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cimoreneThe sick boss plumber talked to Wax yesterday and he said that he was out sick all last week and is now trying to catch back up, and said that he might get to our house this Thursday. That's tentative and reliant on how long other things take though, and also he sounded TERRIBLE, causing Wax to doubt how recovered he really is. (Of course he could just still sound terrible with a cold or a flu). One can hope, but I'm attempting to expect that our house will be like this forever in order to experience only positive surprised going forward, as I mentioned before.
Wax has today and tomorrow off (no special reason, her schedule is always stupid because it's randomly generated by a bad AI) followed by NINE days straight of working (she worked last Saturday and Sunday too), so if the plumber does come Thursday, we won't be able to close up the wall between our side and the tenant's side as promptly as we'd like to, but this does give us two days to do Carpentry and try to build our new wardrobe.
I posted before about the wall outside our bedroom door - there's an alcove next to the building's central chimney wall which contained an extremely suspect-looking cobbled-together kitchenette at about knee height right next to our bedroom door, at the end of the second upstairs room, like so:
You have to walk THROUGH the spare room to get from our bedroom to the stairs and the upstairs bathroom, so it isn't a useful second bedroom because it can't offer real privacy. Both the walls are lined with bookcases full of books, and there's a row of bookcase sticking out into the room to partially screen it from our bedroom door, creating a sort-of hallway from the kitchenette end. I originally intended it to be an art and craft room where there would be room for painting and sewing, but thanks to covid-19 it's now Wax's work from home office.
The area that's a kitchenette in the drawing up there is going to be our closet because both of the walls adjoining what was kitchenette are fucked up and easier to cover than repair (and they're cement walls). So we want to fill that little rectangle with closet space, and the space is bigger than the standard wardrobes you can buy already made, so we bought some lumber and we're basically building some big wooden bookshelves (loosely based on these plans by diy carpentry guru Ana White) that exactly fill the space which will then just be anchored to the wall and floor and then clad in paneling from the inside and fitted with doors. The space is more than 80 cm deep while the standard closet depth is 60 cm (and it can be as little as 40 or 50 in some systems), so the shelves and closet rods will be mounted in the back half of it. So far we've (Wax has, because I'm not good at putting in screws and nails when you need force and pressure to make them go straight) built the "ladders" that support the shelves but we have a lot left to occupy us the next two days.
We DID buy firewood last night, but we should've bought a big package of those long-burning compressed sawdust logs because using dried birch means we have to keep going and checking the stove. And it's even colder today than yesterday.
Wax has today and tomorrow off (no special reason, her schedule is always stupid because it's randomly generated by a bad AI) followed by NINE days straight of working (she worked last Saturday and Sunday too), so if the plumber does come Thursday, we won't be able to close up the wall between our side and the tenant's side as promptly as we'd like to, but this does give us two days to do Carpentry and try to build our new wardrobe.
I posted before about the wall outside our bedroom door - there's an alcove next to the building's central chimney wall which contained an extremely suspect-looking cobbled-together kitchenette at about knee height right next to our bedroom door, at the end of the second upstairs room, like so:
You have to walk THROUGH the spare room to get from our bedroom to the stairs and the upstairs bathroom, so it isn't a useful second bedroom because it can't offer real privacy. Both the walls are lined with bookcases full of books, and there's a row of bookcase sticking out into the room to partially screen it from our bedroom door, creating a sort-of hallway from the kitchenette end. I originally intended it to be an art and craft room where there would be room for painting and sewing, but thanks to covid-19 it's now Wax's work from home office.
The area that's a kitchenette in the drawing up there is going to be our closet because both of the walls adjoining what was kitchenette are fucked up and easier to cover than repair (and they're cement walls). So we want to fill that little rectangle with closet space, and the space is bigger than the standard wardrobes you can buy already made, so we bought some lumber and we're basically building some big wooden bookshelves (loosely based on these plans by diy carpentry guru Ana White) that exactly fill the space which will then just be anchored to the wall and floor and then clad in paneling from the inside and fitted with doors. The space is more than 80 cm deep while the standard closet depth is 60 cm (and it can be as little as 40 or 50 in some systems), so the shelves and closet rods will be mounted in the back half of it. So far we've (Wax has, because I'm not good at putting in screws and nails when you need force and pressure to make them go straight) built the "ladders" that support the shelves but we have a lot left to occupy us the next two days.
We DID buy firewood last night, but we should've bought a big package of those long-burning compressed sawdust logs because using dried birch means we have to keep going and checking the stove. And it's even colder today than yesterday.
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Date: 10 Nov 2020 12:21 pm (UTC)Thank you for the update.
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