Tuesday, June 1, 2010

So many trips to Lowe's

Well the weekend got better. We tried not to dwell on the fact that we cant have a sink and continued work.
The design will change now to just going straight across the wall instead of L shaped meaning we can save some of the granite we bought for the vanity counter top remodel that's in the distant future.
Electrical design also changed but that's not very exciting to talk about.

When John cut out the sheetrock to run electrical we found black mold on the sheetrock in the adjoining room. Not really sure how it got there since it's not by any water, we're thinking that it's from the previous owners. I've heard some weird stories about them from my neighbors and we're coming across their escapades.
I knew they kept a giant boa constrictor in the room that is now our family room and we found where the tank was when we pulled up the carpet. It was a huge cage, we're talking 4 feet by 5 feet and it looks like it was nailed into the cement. They also had the heating lamp hard wired into the ceiling and left the light boxes for us right in the middle of the room. How nice. Good thing that whole ceiling is being ripped out (not all of it right now, just sometime in the future)and those can be tossed.
So back to the mold, we have to tear out the mold infested sheetrock in the bedroom and replace it. We dont want to die from some random disease now, do we?

After 6 trips to Lowe's and 4 to Home Depot (oh I'm not exaggerating, I promise) we should have returned everything we dont need and have everything we do. John somewhat started electrical last night but by 7:30 he was hungry for dinner and we decided to call our weekend quits. At least the dirt is back in the trying-to-find-sewer-line hole and cemented.

We did buy our first fish related thing this weekend though, dont get too excited, it's nothing you'd even see.
It's a Reverse Osmosis filter for the top off mechanism (that we dont have yet) for the sump (which we also dont have yet).
John needed it to do the plumbing while the sheetrock is cut out so we're a 1/16th of the way there on the fish! Woot!

Tonight is going to be a long night, I'm wishing I would have put meatloaf in the crock pot...

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