Frank, I know someone who really wanted to do IKEA.  Is there any particular reason you hate it?

Quote - Now the $1200 repair is a $75,000 repair.

Ouch.

Bill, my problem was more of a snowballing effect. Someone, ie not me, wanted a dishwasher.  There's 800 bucks.  Then there was a great deal on a new fridge.  2kish.  Oh look, we need cabinets for the dishwasher because I just had to wind up with the only house in north america that doesn't have kitchen cabinets.

Counter tops cost more (gotta save up for the granite I like, getting a pimp blank in the meantime).  Then I had to pull out the old counter tops and drill a screw out of my terraza floor (one more to drill out).  And of course there were some old bad patches in said floor I have to fix as well, might put in a small carpet later.  Pulled off the old vinal strip things and the gypism over the block walls went with them. 

When I pulled out the sink (getting a new sink and new faucet) it looks like there was a ton of old gypism damage that was painted over and a bunch of mold because the old sink countertop wasn't sealed right.  I've bleeched off the mold now I've got to patch the damage.

Had to get a new range hood because the old white one doesn't match our new stainless steel appliances.

The fridge came today and after a minor dent the delivery guys had to pop off my front door as there was an old center doorknob because the door was made in the 50s that I have no idea how to get off that made the dent (it's only decorative, I have a real doorknob as well) and I had to spend an hour on the phone to deal with the dent.  Plus I realized that when the last owner enclosed the front porch, he didn't put the door right in front of the front door so they are at an angle and I might have to remodel that later.

Tomorrow I have to call the city to haul away my old counter top (laminte over plywood) and some lumber and call the cabinet guy to change the plans because someone put the piping to the sink in a block wall in an odd place and I can't put the dishwasher where it was originally supposed to go.   And I have to call a plumber to deal with our hard water problem so I don't mess up the new dishwasher.

Plus I still have to paint.  The ceilings aren't white because smokers used to live here, so I got to paint that.  We couldn't agree on a single color in our first few visits so now I have to sponge on a three color deal.

Something tells me the other shoe still hasn't dropped.

WARK!

Thus Spoketh Winterclaw: a blog about a Winterclaw who speaks from time to time.

 

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