Pardon the Clutter

As you can see from the pictures, Marilyn is hard at work in her nearly completed kitchen.

Wednesday we had the plumbers show up. In their favor, they were 20 minutes early, had the sink functional and the water and drain run to the dishwasher within an hour and a quarter.

We had been told they would install the drain and fixtures in the sink, install the dishwasher, and get the water to the fridge for the ice maker and water in the door.

What we got was a functioning sink, a dishwasher stuck in its home with water and a drain, and "you'll have to get an electrician here to finish the hookup. Oh, there was also the "We'll have to go under the house to get water to the fridge. That will have to be a separate call."

Why does nobody seem to want to do what needs to be done to keep their customers happy?

At any rate, I said, "Electrician? We don' need no steenking electician!" and grabbed a multi-meter, found the correct circuit breaker for the dishwasher, and had power to it in 5 minutes. I then spent the next hour finding all the sound suppression stuff the plumbers had left in the box, installing it and getting the thing centered in the hole and anchored down. It's truly amazing how many dishes appeared out of nowhere begging to be washed.

It's slowly coming together. Friday saw the arrival of the glass shelves for the glass fronted cabinets. As soon as the end cabinets (you remember, the ones that have been ordered 3 times) are delivered, Steve the cabinet guy can return and finish up. It will be great to have the cornice and bottom moldings on the cabinets. Then all we will need is the plumber to come back and hook up the water to the fridge.

It's projects like this that make the pyramids so awe inspiring. They're a lot bigger and were seemingly done a lot quicker. Of course, the customer on that project had the option of feeding the contractors to the jackals if they didn't meet his expectations.


Today, we're planning to meet Jon, Missy, and Violet for breakfast at Cracker Barrel in Athens, then go see the "new" house. I'll post some pictures later.

Make it a great day.