Another friend of ours is a plumber and has been trying to make it over for the last couple weeks. We needed to have the water hooked up to the hot water heater and the washer/dryer unit connected to the water lines. Our plumber friend was able to make it over last Tuesday and get those two things hooked up.
Moving forward...but slowly...it seems...like our....big plans....are.....taking.....a......really.......long.......time........
Meanwhile in other news: I got locked out of our tiny house...with my purse inside.
I had my keys but see, well, the door knob on the back door broke so that wasn't going to work. Our front door has been out of commission since the first rain because the trim swelled up with the water. I was kind of out of options at this point.
We were planning on sanding down the trim on the front door and repainting it with an oil based paint it anyway: I guess there's no time like the present.
I sent my son in search of a tool to scrape with and he came up with a tool from his toolbox for fixing brick work? Whatever it is, it is metal and thin and worked great. I scrapped away at the trim on the front door and my wonderful husband came over on his lunch to help me muscle the door open.
Unfortunately once it was open, I couldn't close it to lock it until I worked on it. I headed to Lowe's and purchased a new handle for the back door and figured, "Why not pick up a tester color for the door" (we want to repaint them). Thankfully, I also remembered while I was at Lowes that we have a oil-based white paint already so I didn't pick that up.
Unfortunately once it was open, I couldn't close it to lock it until I worked on it. I headed to Lowe's and purchased a new handle for the back door and figured, "Why not pick up a tester color for the door" (we want to repaint them). Thankfully, I also remembered while I was at Lowes that we have a oil-based white paint already so I didn't pick that up.
Back at the tiny house I sanded the trim down and painted it with the oil based white paint. Then I painted the whole front door with the tester color I bought.
THEN I realized, "wait I can't shut the door if the trim is still wet" and "I never did check to see if the door would shut BEFORE I painted it". BIG mistake. Even if the paint wasn't wet (which it still was 5 hours after I painted it), we realized that the door would not shut.
The trim had swollen to much.
It was dark by the time I used paint thinner to remove the paint; sand down the trim; sand down the edge of the door that had gummy trim residue on it; carve out more space for metal door lock plate thing; sand down the trim again - it took awhile; and finally shut and lock my door.
Don't mess with a woman carving her house with a knife.
The area we live in is not incorporated by the city and we're pretty sure that is because the city police do not want to be called multiple times a night. I was switching from sanding to carving when some stranger guy from the road asks me when our house is going to be finished.
As I attacked my house with a large knife I replied, "It'll be done a lot sooner if this knife would cut better."
The stranger didn't stay around.
Oh and the new door color?? Not good. I may or may not post a picture its that bad.
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