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cimoreneOur tenant spent her first night here in her wing last night!
The wall is not FINISHED being walled up, but it is now opaque; the particle board is on it from her side, it just needs to be painted, and our side still needs the surface finished (and some sound isolation I believe, because right now it's like being right on the other side of a closed door from her kitchen and the sound is extremely clear). She finished her writings and has made some unpacking progress, as we saw through the window; and I finished cleaning out the bathroom and kitchen and scrubbing them the other day.
The only thing really remaining, besides going over there to paint the walled-up door and hang the shelves in the alcove, is that Sir Douglas Jones, our giant monstera plant, is still trapped behind stacks of boxes in the corner of her office: we forgot to move him out before the furniture movers arrived and he's too fragile to easily maneuver around those things because giant monsteras are big climbing vines, and he has a bunch of big leaf stalks that could get hurt or even broken if bumped on things, which are currently supported by a sisal macrame trellis hanging on the wall behind him. So. Gotta rescue Dougie soon.
(Pictures of Dougie from before the move)
On our side, we've got to buy some sound isolation materials and probably a bit more lumber to finish up our side of the wall, because apparently we were BOTH half asleep when we planned it and ordered every single piece of lumber and both the particle board pieces the wrong sizes. The particle board bits are just basically sized to the opening and Wax is able to fix them - they're each less than a cm off - but the lumber was a real pain in the butt for her, and we probably need a bunch more of it to make the thing match the original plan, which is that it will close the opening flush with the wall on our side.
After today, poor Wax still has two more days to work before she can rest (and she's done seven in a row already). She didn't make any building progress last night, but we went to pick up a block plane and a hack saw and a closet rod, and I managed to put the toekicks under the kitchen cabinets without help (I would highly recommend not using the plastic Ikea toekicks if anybody was ever tempted: wood or mdf are way easier to cut and work: just use them, order them cut to size Ãf necessary! I'm extremely kicking myself about this and one of the toekicks is actually sitting at like a 40° angle??? right now but it's so hard to see that we've just left it).
Also I ordered cat food, bunny kibble* (I remembered to ask Wax to order it), flannel flat sheets from England (because... you can buy flannel duvet covers but not flannel flat/fitted sheets in Finland... it's bizarre... and our mattress is wider than any flannel by the yard I could find domestically), and face serum in the last two days as well as the tools that we picked up last night, so I feel very accomplished.
The wall is not FINISHED being walled up, but it is now opaque; the particle board is on it from her side, it just needs to be painted, and our side still needs the surface finished (and some sound isolation I believe, because right now it's like being right on the other side of a closed door from her kitchen and the sound is extremely clear). She finished her writings and has made some unpacking progress, as we saw through the window; and I finished cleaning out the bathroom and kitchen and scrubbing them the other day.
The only thing really remaining, besides going over there to paint the walled-up door and hang the shelves in the alcove, is that Sir Douglas Jones, our giant monstera plant, is still trapped behind stacks of boxes in the corner of her office: we forgot to move him out before the furniture movers arrived and he's too fragile to easily maneuver around those things because giant monsteras are big climbing vines, and he has a bunch of big leaf stalks that could get hurt or even broken if bumped on things, which are currently supported by a sisal macrame trellis hanging on the wall behind him. So. Gotta rescue Dougie soon.
(Pictures of Dougie from before the move)On our side, we've got to buy some sound isolation materials and probably a bit more lumber to finish up our side of the wall, because apparently we were BOTH half asleep when we planned it and ordered every single piece of lumber and both the particle board pieces the wrong sizes. The particle board bits are just basically sized to the opening and Wax is able to fix them - they're each less than a cm off - but the lumber was a real pain in the butt for her, and we probably need a bunch more of it to make the thing match the original plan, which is that it will close the opening flush with the wall on our side.
After today, poor Wax still has two more days to work before she can rest (and she's done seven in a row already). She didn't make any building progress last night, but we went to pick up a block plane and a hack saw and a closet rod, and I managed to put the toekicks under the kitchen cabinets without help (I would highly recommend not using the plastic Ikea toekicks if anybody was ever tempted: wood or mdf are way easier to cut and work: just use them, order them cut to size Ãf necessary! I'm extremely kicking myself about this and one of the toekicks is actually sitting at like a 40° angle??? right now but it's so hard to see that we've just left it).
Also I ordered cat food, bunny kibble* (I remembered to ask Wax to order it), flannel flat sheets from England (because... you can buy flannel duvet covers but not flannel flat/fitted sheets in Finland... it's bizarre... and our mattress is wider than any flannel by the yard I could find domestically), and face serum in the last two days as well as the tools that we picked up last night, so I feel very accomplished.
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Date: 18 Nov 2020 01:06 pm (UTC)Am cheering you on.
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