Tuesday
As a wise old friend told me. You have to break eggs to make an omelet.
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Week 7 - Day 32
Tuesday
Yowzers, it's cold, -6 or so. Doesn't seem to bother these two, though. They are putting in the patio doors in Linda's kitchen.
Things that make you go mmmmm
We have come across of tons of these little white cocoon things as the demo continued. Gabe tells me that they are spiders' eggs. Aaaah.
Week 7 - Day 31
Monday
They put in my patio door today, first purchase done. Now just have to figure out the door hardware. They started to prep the opening for the french door in Linda's kitchen. Gabe only had time to take the back door framing out and to board it up. We had to reorder the third french door that came, ordered an out swing for Linda's master, when it should be an in swing as there is no deck going there presently, city said no that. So a week or two for that to come. Oops.
They put in my patio door today, first purchase done. Now just have to figure out the door hardware. They started to prep the opening for the french door in Linda's kitchen. Gabe only had time to take the back door framing out and to board it up. We had to reorder the third french door that came, ordered an out swing for Linda's master, when it should be an in swing as there is no deck going there presently, city said no that. So a week or two for that to come. Oops.
Bananas?
I am Yoko Ono. I am pretty much living in my bed. Eating, sleeping, reading, hanging out. Cold, cold, cold, well below freezing without the space heaters.
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Week 7 - Weekend
Finally got the fridge from the main floor kitchen moved downstairs. It's a treat to have everything on one floor. We have walked the house together to work on what we want for electrical and did some appliance shopping. Easier to have someone to talk things out with. The temperature has dropped, well below freezing. The construction heaters really don't keep up in the basement or on the main floor where Linda is. I don't want to leave my cave to venture out!
All right, this all may be stupid, but you didn't hear it from me.
Another added treat is that the boiler keeps shutting itself off. The vent outside is sitting sideways and sometimes the wind blows into it that is what happens when there is a problem with the ventilation. One good story after another.
Week 7 - Weekend
Snowed big time Friday night and had another collapse upstairs along with the accompanying leaks through all 3 floors. hahaha...getting good at it now.
Week 7 - Day 30
Friday
So long to Brandon, as this is his last day. He gutted my bathroom and cleaned up good before he left.
Week 7 - Day 30
Friday
The patio french doors came today, looking forward to seeing them installed. We had a 'design' meeting with Will to go over things that we need to get done and the decisions that need to be made. Particularly the electrical and where we want plugs etc. Need to find stoves as the plumber will need to need to know the specs for installing the gas lines. Oh, and Will temporarily vented the boiler out the side of the house from the basement, great to have it out of the way.
Week 7 - Day 30
Friday
Didn't get much sleep last night due to the Niagara Falls coming through the house. All okay, because excellent blog material. What would I have to say if nothing happened. Here is my propped up tarp trying to keep the rain out.
Week 7 - Day 29
Thursday
Ahhh, turns out they disconnected about half of the radiators. There is still structural in the basement that needs to be done and some of the lines were in the way. The power vent is still back east somewhere and they were unable to find one in town, so the vent still hanging out the window. Some framing here and there was done today, and that's all she wrote.
Week 7 - Day 29
Thursday
Good news, they are putting in the power vent for the boiler today so we won't be gassed during the night. In the meantime the guys cleaned up the area and pushed the vent up above the window and I can turn the heat back on.
Plumbers Paul and Brad are here and the whole heating system is being drained, not exactly sure what is going on, wait and see I guess.
Week 7 - Day 28
Wednesday evening.
The boiler has shut itself off again. Ah ha ! I now know where the reset switch is. Went about my business in the basement and came upstairs later and the exhaust is blowing back into the house. That can't be good and Lord it stinks.
All that can be done at this point is to push the vent farther through the window. This involved getting the oven mitts out, hot to the touch by this time, taking a mallet to it to flatten it a bit so I could close the window more. Nothing like heating up the great outdoors. Also duck taped the holes along portion of the the vent that is still in the house. Taped vapour barrier over the window to try to help with the cold air and the fumes but it's still coming in. We have decided to turn the thing off for the night just to be on the safe side.
Now I think he is trying to kill us.
Week 7 - Day 28
Wednesday
Back to the the blustery, rainy weather. Things are starting to pick up for decisions that need to be made. Door hardware, kitchen design, lighting, electrical, radiators, doors, tubs. Yikes. Going to yoga, that might clear my head.
They closed in my deck today and put up a temp railing, yeah. In order to do that, something had to be done with the boiler vent so it is currently hanging out the kitchen window.
Week 7 - Day 27
Tuesday
Woke up this morning to a beautiful sunny day. Luck on our side.
Work has continued on the new roof and my bathroom is no more. Will was somewhat entertaining, knew something was up when I heard him running through the house to shut off the water. Nothing major, just funny. The porch over the back door has been taken down, getting ready for the french doors for the main floor kitchen.
Looking good, like it's always been there.
The porch over the back door. French doors will replace the kitchen window to the right. All summer I could hear a lot of buzzing in there and Brandon found several nests when he took it down.
The boiler vent isn't holding up very well. This will be relocated at some point.
Lulu. No worries, he is doing okay.
Looking good, like it's always been there.
Monday, November 29, 2010
Week 7 - Day 26
Monday
Terrible, rainy, blustery Vancouver day. All day. Not sure what has been going on but I got home about 10pm and the tarp had come loose and was dangling off the side of the house. Unfortunately, no pictures. Wind was still howling, and there I am trying to pull in a 20' tarp back up to secure it somehow, with a flashlight.
Sometime later, I heard someone pound up the front stairs and back down again. Assuming it was the neighbour, either to tell us about it or to tell us to stop the noise. Doesn't bother me too much, but I can understand it would be somewhat irritating. Not much I can do about it, not planning to get up on the roof. By this time the tarp had slipped again and I managed to secure it a little better by jamming it in one of the windows and securing parts of it down with some electrical wire hanging around. Looks tight now, what will be. The rain has at least stopped and looks like the sky is clear, so hopefully it doesn't rain through the night as the roof is wide open to the elements now. I am living the Red Green show.
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