I hope the floor plan below is some help to those of you not familiar with our house.
We got a good bit of work done last weekend. The master bath floor went a lot faster than I had expected. We've finally gotten all the bugs worked out of the compressor and nail gun, that helped a lot. I say "bugs" but overcoming our own ignorance was the real challenge.
We couldn't get the compressor to power up, it kept popping the breaker. The problem was that our extension cord was too long and to small of a gauge to pull enough power for the compressor. My father-in-law was kind enough to run huge-gauge wire from the temporary pole to the Queen. Our compressor problem was then solved. Then we ran out of nails. That sounds easy enough to remedy, doesn't it?
The nail gun is borrowed, so my wife and I are not too familiar with it. The nails we bought were the wrong brand. Even though the nails were the right size (in theory) they wouldn't work with the nail-gun we have. They'd jam the gun every time you pulled the trigger. So back to Lowe's for the RIGHT nails. It's the stupid stuff that slows you down.
Our death-dance with Terminix has continued though I think that it may be over now. The collection agency has been calling us up until last week even though we paid it off five weeks ago. We tried calling Terminix in Russellville but they wouldn't talk to us. So, we called the Regional Manager. That pretty well took care of it. In a week or so we should know for sure. The whole episode was aggravating and ridiculous. It is almost a shame that it got resolved though; I was almost looking forward to getting our lawyer to sue them.
We got a good bit of work done last weekend. The master bath floor went a lot faster than I had expected. We've finally gotten all the bugs worked out of the compressor and nail gun, that helped a lot. I say "bugs" but overcoming our own ignorance was the real challenge.
We couldn't get the compressor to power up, it kept popping the breaker. The problem was that our extension cord was too long and to small of a gauge to pull enough power for the compressor. My father-in-law was kind enough to run huge-gauge wire from the temporary pole to the Queen. Our compressor problem was then solved. Then we ran out of nails. That sounds easy enough to remedy, doesn't it?
The nail gun is borrowed, so my wife and I are not too familiar with it. The nails we bought were the wrong brand. Even though the nails were the right size (in theory) they wouldn't work with the nail-gun we have. They'd jam the gun every time you pulled the trigger. So back to Lowe's for the RIGHT nails. It's the stupid stuff that slows you down.
Our death-dance with Terminix has continued though I think that it may be over now. The collection agency has been calling us up until last week even though we paid it off five weeks ago. We tried calling Terminix in Russellville but they wouldn't talk to us. So, we called the Regional Manager. That pretty well took care of it. In a week or so we should know for sure. The whole episode was aggravating and ridiculous. It is almost a shame that it got resolved though; I was almost looking forward to getting our lawyer to sue them.
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