Productive Day

I took a half day off from work today to meet with the many guys that were coming over to do inspections and set-ups and I'm really glad I did. Last night I put the first coat of paint on the kitchen and put the second coat on today. As I was painting, all my service/repair guys started showing up. First came the wood stove guy. While he was measuring and explaining things to me, the guy who's going to fix my foundation and treat for termites showed up to set off a bomb (bug bomb) under the house to kill all the black widows before he crawls under there on Monday. Really smart idea. Then the satellite tv guy showed up and I pointed out where I wanted the cable to go and he said he could crawl under the house and just put the cable through right there. Perfect, I thought. I went back to discussing my woodstove and the foundation/termite guy came back in. Thankfully he was paying a little more attention to what was going on than I was. He had ran into the tv guy when they were both going under the house. The foundation/termite guy decided he should hold off on setting the bomb off until the tv guy was out from under there. Hmmm. I must have been very distracted.


Just as the tv guy was explaining my new satellite tv to me, the jacuzzi guy popped his head in to say he'd be out looking at the jacuzzi. I finished up with the tv guy, everyone else had left, and then I headed out to meet with the jacuzzi guy. He found the problem (or what we hope is the problem) real quick. The drain plug wasn't closed tightly. Har har har. Anyway, so I got a good lesson on jacuzzi science and some jacuzzi chemistry as well as tips and tricks. Turns out you need a wedge to get the filter on and off. We'll revisit that thought.

So the jacuzzi guy left and I went about finishing setting up the futon and saw the foundation/termite guy pull back up into the driveway. He went about securing something over the crawl space entry, then waved and shouted that he'd be back on Monday. I finished the futon, rearranged what little furniture I had, and went out to clean and re-set up the jacuzzi. I vacuumed it out with the new technique the jacuzzi guy had taught me, then refilled it. I cleaned out the filter and then fought to get the darn thing back on. See, I don't have the magical wedge that you have to use to get the thing on and off. So I went about trying to find things to improvise with. I ended up with a knife. Yeah, I know. And yes I gave up on that one after slicing my finger.

I walked about the house looking for something to use as a wedge (that wouldn't kill me or cause me further harm). My eyes spotted a lone kayak oar that the seller had left hanging in the carport. Ah ha! Worked like a charm. I buttoned everything up and turned on the heater. I'll check on it in a bit. Maybe it'll get hot fast enough for me to crawl in tonight.

I'll post new pics of the kitchen after I do some touch-up on it tomorrow and get the stove and refrigerator back in place. For now, here's the pics of the jacuzzi room floor before and after. I apologize for the mess of the before picture, but I suppose it just makes the change look that much more dramatic.




What's on the floor is just a simple cement stain. It comes in a few different colors and is semi-transparent unlike cement paint. I didn't want anything too different which is why I went with the stain instead of the paint. I also feel it has a softer natural look to it than paint. The walls will also be painted when I figure out which color to use. And of course I'll post pics once I do that.