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shannon_aThank goodness, our week of household chaos is now over.
The toughest part of it was being locked up in my office, with two cats, while simultaneously being available for our shower-retiling guy.
That's in part because the cats were terrible. Almost every day at least one of them was constantly wanting out. I think that on Tuesday they were mostly content, hanging out on the loveseat, but then on Wednesday they spent two or three hours begging at the door and fighting each other, and on Friday Lucy spent the whole day telling me she was in horrible distress and trying to dart out the door every time it was open.
But, purpose served: our tile is now all in place and grouted. It looks nice. The trim that K. was able to pick out looks particularly good. We had a bit of an issue with a weird angle in one corner, where the tile wasn't straight. Our tiler said this is due to the framing. Our previous tile was not notably angled there, but on the other hand, we know the back of the house has shifted in the last five years. End result: he was able to fix about half of the angling with some work, and the other half is a lot less notable with the grout in. So, yay.
We're not actually done. He needs to come back to apply one more coat of paint to some of the areas he had to repaint following the destruction and reconstruction of the tile surfaces. And he still needs to put the sliding glass doors back in. But he thinks he'll be done by noon on Monday. So my wake/sleep/shower schedule is still off. But not for long. Nothing is for long at this point.
And, he was able to clear much of construction stuff out on Friday. The back of our house is almost back to normal (other than a tub full of tools). And that clutter and chaos was as draining as the scheduling and the cat-locking, in its own way.
So, hopefully, we now have a leak-proof downstairs shower, like we did before we had T. renovate it all five years ago. And that was one of the top things that really needed to be done before we move. (There are still a few others like replacing our back door and repainting the house exterior, and if we decide to rent we should probably replace the dishwasher too, which apparently requires some reconfiguration of how it's connected. But for the moment: done, or close enough.)
The toughest part of it was being locked up in my office, with two cats, while simultaneously being available for our shower-retiling guy.
That's in part because the cats were terrible. Almost every day at least one of them was constantly wanting out. I think that on Tuesday they were mostly content, hanging out on the loveseat, but then on Wednesday they spent two or three hours begging at the door and fighting each other, and on Friday Lucy spent the whole day telling me she was in horrible distress and trying to dart out the door every time it was open.
But, purpose served: our tile is now all in place and grouted. It looks nice. The trim that K. was able to pick out looks particularly good. We had a bit of an issue with a weird angle in one corner, where the tile wasn't straight. Our tiler said this is due to the framing. Our previous tile was not notably angled there, but on the other hand, we know the back of the house has shifted in the last five years. End result: he was able to fix about half of the angling with some work, and the other half is a lot less notable with the grout in. So, yay.
We're not actually done. He needs to come back to apply one more coat of paint to some of the areas he had to repaint following the destruction and reconstruction of the tile surfaces. And he still needs to put the sliding glass doors back in. But he thinks he'll be done by noon on Monday. So my wake/sleep/shower schedule is still off. But not for long. Nothing is for long at this point.
And, he was able to clear much of construction stuff out on Friday. The back of our house is almost back to normal (other than a tub full of tools). And that clutter and chaos was as draining as the scheduling and the cat-locking, in its own way.
So, hopefully, we now have a leak-proof downstairs shower, like we did before we had T. renovate it all five years ago. And that was one of the top things that really needed to be done before we move. (There are still a few others like replacing our back door and repainting the house exterior, and if we decide to rent we should probably replace the dishwasher too, which apparently requires some reconfiguration of how it's connected. But for the moment: done, or close enough.)