BS: A house! A house!

Subject: RE: BS: A house! A house!
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Dec 03 - 09:29 AM

Pene Azul has put up Part 2 to the photos. These are indicative of some of the problems we've had corrected with the electrical (and the heating ducts). I think that the second freezer is full of covers for junction boxes, since an AWFUL lot of them didn't have covers. (Why? The covers come with the boxes when you buy them, so it can't be cost. Unless, of course, you have this 'thing' for junction box covers and use them for jewelry or sew them to leathern jacks. I dunno.)

Subject: RE: BS: A house! A house!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 09 Dec 03 - 03:53 PM

Here is part 2 of those photos.

Those exposed wires look like a nasty shock for whomever did the inspection.

Subject: RE: BS: A house! A house!
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Dec 03 - 05:02 PM

An even nastier shock awaited whoever touched the exposed 220v. line. Would have been nice if the house had been grounded, too.

Subject: RE: BS: A house! A house!
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Jan 04 - 05:05 PM

For those who might be interested:

We had to rebuild the master bath from the subflooring up -- new subfloor, new substrate, new shower (!), new toilet, new tile, new vinyl floor covering.

BUT IT'S DONE!! Tomorrow, approximately two months after closing, the house will be thoroughly cleaned and Saturday, January 10, we start moving boxes and stuff.

Huzzah! Hurrah! Caloo! Calay!

Now, if anyone wants to pop over and help...preferably someone with a good pickup truck or such....

Subject: RE: BS: A house! A house!
From: Amos
Date: 08 Jan 04 - 05:32 PM

Congrats, Rap!! Nice to hear you chortling in your joy!!

A

Subject: RE: BS: A house! A house!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 10 Jan 04 - 07:33 PM

We want more photos, please! I hope you had a good moving day.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: A house! A house!
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Jan 04 - 12:30 AM

Well, we moved SOME stuff. We'll have the big stuff -- like sofas and refrigerators and like that -- moved by big strong folks with great big trucks. You can only get so much into my Civic and Pat's Accord.

But a start has been made.

Okay, I'll see about some more pictures. Maybe snow pix.

Subject: RE: BS: A house! A house!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 11 Jan 04 - 01:19 AM

Hover nearby and don't let them sneak anything past you when they bring the big stuff. Moving companies hire casual labor who don't know a castor from a tuning fork and are liable to carry things wrong and hide anything that was broken in transit or as it was unloaded.

Some years ago I caught the movers rolling antique furniture up a 100 foot driveway, and told them to carry it. They weren't happy, but those castors aren't for concrete, it wears them down and embeds sand so they'll scratch the floor. They're for moving the furniture a few feet so you can vacuum behind it.

I use my own system for labeling so anything valuable in a box isn't identifiable. I can tell by where my label said it should go in the house what it is. The last move, I made on my own over the course of a couple of weeks. I moved everything except the upright grand piano.

I HATE having to use movers. It's like offering an invitation to case the joint.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: A house! A house!
From: Peace
Date: 11 Jan 04 - 08:41 PM

Rap, I hope things are going well.

SRS, I have to ask. Did you or did you not locate Jimmy Hoffa in the freezer?

Subject: RE: BS: A house! A house!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 12 Jan 04 - 12:00 AM

Whose freezer? Rapaire is the guy with all of the extra freezers under his back porch! (But my best friend's father was Hoffa's treasurer for a number of years way back when. . .)

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: A house! A house!
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Jan 04 - 09:26 AM

Okay, I've asked Jeff to post four more pictures.

The floor in the master bath was rotten -- a combination of tiling over a leak in the shower without fixing it and a pinched gasket between the toilet tank and the toilet bowl -- which required new subfloor, shower and vinyl floor covering. That's the reason for the pix of the new shower. Yes, that's me in the shower; please try to contain yourself.

The pink toilet picture is the half-bath; the tank was cracked and glued together. THIS TOILET NO LONGER EXISTS! We replaced it with the beige one that had been in the master bath and got a new, white, one for the master bath.

It has been decided the the freezer were poor people's hot tubs. Fill with water, climb in, and use one of those "hot water in your cup" immersion heaters. We still haven't opened the second one because the snow makes it hard to get to.

We've started moving things to the house, and given notice at the rental where we've been living that we will vacate no later than February 15.

Subject: RE: BS: A house! A house!
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Jan 04 - 01:16 PM

The new pictures are up.

Subject: RE: BS: A house! A house!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 12 Jan 04 - 01:53 PM

Here they are. That's a good looking repair on the shower.

SRS