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[Catrin]

That WAS interesting Blueberry, though I admit that I was cringing when I read your disclaimer - and while I could have chosen to skip it I made the choice not to do so and I am glad I didn't. Thank you for the post and, indeed, good luck as you get to know your cadaver more.

[Crankin]

I am getting all bent out of shape about this moving thing. While I am good with the septic fix, and waiting to relist our house, I thought the condo reno would be further along by now. All kinds of things have slowed it down, mostly because we are using Lowe's and having to oversee all of it. And we just didn't know about a few of the things we had to schedule. Also, it turns out the tile we are having removed (bathrooms and entry) was put in in an old fashioned way, where it was glued down. So, when the guy from the store comes out measure, he doesn't know this. They hire installers, who show up and discover this. Hence, that did not get done on Monday. They are coming back today to do the bathrooms, as they can lay the new tile over the old. But the entry way has to be sledge hammered out, so it meets the hardwood correctly. Has to be renegotiated for price, and then rescheduled. DH has spent hours on fixes for things that he didn't know about. Now, we find out one of our vanities has drawers in a place where the pipes might interfere... turns out a lot of stuff in the bathrooms was done quite strangely. But, we've been told we can order a new one if it doesn't work, and that means another few weeks. It's the guest bath, thankfully. Then, the vanities showed up without the sink bowls we chose. No one told us someone has to come out and measure for those, too.
These are not deal breakers, but I am wishing we just hired a general contractor from a kitchen/bath place, like we did with this house. I know it would have been a lot more $, but poor DH has had to take off a lot of work, at a time when he has a lot of work, and he's been gone from 5 AM to 7 every day. Very unlike him. And he's spent countless hours over there, doing stuff. We are lucky he has the trade skills to do this, but he's not doing much exercise because of it (except running up and down stairs). Our neighbors there asked if we were going to "flip" the place, because we haven't moved in.
Hoping that moving van can get up our driveway, if there's snow!