yay! accomplishment!
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winterbadgerI got the shelves up in the laundry room closet. Lots of mistakes along the way in this project, from not thinking to check where the folding doors will go if I ever put them back (whch would require probably either replacing the doors themselves or tearing out the carpeting in the room and replacing it--the carpet installer ludicrously suggested sanding them; yeah, moron, how would you like to *sand* 1/2" to 3/4" off the bottom of a series of folding doors? Didn't think so) and thus getting shelves that, in such an eventuality will probably prove too big, to somehow measuring the width of the closet wrong (fortunately thinking it was narrower than it is rather than the other way around), to drilling the first set of holes wrong, to assuming that there were no studs in that section of wall because all the places that I had tested in which the stud finder (a tool no household should be without!) said there was a stud had in fact nothing but drywall. However, all done, finally. Mistakes corrected for one way or another, and three sets of shelves hung. I'll just transfer the stuff I want to move out of my bedroom closet (where I'll now have more room than I know what to do with! maybe enough room for a GF to keep some clothes for the occasional sleepover :-) need to find the GF first, though :-) and into the new space.
Also need to soak one corner of the laundry room closet with cat-pee-neutralizing stuff. Ugh. No idea how cats can get pee onto the floor of a closet when there's stuff in the way without leaving a trace. I mean, there was no smell before. I moved stuff into that corner. Said stuff was never disturbed (had dust on it today when I moved it). Yet a few days ago a strong *odor* began eminating that hadn't before and, for sure, there's a nasty dampness there. Bleah!
Then, ho! for half an hour in the hammock with a book before a quick shower. Didn't (again) get the kitchen or bathroom cleaned as I had hoped to do; well, I warned poor D the place was a bit scruffy! :-)
Also need to soak one corner of the laundry room closet with cat-pee-neutralizing stuff. Ugh. No idea how cats can get pee onto the floor of a closet when there's stuff in the way without leaving a trace. I mean, there was no smell before. I moved stuff into that corner. Said stuff was never disturbed (had dust on it today when I moved it). Yet a few days ago a strong *odor* began eminating that hadn't before and, for sure, there's a nasty dampness there. Bleah!
Then, ho! for half an hour in the hammock with a book before a quick shower. Didn't (again) get the kitchen or bathroom cleaned as I had hoped to do; well, I warned poor D the place was a bit scruffy! :-)
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Date: 2004-09-12 10:25 pm (UTC)Doreen survived my house on more than one occasion, so I don't think yours can frighten her too badly.
;-)
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Date: 2004-09-13 04:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-13 12:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-13 02:29 pm (UTC)Sounds like a job for a jigsaw and power plane.
I have them, but shipping the doors here could be awkward and you don't have enough volts there to run the tools.
::thinks::
Trained beavers?
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Date: 2004-09-13 05:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-13 05:56 pm (UTC)If suitably sharpened and thrown at the door at the right angle it should do the job nicely!
Armour vincit omnia, as they say.
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Date: 2004-09-13 07:29 pm (UTC)ROFLOL! I love you! :-)
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Date: 2004-09-14 12:23 am (UTC)::grin::
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Date: 2004-09-14 03:07 am (UTC)cheers,
Jan