Rehabber’s Rehab

Interesting link about the history of stucco and preservation and repair my mother-in law passed on.  Information we’re going to start needing pretty soon if we want to repair some of the damage we’ve done.  Well, it’s not all our fault – obviously the place needed work when we bought it.

Preservation Brief 22: The preservation and repair of stucco

We’d been pretty unhappy with the electrician, from his constant complaining, scratching up our newly refinished floors, and leaving messes around, he has been one of our least favorite contractors (although I am sure he has not liked this project either as he is deathly allergic to cats, and has been miserable the whole time).  But when I mentioned my biggest pet peeve to him, that the two plugs in the bathroom above the sink were not level with one another, I was told that it would be “no problem” to fix it.

So when I came home from work tonight, and went in the bathroom and saw the GIANT hole in the wall indicating he had fixed it, I figured it was no problem, no big deal.  I said “so…I guess the electrician was here.”  Thor had been home for a couple of hours at the time and replied “yup, he was just finishing up a couple of things.”  Thor seemed happy with having our electrical work done. I asked Thor if the electrician was done, and he repplied in the affirmative, everthing looked good.  I asked Thor if the two electrical boxes were level now, and he said “huh?  The electrical boxes?”

He then went into the bathroom.

“*Fudge! Gosh Darn it!  Gosh darn child of an un kind woman! What the fudge!  What the fudge was he thinking.  That fudging incompetent unmentionable…” and so on.  And on.

Meanwhile I am in the kitchen wondering what just happened.  I ask him if he’s hurt.  Because if this was about the hole in the wall, how had he managed to miss it the previous two hours while he was home.  To which Thor replied “*Fracking butt eater.  He put a giant hole in the wall.  In my newly dry-walled forking wall!”

I guess he hadn’t noticed.

We’ve been gone a while, in between trouble with hackers on the blog, vacation, and a project or two, things have fallen on the way side.  But now we’re taking a trip back in time, trying to remember what we’ve been up to the past two months.  Enjoy the catch-up!

Check out this article on the Illinois endangered historic places.

http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/theskyline/2009/01/the-glassy-airport-terminal-from-the-former-meigs-field-and-post-world-war-iihospital-buildings-likely-to-be-demolished-as-pa.html

Rather than focus on what we have done, and how far we’ve come, I though, let’s just think about all we have left to do.  Why focus on the accomplishments?  In honor of this, I’ve added a To Do list, so we will always be fully aware of just how much still needs to be done.