FRUSTRATION

some days there seems to be very little progress when renovating a house ... today is one of those days ... the happy helpers came over bearing gifts of some much needed building supplies and just as they were getting started they realized that they forgot a few things ... important things that need to be done before moving onto the new step in the basement ... they wanted to work on leveling the floor in the bathroom so the shower base will be flat ... which definitely needs to be done because from the bathroom wall to where the edge of the base will sit the floor has a inch difference in height from beginning to end!

well in order to do that the floor leveling stuff had to be bought (which j didn't have time to do this week because he has been crazy busy with work), also plumbing needed to be done so the tools had to picked up and rented for the weekend ... and if your gonna do a little plumbing and go to all the trouble to rent the tool well you might as well complete all the finishing plumbing jobs at the same time ... so that meant picking up extra water lines to move the front tap and deciding on a shower handle and shower head for the bathroom ...

that's all fine however nothing frustrates n more than having to run house errands in saturday traffic ... just by picking a weekend to drive around you automatically add at least an hour travel time to the job ... oh and add in that this isn't getting started until 1:00 pm because j and n had to parlons francais dans la matin ... well you get the picture

well n is unhappy to report that it took us a round trip of 3 hours just to pick up the tools and needed supplies ... the most disappointing part was finding the handle for the shower ...

most times n is happy to live in this particular city but there are certain times that this city doesn't feel so city it actually feels more like a small hillbilly town ... j and n drove to all 3 major hardware suppliers looking for the goods for the shower ... all we could find was tacky overpriced ugly crap and oh all of them came with a tub faucet which we don't need ... doesn't anybody make attractive stuff?

well we were about to give up because if the 3 major home improvement players can't get it together to supply this stuff who will? ... and then on our drive home we found a little bath specialty store that had the perfect handle and shower head ... so it wasn't a total waste ... it was just a little long to get a few key pieces

cheers ~n

update ... just a tad disappointed because it took so long driving around yesterday j and his happy helpers weren't able to install the new basement windows which totally would have been awesome but oh well i guess until next time