HVAC,
Holes, Vacuuming the dust from all those holes, All those damn holes, Calling someone to fix all those damn holes.
I think there is a theme here. We are beginning to refer to the guys as the gods of Destruction. It turns out "minimally invasive" means that they don't strip the walls back to the studs. For some silly reason we thought "a few holes" didn't include ripping two foot wide channels up walls and into ceilings (and cross your fingers , not yet across any ceilings).
To be fair they figured we had balloon construction which is common with this vintage but low and behold we had much sturdier construction. Good in general, bad for running forced air ducting. ANd they would have had to rip into a lot of the same places to get to the water lines that were broken so...It's still a lot of ravage for the poor old house. It's also going to be a LOT of repair work after the fact.
I was pretty resigned to the fact that the house was going to be a construction site till all the work was done, so while it's a bit more than I expected it is in the general ball park. Aislinn however missed the first round when the plumbers were chopping holes (smaller and MUCH fewer) so I think she is kind of in shock right now. Until you go through it it's hard to comprehend the shear volume of dust and that it gets EVERYWHERE. Till they are done and we can really vacuum this dust will be in everything we own and eat.
To a lesser extent it will happen again when we close up all the holes.
But then we will be able to actually start unpacking!
On an up note the deck is almost back together.
And Monty found a new playmate (appropriately named for the houses condition "Dusty").
The electrical is almost done with the first phase.
Bottled yesterday while the power was off, so were stocking up!
so long from the BigD
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