AniAlli-Oxenfreee....,

Hardi had been all worried about noise from his fitness room, below, going up to the room occupant, and waking them up. Even knowing it was week-to-week arrangement, he was fretting. I know Jess and Matt picked up on his concern, so I thought about how to help him see my vision and stop fretting. (He has to be really OK with this room thing or I will not do it.)

This AM I went up there as he used the noisiest piece. Wide awake and listening for it, with either of the two doors open, I could hear hardly anything. Even a very light sleeper (as I am) might only dream that a faraway train is rhythmically clacking over train tracks, and wake up wondering why they never heard a whistle or how a long-torn-up set of rails could run a dawn train.


We discussed how any apartment-dweller has to deal with noise from other units....how an occupant's work schedule would fit his workout time... how he would only have to close the fitness-room's door gently if he was really worried about disturbing a fellow human bean's repose... how an occupant would be different from an invited guest, a family member, or the surly teenaged offspring he recalls.

It was a very good discussion that needed to happen, and today was the right day for it to happen. It was a lot like when he discovered that he actually IS a dog person, thanks to Faulkner's way with him.

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Also, while the ad runs, I am on to a new idea about facilitating heat getting up there from below, as it is designed and insulated to to be the primary heat source for the room above. (We even have a digital sending unit/monitor thingie that will tell us what the temp is, up there, and how low it got overnight.) I can use that NOW to see if I am right about the feasibility of heating it affordably, and to see if the temp is OK for the eventual occupant or if I need to goose the gas heater a tad.)

That way the expensive-to-run oil rad can be used less-- a flow register in the top of the lower stairwell door. And I have most of the materials on hand to do it right away-- maybe all of them-- until a cheap or free "nice" piece of metal comes my way as I know it eventually will.

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I awoke with concerns about how our landlord is going to view these potential arrangements. I've been beefing up the barter side of my plan and I looked at it all from his view (as learned form 16 years of dealings). He's gonna be fine with it if I just tell him why we need to do it NOW. Might ask him to stop by later today and set a bit on the porch to chat.

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I also have all the stuff I need for a sound-absorbing panel to add to the stairwell, to augment the sound-deadening effect of the tread-carpeting; have staple-gun, will travel (upholster).

~Susan