Good news for me, the electric box in the laundry room won't need to be moved, and only the cable holes need readjustment. When I planned this out, I completely forgot about the dryer venting. It will go in the wall and through the attic now, but it's a shame because one of my only projects this summer was to install a pretty, flush vent in the stucco-drywalled sun porch window currently hidden by the dryer. But now I can reinstall a window there.
I'm still waiting for the crawl space to dry out enough so it's not sludgy and slippery to work under there on my knees. We thought about pumps and drain pipes but a low-tech solution occurred to me- why not raise the crawl space/swimming pool vent openings? Right now they are at ground level and make an excellent drain for storm water overflow. The crawl space bottom is 2-3 feet lower than the yard level. That might sound pretty stupid, but it seems to be the result of building up the yard with infill to encourage quicker draining. This explains why our 1928 driveway ribbons are 6" below the topsoil. And as this is Florida and we live on infill creek bed, maybe parts of the yard did indeed sink sometime and need refilling.
I can't say how many times we thought about moving during this week-long storm. But, improvements must be made so we're not flipping them onto a buyer as it happened to us. It would be super if those improvements don't include me trying to suck the end of the garden hose to make a crawl space siphon.
Jason will love this
I have the day off (government contract-employee). I've accomplished nothing on the three-day weekend and desparately wanted to. So much so that I couldn't relax, knowing all these things are stalling. So while I can't knock out a wall, I can knock out a box. I took this thing out, in an hour :45.
Now when Jason gets home, I'll be sure to tell him that mice will be coming through the wire hole until I get around to moving the box 4" to the right and 1" higher. The plot is to switch the water heater with the stacked washer/dryer, enabling us to use the back door more easily. Oh, he's home now!
Now when Jason gets home, I'll be sure to tell him that mice will be coming through the wire hole until I get around to moving the box 4" to the right and 1" higher. The plot is to switch the water heater with the stacked washer/dryer, enabling us to use the back door more easily. Oh, he's home now!
Isle Collins, in the strait of Murray No-Hill
While I'm just itching to start the kitchen renovation by knocking out a false wall in the kitchen, I've promised myself not to do it until I have enough money to fix whatever I discover behind it. So that will wait indefinitely while our new (to us) appliances hang in my mom's laundry room. Then I'll build a couple of new cabinets, and am ordering all the doors from Rockler because I don't want to make them.
In the meantime, we got some rain this week. Maybe this is why our house is higher than the ones around us. Everyone else still had some yard left. The water was within a foot of the joists in the crawlspace. When the water got pretty high that night, some people in a dinghy hit the chimney wall on their way to the cars stranded in the picture below.
The microwave circuit breaker kept flipping that night. Reviewing my electric notes today, I saw the cable to that outlet runs under the house instead of through the attic like the rest of the runs. Everything else is fine, though my car has been wedged in a mud rut since Tuesday, as nothing is really dry yet. Most of the yard mulch is still hanging around, too. Mostly, this has taught me that when we build the shed, it needs to be at least 1' off the ground.
In the meantime, we got some rain this week. Maybe this is why our house is higher than the ones around us. Everyone else still had some yard left. The water was within a foot of the joists in the crawlspace. When the water got pretty high that night, some people in a dinghy hit the chimney wall on their way to the cars stranded in the picture below.
The microwave circuit breaker kept flipping that night. Reviewing my electric notes today, I saw the cable to that outlet runs under the house instead of through the attic like the rest of the runs. Everything else is fine, though my car has been wedged in a mud rut since Tuesday, as nothing is really dry yet. Most of the yard mulch is still hanging around, too. Mostly, this has taught me that when we build the shed, it needs to be at least 1' off the ground.
Kinda Like Twin Peaks? The ugly details
Our neighbor across the street was found dead on his front porch this morning. Weird stuff has been happening there for several weeks. J called the non-emergency # at 5 AM last week on a very large white woman pacing the street in front of the neighbor's house and yelling, "Black Willy! Black Willy!" Eventually, a man whom we guess she was referring to emerged from the house. I don't think either of them lived there but we had seen her peeling out of the driveway several times in the neighbor's truck. I thought he was her dad.
We have met all the neighbors, wacky or not, renters and owners, and this guy seemed subdued and nice, and walked his cute little black dog 5-6 times a day in the park. He was a skinny man in his 50s and we think he was dealing or doing, or at least had a medical reason to be growing. Foil has covered one of their windows since we moved in, and we don't live in a region where heat loss is a problem.
Another house for sale? That would make it all 6 houses surrounding us. Maybe someone will buy all of them up and offer us a pile of money too, so they can build a mega-mansion or an apartment complex. It really is amazing.
We have met all the neighbors, wacky or not, renters and owners, and this guy seemed subdued and nice, and walked his cute little black dog 5-6 times a day in the park. He was a skinny man in his 50s and we think he was dealing or doing, or at least had a medical reason to be growing. Foil has covered one of their windows since we moved in, and we don't live in a region where heat loss is a problem.
Another house for sale? That would make it all 6 houses surrounding us. Maybe someone will buy all of them up and offer us a pile of money too, so they can build a mega-mansion or an apartment complex. It really is amazing.
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