Frec Central

Frec Central is moving on!

Frec is getting married! Excellent!

What, no work today?

Here it is 2 days before I arrive and no more work has been done?
Santa will have to speak to his elves sternly. ;-)

I think my home page is set for disappearing tomorrow.
If you want to see it this may be your last chance.
Here is the URL:

http://users.adelphia.net/~fredrc/

My new toilet ???

So I bet my new toilet is not like the one I wanted below.

My helper

This is Jan, without whom my move would be at least a month away.

at least we have a toilet now

We just have to keep Erik away from it with his golf balls....

Ready by Tuesday!?!

My help here

I have a picture of the person who did all the work here as to packing up my "stuff" in preparation for the movers coming on Monday and I wanted to post it for all to see. But ignorant me, I cannot figure out how to do that.

Nevermind! After a lot of trial and error I finally got Jan's picture posted.

Electrical Box (breaker box) map

Scott mapped out the outlets and lights in the house. He needs to update with a couple we found yesterday, but here's the first pass:

I think we'll adhere this to the inside of the panel door? Not sure. Will have to check with Scott.

Time to play: What the Heck Is That?!

2311 is a veritable treasure trove of interesting and sometimes unidentifiable items.

That's why we like to play "What the Heck Is That?!" since it's a game that can last for a good long while.

Take a look at today's mystery object and then see if you can guess what it is, or, what it MIGHT have been at some point in its existence...Then, scroll down for a close up and the answer. Don't forget to click on the picture to see a larger image of it:

If you guessed rotten insulation, you guessed wrong.

If you guessed dead, electrocuted, nearly skeletalized mouse, then you are today's winner!! Scott found this poor wanderer while checking out the electrical box under the kitchen counter. If you look closely, you can notice his little tail sticking straight up in the air!!!

Painting may not be on schedule --

But it's on the walls!! at least in the living room.

Suzy made some major headway getting the room finished. Now it just needs a little touch up in places. We'll be able to start on the subfloor tomorrow.

Good job, Sue! (geez, i don't know how I'm gonna pay all these people! Hope they consider *chocolate* a form of currency.)

Wanna see a corner cabinet lazy-susan disappear?

The good news is that now we've solved the mystery of the leaking water and the puddles in front of the cabinets -- It seems the previous owner just yanked out the dishwasher and left the ends of anything connected to it to hang. We crimped up the copper tube, but we couldn't find the drain tube and figured "eh" until we pulled the cabinets out and saw that the drain tube was connected to the sink in some fashion so every time we used it to clean our brushes, etc, water just trickled merrily out the drain tube!! Buttheadz...

More good news. We found where the original oven was, AND it's vent hole...we also discovered that maybe the Mrs. was a little over-zealous at the stove. Looks like the ceiling caught some good flames at one point!

Scott and Dan map out the breaker box.
Either that, or they're making plans or karaoke later - -

Rain?! AGAIN???!!!!!

Well, it's pooring like a mo-fo out today. I'm so disappointed. Plus, I've had so many errands to run today, I haven't been able to really do anything at Frec Central.

I DID manage to break one of Scott's skill saws, or whatever they're called.

I also met with the carpet and vinyl flooring guy. He took measurements and gave me prices.

$800+ change for the vinyl in the bathroom and the kitchen and $2,100 for the carpet in the den and living room.

They'll want a 50% deposit tomorrow to order and it will take two weeks from Monday to come in.

That will give us a fairly good window to finish fixing the bathroom floor and laying the living room sub-floor.

Oh, the city of Shively picked up your trash yesterday!! Well, all except for that garbage-can-full that got knocked over in the winds and ended up spreading itself all over the front yard, part of the back yard and up against our neighbors who use the front yard as their driveway.

But I got that all picked up. A little soggy, but eh...!!!

I hope to get Scott over there tonight so we can finish up removing the kitchen cabinets.

Suzy and Mark are supposed to drop in tomorrow and get the bathroom drywalling done.

Latest Update (with pics)

Although, I'm too sleepy to narrate them. I'll post commentary tomorrow. I will say this, you'll see a couple shots of Erik the Red havin fun painting your living room wall. So looks like Janet (who laid down all the primer) and Erick the Evil will be the responsible parties for any living room painting issues!!

Also, I have a few shots of the boiler/hot water tank. The red tag that LG&E flagged the setup with is dated in July of 1996. Which means there has been an untended gas lea k there for HOW many years!?

Also, you may have to live with the fireplace insert. I discovered as I was cleaning it up that a huge brick from the ceiling of the chimney (do chimneys have ceilings?!) has sort of collapsed toward the cast iron fire place. I took a shot of it from both sides of the fireplace insert looking into the fireplace.

You will see where the plywood and drywall was delivered. Hopefully tomorrow we can show you what that looks like in your new bathroom!!

G'night. I'm bushed...

Plumber George and his helper-buddy Travis putting in the 60" shower with seat.

Our inspiration wall:

5 days and counting

The movers will be here at 8:00 am Monday. I hope to be able to leave about 9:00 am and spend the night in Columbia, MO. That should put me into Louisville about 4:00 pm local time on Tuesday. So WORK, WORK, WORK! ;-)
Frec

Some more from Sat/Sun

Okay, I lied. I can't go to sleep until I check this box off. So here are the rest:

We figured out to put up a dust barrier on Sunday. The bathroom is now a tabula rosa (blank slate), with the exception of removing the tub.

Check out Rick's ingenious and talented electrical work on that lighting fixture!

Be sure to check these out up close (click on image for larger view). These show what we ran into with the bathroom floor. We still don't have a solution, but we're working on it.