Home repair store with husband diary (This is a true story and I have pictures) Part 1
05-20-2009, 03:26 PM
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I can really relate!!!! My ceilings fell in at 2AM (8 yrs ago) on New Year's Day. We were planning on going to see my daughter in the hospital 2 hours away. Didn't go that day. The next night more of the ceiling tiles (3" sections) fell in due to ice getting up into the eaves and into the structure and the furnace melted the ice causing wet ceilings! Which fell in sections!
We went to see daughter through the delivery of her second child. We were 2 hours away. Got home and ceiling and insulation all over the floor again.
We had to pack everything I could and put it in a large van we had at the time. Everything except the bed and the appliances! We still lived in it for 3 months.
My uncle and his crew did the remodeling had to take the whole builiding back to the siding. This is in Jan to April! Plus they tore out and redid doors! In the middle of winter!!
Everything I wanted I had to fight for because my uncle and my cousin kept saying oh you don't want that and did what they wanted!!!
I won a few but lost a few too! I did get a set of shelves from floor to ceiling for my fabric but only because all they had to do was nail them to the wall. I had already made free standing shelves a couple of years before so I got my storage!!
Lots of stories but this gives you an idea. We were living out of boxes and at one point:
My husband grew up doing construction and is handicapped now but he still nows how it should be done. I had to take him to our daughters so he would quit harrassing the guys because he didn't like how they were doing it!!!! We stayed there while they put in a new bathroom new shower etc.
We went to see daughter through the delivery of her second child. We were 2 hours away. Got home and ceiling and insulation all over the floor again.
We had to pack everything I could and put it in a large van we had at the time. Everything except the bed and the appliances! We still lived in it for 3 months.
My uncle and his crew did the remodeling had to take the whole builiding back to the siding. This is in Jan to April! Plus they tore out and redid doors! In the middle of winter!!
Everything I wanted I had to fight for because my uncle and my cousin kept saying oh you don't want that and did what they wanted!!!
I won a few but lost a few too! I did get a set of shelves from floor to ceiling for my fabric but only because all they had to do was nail them to the wall. I had already made free standing shelves a couple of years before so I got my storage!!
Lots of stories but this gives you an idea. We were living out of boxes and at one point:
My husband grew up doing construction and is handicapped now but he still nows how it should be done. I had to take him to our daughters so he would quit harrassing the guys because he didn't like how they were doing it!!!! We stayed there while they put in a new bathroom new shower etc.
05-20-2009, 04:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Jim's Gem
:lol: :lol:
I've been there before. Everything takes 4 time longer and cost 5 times as much as you think it will.
I've been there before. Everything takes 4 time longer and cost 5 times as much as you think it will.
05-20-2009, 04:56 PM
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LMAO - your story is funny now because our kitchen is done.
We decided to renovate our kitchen last year. Started on Memorial Day weekend and ended in August. (Well, if you count the missing base board, we're still not done)
Gutted the place to studs and subfloor. Found out that window had leaked and had to replace the entire outside wall. (When it was 109 F in Sacramento, I had a tarp stapled to my house.) A 3-hour job to replace a window turned into a 2-week excursion.
Then we had a sewer leak and DH had to fit 2009 replacement parts to 1980s stuff. Fun ....and a yummy smell. Nothing fit, nothing matched. on and on and on...... but it turned out pretty (at least I think so)
http://s238.photobucket.com/albums/f...ilesplash3.jpg
When he got ready to install the garbage disposal, he found out that the new sink was too deep and the disposal too large and the parts wouldn't fit into the existing plumbing. That was the day I ended up balling like a baby, curled up in fetal position on the bathroom floor.
Yeah, those darling little do-it-yourself projects.
We decided to renovate our kitchen last year. Started on Memorial Day weekend and ended in August. (Well, if you count the missing base board, we're still not done)
Gutted the place to studs and subfloor. Found out that window had leaked and had to replace the entire outside wall. (When it was 109 F in Sacramento, I had a tarp stapled to my house.) A 3-hour job to replace a window turned into a 2-week excursion.
Then we had a sewer leak and DH had to fit 2009 replacement parts to 1980s stuff. Fun ....and a yummy smell. Nothing fit, nothing matched. on and on and on...... but it turned out pretty (at least I think so)
http://s238.photobucket.com/albums/f...ilesplash3.jpg
When he got ready to install the garbage disposal, he found out that the new sink was too deep and the disposal too large and the parts wouldn't fit into the existing plumbing. That was the day I ended up balling like a baby, curled up in fetal position on the bathroom floor.
Yeah, those darling little do-it-yourself projects.
05-20-2009, 04:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Rhonda
I can really relate!!!! My ceilings fell in at 2AM (8 yrs ago) on New Year's Day. We were planning on going to see my daughter in the hospital 2 hours away. Didn't go that day. The next night more of the ceiling tiles (3" sections) fell in due to ice getting up into the eaves and into the structure and the furnace melted the ice causing wet ceilings! Which fell in sections!
We went to see daughter through the delivery of her second child. We were 2 hours away. Got home and ceiling and insulation all over the floor again.
We had to pack everything I could and put it in a large van we had at the time. Everything except the bed and the appliances! We still lived in it for 3 months.
My uncle and his crew did the remodeling had to take the whole builiding back to the siding. This is in Jan to April! Plus they tore out and redid doors! In the middle of winter!!
Everything I wanted I had to fight for because my uncle and my cousin kept saying oh you don't want that and did what they wanted!!!
I won a few but lost a few too! I did get a set of shelves from floor to ceiling for my fabric but only because all they had to do was nail them to the wall. I had already made free standing shelves a couple of years before so I got my storage!!
Lots of stories but this gives you an idea. We were living out of boxes and at one point:
My husband grew up doing construction and is handicapped now but he still nows how it should be done. I had to take him to our daughters so he would quit harrassing the guys because he didn't like how they were doing it!!!! We stayed there while they put in a new bathroom new shower etc.
We went to see daughter through the delivery of her second child. We were 2 hours away. Got home and ceiling and insulation all over the floor again.
We had to pack everything I could and put it in a large van we had at the time. Everything except the bed and the appliances! We still lived in it for 3 months.
My uncle and his crew did the remodeling had to take the whole builiding back to the siding. This is in Jan to April! Plus they tore out and redid doors! In the middle of winter!!
Everything I wanted I had to fight for because my uncle and my cousin kept saying oh you don't want that and did what they wanted!!!
I won a few but lost a few too! I did get a set of shelves from floor to ceiling for my fabric but only because all they had to do was nail them to the wall. I had already made free standing shelves a couple of years before so I got my storage!!
Lots of stories but this gives you an idea. We were living out of boxes and at one point:
My husband grew up doing construction and is handicapped now but he still nows how it should be done. I had to take him to our daughters so he would quit harrassing the guys because he didn't like how they were doing it!!!! We stayed there while they put in a new bathroom new shower etc.
05-20-2009, 05:18 PM
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Not only did we live through the mess we had to replace the hot water heater due to sludge because of local water/ new kitchen sink( sunk it into my farmhouse table)/ new bathroom sink ( I fought to get them to put in plywood triangle to put the sink in!)/ new shower and new stool ( never had a reg bathroom because it was my dad' auto repair shop)and then on top of replacing or adding all these appliances - flames sprang out under our side by side refrigerator and we had to replace it and my stove quit and we had to replace it all in the same week!!!
It was a mess and I am glad that was long ago now!! We built new walls during the renovation and put a new furnace in just 10 months before all this happened!
Insurance paid for most of it because of all the storm damage due to the ice. We had water running down through the walls in almost every room and we replace three doors and one of those doors was moved a few feet over on the same wall.
It would have been easier if it hadn't been all winter but we managed!
It was a mess and I am glad that was long ago now!! We built new walls during the renovation and put a new furnace in just 10 months before all this happened!
Insurance paid for most of it because of all the storm damage due to the ice. We had water running down through the walls in almost every room and we replace three doors and one of those doors was moved a few feet over on the same wall.
It would have been easier if it hadn't been all winter but we managed!
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