Living in a construction zone...
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osodecanelaWe started to remodel in early May. It's still going on. Now, while most of the work was going on outside the house (new roofing, painting, new road based on the property, new septic system, etc.) things were not too bad. However, once they got inside the house and contents of rooms had to get moved, life got a whole lot more interesting. Lots of stuff wound up out on the deck, at least temporarily.
What used to be the sun porch, is now the bedroom, with a new walk-in closet in space that used to be part of the deck, and brand-new exterior walls. (And by the end of the week, a new wood stove.) What used to be the bedroom, is now it's sitting/entertainment room, or at least will be will remove the TV, DVD player, stereo system into what used to be LJ's closet. The bathroom is newly painted, with a new toilet, and what used to be laundry room is now just a utility room, also newly painted, as the washer and dryer are now in the new laundry closet (also previously space that used to be part of the deck). There's new roofing over the stairs going up stairs as well as over the section of deck leading to the staircase.
This is not to say there haven't been problems. The new cabinets installed in the garage (now my art studio) are coming away from the wall. I plan to spend this evening trying to remedy that. (Amazing what you can do with power tools, and two by twos). Then there was the little surprise, I had in the shower on Sunday. We have an on-demand water heater, so water takes a little bit to warm up. Our contractor had fixed the leaky faucets, so they no longer were leaky. Unfortunately, when the water started to go cold during my shower, I turned the hot water up a little bit, only to have the faucet come off in my hand, and water went flying everywhere! Thank God, it hadn't had time to turn ultra-hot, or I would have been scalded from my knees up to my nipples.
What used to be the sun porch, is now the bedroom, with a new walk-in closet in space that used to be part of the deck, and brand-new exterior walls. (And by the end of the week, a new wood stove.) What used to be the bedroom, is now it's sitting/entertainment room, or at least will be will remove the TV, DVD player, stereo system into what used to be LJ's closet. The bathroom is newly painted, with a new toilet, and what used to be laundry room is now just a utility room, also newly painted, as the washer and dryer are now in the new laundry closet (also previously space that used to be part of the deck). There's new roofing over the stairs going up stairs as well as over the section of deck leading to the staircase.
This is not to say there haven't been problems. The new cabinets installed in the garage (now my art studio) are coming away from the wall. I plan to spend this evening trying to remedy that. (Amazing what you can do with power tools, and two by twos). Then there was the little surprise, I had in the shower on Sunday. We have an on-demand water heater, so water takes a little bit to warm up. Our contractor had fixed the leaky faucets, so they no longer were leaky. Unfortunately, when the water started to go cold during my shower, I turned the hot water up a little bit, only to have the faucet come off in my hand, and water went flying everywhere! Thank God, it hadn't had time to turn ultra-hot, or I would have been scalded from my knees up to my nipples.
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Date: 2006-08-30 01:55 pm (UTC)on demand water heaters
Date: 2006-08-30 05:21 pm (UTC)We have an added issue you probably won't have. You have to have enough water flowing thru the pipe to turn the heater on, likely not a problem given your city location, but at times a problem here in the country, where frankly our water pressure is lousy. When we try to adjust the temperature of the water coming out of the spigot, there are time we wind up dropping the amount of hot water flow too low, and the heater clicks off. More often than not we have to leave the hot water running at a low level in the sink, te keep enough flow going on in the system.