beautiful....of course, they are rather clean right now....
No comments:
Post a Comment