We went to the house Tuesday night after supper and hooked up...or I should say tried to hook up the satellite receivers in the living room. We had wire problems, again. We're not sure if it's the connectors we're using, or if it's the way we've connected the connectors, or what, but it was not a good night at the house for general conversation. Hopefully we'll have better luck when we go out there on Wednesday night.
On top of that, the plumber that is hooking all of the water and plumbing up, will not hook up the hot water take to the desuperheater in the geothermal unit. So now we have to find a licensed plumber to hook it up for us, because the "plumber is old and doesn't want to do anything new" - Lyle's words. The only thing that the plumber did on Tuesday, that we noticed, was stand the base of the pedestal sink up in the bathroom. That's all. So we still have no hot water, and there is only four more days until the big move. Ryan has called Don the Geothermal Guy to see if he can recommend anyone who will simply run a pipe from the hot water tank to the desuperheater and then from the desuperheater to the hot water tank. That is ALL this guy will not do. Hopefully Lyle can convince the guy to do it, and if not, hopefully Don can recommend someone to do it that won't charge us a whole pile of money.
Glen the Finisher was there on Tuesday, and I'm happy to report that he did do a lot of work. He cut all of the baseboards for the walls and placed them where they are to go. The upstairs ones he actually nailed on, and he also hung all of the doors and installed all of the shelves and rods in the closets throughout the house and installed the shelves in the linen closet and in the kitchen pantry. It took about three trips to the basement before we realized that Glen had also installed the hand railing leading to the basement. Talk about not paying much attention.
Someone also cleaned up the basement and cleaned up the garage, and did a wonderful job. The windows in the basement and on the main floor were also cleaned, and they look very nice. Hopefully they do more cleaning on Wednesday, since on Thursday, Ryan, Dad and I have all taken the day off to move the stuff that we have stored at Mom & Dad's into the house. We'll probably also move some of the stuff that we have at Ryan's Mom's place, just so that we can get a bit of a jump on that, so that we don't tie up the whole day on Saturday for those whose help we have enlisted to move.
Before the countertops were installed, I had asked Ryan to move a cupboard door that they had put into the cupboard when they were adding some drywall in the kitchen to build something out that they didn't do before the cupboards were installed. I can't remember why, but Ryan didn't do it, and I just left it in there as well. I think I just wanted to see what the drawer looked like when it was installed. Anyway, we get to the house Tuesday night, and we're looking at the pantry door, and Ryan says "Oh ya, that's what else I found out from Lyle...". I asked him what he was talking about, and he points to that door I wanted him to move and says "Um, ya. That door there is stuck in there and won't come out". I don't know who's fault that was, whether it was the guy installing the drywall who put the door in there to begin with, or if it was the counter top guys who didn't move it before they installed the counter top, but either way, it's kinda funny. But not really. When the cabinet guy comes out to adjust the other doors so they aren't crooked, he'll have to figure out a way to get that door out of there without wrecking it. I tried, and couldn't, which means that it must be next to impossible to get it out without cutting something...
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