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Feb. 6th, 2014 11:07 pmBeing not happy with work more, more often...
Had some friends come over to the place last night. Was threatened with wall colors.
I wanted to clean both bathrooms and maybe the kitchen - I only had time to do one bathroom. I clorox'd the thing top to bottom, and found overall it wasn't that dirty. However, the tile is all installed wrong, with huge lines of sloppy grout and not quite square. The faucets are reversed, with hot water on the right. The sink isn't installed correctly, cheap as it is, with the drain and pipes facing off to the side at an angle (making it difficult or impossible to operate the drain pull).
After cleaning the place and putting in a shower curtain, I tried to take a shower. However, I never get any hot water. Worse, using the handle I quickly discover the only thing holding the pipes in place are...the pipes; they're not supported and move through the wall. The tub faucet is cheap and leaks (curiously the sink faucet is decent, a pfister). I get hot water from the sink, but not the tub - though it's obvious something is going on as the cold-cold water is ice cold, while the hot is at least more lukewarm. I wonder if we set the hot water heater so low that it isn't enough - the water pressure is high, and the faucet is scald proof where to get hot you must have cold all the way on. I give up on a shower, though later...minutes maybe I get hot water (or at least warm) from the tub.
For the first time, clean crappy floor and tile aside, I feel like it's not just a bad layout I'm dealing with in the house - but a place that will be genuinely uncomfortable.
After dinner and scrumptious cask beer at meridian pint, we leave through the house as I parked in the back yard. When it rained, the yard reveals it is a mud pit. I am briefly stuck in the mud but slowly spin wheels and get out.
I'm back to being in a rush to get the work done, but now trying to find ways to save money on the basement so I can do something to make the living space not suck. I don't want to be camping indoors. Gutting the entire plumbing sounds feasible and may not be more expensive than doing it up to the ceiling/floor. Elec I could more likely put off as it goes more place, but has no real liability to extend or replace once you have access to it.
I started pulling documents to move into dc - the neighbor warned me that yes, the patrol and ticket a lot (2 hour nonresident parking until 8:30, mon/tues street cleaning on different sides of the street). To register a car in DC is $78 a year, another $38 to get the parking permit, $10 for the inspection. There wasn't a good time for inspection so I'm putting that off, but pulling documents I found my birth certificate notes my DC birth - I was born in DC.
I'm more enthusiastic about the neighborhood than the place, more and more each day. I really hope to lock in some reasonable prices and get the work done to make this house what I meant it to be. I never expected a castle, but I hope I didn't overestimate what it would take to make it income generating and comfortable.
I'll know more when I start paying for digging and engineer's drawings. I was going to start on my own drawings and plans tonight, but watched rehab addict and american greed...
Had some friends come over to the place last night. Was threatened with wall colors.
I wanted to clean both bathrooms and maybe the kitchen - I only had time to do one bathroom. I clorox'd the thing top to bottom, and found overall it wasn't that dirty. However, the tile is all installed wrong, with huge lines of sloppy grout and not quite square. The faucets are reversed, with hot water on the right. The sink isn't installed correctly, cheap as it is, with the drain and pipes facing off to the side at an angle (making it difficult or impossible to operate the drain pull).
After cleaning the place and putting in a shower curtain, I tried to take a shower. However, I never get any hot water. Worse, using the handle I quickly discover the only thing holding the pipes in place are...the pipes; they're not supported and move through the wall. The tub faucet is cheap and leaks (curiously the sink faucet is decent, a pfister). I get hot water from the sink, but not the tub - though it's obvious something is going on as the cold-cold water is ice cold, while the hot is at least more lukewarm. I wonder if we set the hot water heater so low that it isn't enough - the water pressure is high, and the faucet is scald proof where to get hot you must have cold all the way on. I give up on a shower, though later...minutes maybe I get hot water (or at least warm) from the tub.
For the first time, clean crappy floor and tile aside, I feel like it's not just a bad layout I'm dealing with in the house - but a place that will be genuinely uncomfortable.
After dinner and scrumptious cask beer at meridian pint, we leave through the house as I parked in the back yard. When it rained, the yard reveals it is a mud pit. I am briefly stuck in the mud but slowly spin wheels and get out.
I'm back to being in a rush to get the work done, but now trying to find ways to save money on the basement so I can do something to make the living space not suck. I don't want to be camping indoors. Gutting the entire plumbing sounds feasible and may not be more expensive than doing it up to the ceiling/floor. Elec I could more likely put off as it goes more place, but has no real liability to extend or replace once you have access to it.
I started pulling documents to move into dc - the neighbor warned me that yes, the patrol and ticket a lot (2 hour nonresident parking until 8:30, mon/tues street cleaning on different sides of the street). To register a car in DC is $78 a year, another $38 to get the parking permit, $10 for the inspection. There wasn't a good time for inspection so I'm putting that off, but pulling documents I found my birth certificate notes my DC birth - I was born in DC.
I'm more enthusiastic about the neighborhood than the place, more and more each day. I really hope to lock in some reasonable prices and get the work done to make this house what I meant it to be. I never expected a castle, but I hope I didn't overestimate what it would take to make it income generating and comfortable.
I'll know more when I start paying for digging and engineer's drawings. I was going to start on my own drawings and plans tonight, but watched rehab addict and american greed...
