and Sprinkles on Top

of Long Days and Quiet Nights

Posted on 15. Jan, 2009 by Deb in Just.....Me

If you follow me on Twitter, you know that I have had a bit of an adventure today in home maintenance / home repair stuff.

A couple of days ago, I got a brand new toilet in the front bathroom to deal with a minute crack in the tank which had been dripping water onto the floor. If you didn’t know, water travels on concrete slab.  In this case, it traveled into the next room, my bedroom.  Fortunately, I had two bookcases I had purchased at Target, which were made of particle board.  It sucked up most of the water, and when we moved them today, they fell apart.  The sheet rock, however, also sucked up a bit of water.  enough to cause mold to form just a little…about six inches upward, and about seven feet long.

Since I have lived the bulk of the past year out of a suitcase (first Oklahoma, then DC), I have no clue how long the problem existed.

After the insurance adjuster left, and assured me that it was in no way, shape or form covered, I then received visits from a restoration company and the measuring dude from the carpet company.  The restoration guys spent two or three hours at the house, cutting out sheet rock, cutting out carpet and pad, spraying a disinfectant, and then leaving behind two huge fans and a huge filter-thing.  White noise is one thing, but this isn’t white noise.  It’s LOUD and constant.  They have to run anywhere from one to three days, until everything is completely dry.  After two hours of it, I was ready to just get out of the house.

But I know that it could be worse.

After the cleanup part, then will come the rebuilding part.  I will need to get sheet rock repaired and the room repainted, replace carpet, etc, etc.

Kid had already planned on spending the long weekend at a friends, and I was planning on a quick trip to El Paso on Saturday night to visit with a friend.   That left, however, tonight and tomorrow night.  I tried the kids rooms and the living room, but the noise was constant. And to be honest, I just didn’t feel like suffering through the noise.  So, I went online to one of my favorite hotel chains and found a room for the next couple of nights.  This is a chain that is very pet friendly – in that there is no charge for pets and no limit on size.   The bonus of living out of  suitcase is I am top tiered on all the hotel chains I frequent, and when we checked in for the smallest room, we were upgraded to a larger room.

Oh.  And another thing.

The TV that was purchased last year, but lost consistent sound?  But I had purchased the extended warranty plan?  Well, on December 26th, Best Buy came out to look at it.  A few days later, they had to come back out because internal rules had changed and an additional piece of information was needed off the board.  The new sound board was finally ordered.  Today they called to tell me they didn’t know when the part would be in, so they were giving me an exchange number.  The upside is that I will get a replacement TV.  The downside is that I have to unhook the TV and take it TO Best Buy.  That is just going to  have to happen next week.

I did miss my workout today.  I plan to go to the hotel workout room in the morning.

tonight, I need to take advantage of the QUIET and get some rest.  Greta is sacked out next to me, so it’s time to move from this sofa to the comfy looking bed.  This has been a really long day.

Sweet dreams….