Wow am I glad these last few days are over. A lot of good and a little bad, but all very draining.
The good: We have our bedroom set and it's gorgeous. We have our kitchen counter and sink installed, the dishwasher is in and not leaking (yay me!) and there might even be space to get it out in an emergency. The dryer has been fixed.
The bad: Getting the counter installed turned into an 11 hour day. Seems one of the install crew called in sick so they were running late...but did they bother to call me about it? No. So I waited through my 3 hour window, and they didn't show up. After calling the company (which at one point couldn't even get in touch with the crew), they finally showed up 2 hours after the window. And then, being one man short, took 6 hours to do the install. I complained to Home Depot...they gave me a $50 gift card
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More bad: the dryer is currently working, but the repair guy said that the vent is clogged and that if we don't get it cleared (~$200 service call), the dryer will continue to break down. Grrr. Maybe we'll find someone who has a plumbers snake we can borrow.
Bad: The plumbers we called in to install the sink (yeah, I could have done it myself, but it would have probably taken a week and energy I just don't have with all the other crap I need to do) were kinda lame. Fist off, they tried to sell me a brand new disposal even though we kept the old one. Which wasn't too bad, 'cause it is a really old disposal, but what pissed me off is that the guy said, "Why not, we're just going to charge it to Mr. Sloan."
I AM Mr. Sloan, you jerk. Seems he was under the impression that "Mr. Sloan" was a landlord and I was just renting from him. As if that's justification to just start charging anything they want to him. Of course, the good news is that the guys who pulled the sink out (from the same company) managed to lose part of the disposal, so it couldn't be reinstalled...so they gave us the new one for free. Yay.
Bad but good: After everything got installed, we moved the old range back into place. It's old, it's sticky, it's ugly...but it cooks our food. Except, the ignitor switch (electric ignition) for the oven seems to be jammed, so while all the burners are fine, the oven is out of comission. We took the switch apart yesterday to see if we could fix it oursevles. No luck. So we're looking at this, realizing that getting it fixed is easily a $200 service call, while a brand new one is about $300. A quick look at the budget...and we're off to buy a new range today. Yay!
But anyway, things are progressing. Next up is painting the kitchen cabinets. The new sink and counter are absolutely perfect, but we can't wait until it all comes together with the new paint. It will be heaven.