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Home repairs......
Dec. 1st, 2007 03:45 pmYesterday morning the dog darted in front of me while chasing one of the cats and over I went landing on the coffee table, which broke. The wood is oak, but it's only 3/4 inch thick. When this bear landed on it, the base snapped right along its grain. I'm rather fond of this table; its the perfect size and shape for the place we have it, in the sitting room in front of the love seat and next to my oak rocking chair. It's where I have breakfast most morning and where I set my tea.
I knew what to do to fix it, so prior to going into the office I stopped at Homo Depot, to pick up a few foot long red oak blocks, some wood screws and some glue. I called my husband at his meeting and warned him if he turned the coffee table into fire wood, I would be highly displeased. As I drove home last night, he called to try talking me out of 'wasting' my time doing a repair on the table, that we would get a replacement at the auction house for $40. I was having none of it. I find the tossing out of something repairable offensive, and just not green. (I am such a bloody New Englander!)
So after he left the house this morning, out came the drill and the supplies I'd picked up and now the table is back to its rightful place in the sitting room. The crack in the base is plain to see if you look for it, but it doesn't jump out at you. With the blocks glued and screwed into place cross grain its much stronger than prior to my fall.
As for other repairs today, the dryer is finally fixed. Six weeks ago, it fritzed. I called my bud, who works for the appliance shop to get the parts for a repair and unfortunately it proved to be a round 'tuit'. He asked the ordering person at work to order the parts needed, only to find out Wed. morning there had been a miscommunication between them. He'd also asked her to order some refrigerator parts for a european fridge he needed to fix and she ordered those, but not parts for the american made dryer. Whenever he asked about the order, she told him the parts hadn't come in. So after 6 weeks of waiting, my parts finally got ordered Wednesday and arrived yesterday. A buddy of his came over this morning, pulled apart the machine and fixed it. All it took was 30 minutes and a couple of solenoids. My cost? $120 and I have a good as new dryer, now doing it's second (no, make that third) load of laundry since its resurrection a few hours ago. We've been using our clothesline to dry things, however, given our weather and the fact we actually live in a redwood forest, its been very impractical. Temperatures have gotten down to the low 30's at night here, and with nightfall so early since the demise of daylight savings, the amount of time during the day we could actually dry clothing has been fairly limited.
I knew what to do to fix it, so prior to going into the office I stopped at Homo Depot, to pick up a few foot long red oak blocks, some wood screws and some glue. I called my husband at his meeting and warned him if he turned the coffee table into fire wood, I would be highly displeased. As I drove home last night, he called to try talking me out of 'wasting' my time doing a repair on the table, that we would get a replacement at the auction house for $40. I was having none of it. I find the tossing out of something repairable offensive, and just not green. (I am such a bloody New Englander!)
So after he left the house this morning, out came the drill and the supplies I'd picked up and now the table is back to its rightful place in the sitting room. The crack in the base is plain to see if you look for it, but it doesn't jump out at you. With the blocks glued and screwed into place cross grain its much stronger than prior to my fall.
As for other repairs today, the dryer is finally fixed. Six weeks ago, it fritzed. I called my bud, who works for the appliance shop to get the parts for a repair and unfortunately it proved to be a round 'tuit'. He asked the ordering person at work to order the parts needed, only to find out Wed. morning there had been a miscommunication between them. He'd also asked her to order some refrigerator parts for a european fridge he needed to fix and she ordered those, but not parts for the american made dryer. Whenever he asked about the order, she told him the parts hadn't come in. So after 6 weeks of waiting, my parts finally got ordered Wednesday and arrived yesterday. A buddy of his came over this morning, pulled apart the machine and fixed it. All it took was 30 minutes and a couple of solenoids. My cost? $120 and I have a good as new dryer, now doing it's second (no, make that third) load of laundry since its resurrection a few hours ago. We've been using our clothesline to dry things, however, given our weather and the fact we actually live in a redwood forest, its been very impractical. Temperatures have gotten down to the low 30's at night here, and with nightfall so early since the demise of daylight savings, the amount of time during the day we could actually dry clothing has been fairly limited.
