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for the love of god, montresor
16 Nov 2020 02:34 pmWax has started walling up the doorway between the main house and the tenant's wing; I just need to run a static dust cloth over the floor again to get the magic eraser residue and dust (there's always more dust, no matter how recently you dusted or swept or vaccuumed, when you live with angora house bunnies).
The stove on the tenant's side is super short for some reason and to bring it up to level with the counter we had to set it on top of two by fours, but now there's a gap where dust can go under the cabinets - like a whole window along the front of it, really. So I'd like to close that up, only I'm not quite sure what to put there. We do have some remnants of toekick plastic, but ideally it wouldn't be too hard to remove it. And it sticks out a centimeter or so forward of the toekick under the cabinets beside it. Once there's a wall there of course the fur won't be migrating over anymore and her allergies aren't too bad right now, but kitchens still have crumbs and it's just a terrible idea to leave a two-inch gap right above the floor that's too small to fit a vacuum or broom into which crumbs and dust can use to sneak under the entire bank of cabinets and hide back there. (Actually the side of the cabinets is still open - the toekick doesn't wrap around between the wall and the corner cabinet but there's like four inches there that you can slide a folded stepstool or a shopping bag into. Or a cat. The BB loved to dart back there and use the gap to schlorp under the cabinets just for fun, when she was playing Mission Impossible or Spy vs Spy with imaginary opponents. But at least the dust has to collect back there along the wall and then slide backwards around the corner first. The gap under the stove is practically centered in the room.)
Wax still has to work four more days after this. And after her NINE-DAY week, her next working week is eight days in a row. Unfortunately we have a lot of things to do, starting with building the wall that she's building, but also hanging the laundry rack so we can do laundry and the last remaining kitchen shelf, and then...
It's been a foggy few days, dim and white and around 6-7°C (43-45 F) outside. That makes it annoying getting out of bed in the morning, but it's not actually too bad inside; it's 16°-17° (61-63) on our side of the house all the time. The problem is that the sensor that the geothermal heat pump uses to heat the radiators is on the other side of the house, which is significantly warmer than this side even though we turned most of the radiators there almost all the way down. If we adjust the settings on the water heater to warm this side, it'll cook the tenant, so we can't really do much there. She's still away writing because she has a deadline (scholarly non-fiction) and her desk here is inaccessible under boxes of stuff.
The stove on the tenant's side is super short for some reason and to bring it up to level with the counter we had to set it on top of two by fours, but now there's a gap where dust can go under the cabinets - like a whole window along the front of it, really. So I'd like to close that up, only I'm not quite sure what to put there. We do have some remnants of toekick plastic, but ideally it wouldn't be too hard to remove it. And it sticks out a centimeter or so forward of the toekick under the cabinets beside it. Once there's a wall there of course the fur won't be migrating over anymore and her allergies aren't too bad right now, but kitchens still have crumbs and it's just a terrible idea to leave a two-inch gap right above the floor that's too small to fit a vacuum or broom into which crumbs and dust can use to sneak under the entire bank of cabinets and hide back there. (Actually the side of the cabinets is still open - the toekick doesn't wrap around between the wall and the corner cabinet but there's like four inches there that you can slide a folded stepstool or a shopping bag into. Or a cat. The BB loved to dart back there and use the gap to schlorp under the cabinets just for fun, when she was playing Mission Impossible or Spy vs Spy with imaginary opponents. But at least the dust has to collect back there along the wall and then slide backwards around the corner first. The gap under the stove is practically centered in the room.)Wax still has to work four more days after this. And after her NINE-DAY week, her next working week is eight days in a row. Unfortunately we have a lot of things to do, starting with building the wall that she's building, but also hanging the laundry rack so we can do laundry and the last remaining kitchen shelf, and then...
- painting and wallpapering and laying a floating floor and putting back the baseboards and trim in the entry hall
- it's possible that the two-story wall at the back of the staircase needs to be skimcoated to fix it, because there's a horrible wallpaper with like a 1960s photo print of a bunch of cobblestones like the floor of a patio???, and it's buckled and stained and ripped in spots and it can't be removed but it also can't just be painted over. (I mean obviously I have to do the skim coating or whatever, since Wax is afraid of heights, but it won't be safe to do that without her standing by the ladder.)
- I've also got two cement chimney walls downstairs that have a lot of old wallpaper on them and they probably need to be skimcoated with new plaster too, since it turns out that old paper wallpaper does not willingly part from a low-quality cement wall, and when it does it tends to take chunks of the cement with it.
- painting and stripping out an old sheet vinyl floor in the unconditioned-but-enclosed portico, which will tentatively be in the spring, and THEN the interior remodeling should be done, I think?
It's been a foggy few days, dim and white and around 6-7°C (43-45 F) outside. That makes it annoying getting out of bed in the morning, but it's not actually too bad inside; it's 16°-17° (61-63) on our side of the house all the time. The problem is that the sensor that the geothermal heat pump uses to heat the radiators is on the other side of the house, which is significantly warmer than this side even though we turned most of the radiators there almost all the way down. If we adjust the settings on the water heater to warm this side, it'll cook the tenant, so we can't really do much there. She's still away writing because she has a deadline (scholarly non-fiction) and her desk here is inaccessible under boxes of stuff.
