Oops, that was dumb!

In anticipation of occupying our home, I called the phone company to set up our phone. We are transferring our current phone number and service that I set up at the rental to our house. During the winter there appears to have been a conflict between our phone drop and a delivery truck or something. It has been clear for some time that the phone company will need to install a new drop (line from the street to the house) in order to get service to the house. Because it may not be as simple as activating service, I decided to get the phone switched over early -on Friday in fact. That would also give us time to test the new internal wiring, which has all been re-done. What I forgot was that our broadband connection is DSL (not cable modem like we had in Seattle). We lost our internet at the rental! We are a tad dependent on it. Oops. Unfortunately, it gets worse (but the rest isn't my fault) Even though I told the phone company ,when I set all of this up, that we would need a new drop, we didn't get one. It does not appear that anyone came out to verify service, which was supposed to happen. So we don't even have any phone/DSL at our house either. I messed up our internet access for NOTHING. Oh well. Don't try calling our phone number for a few days:)

The painters have been hard at work spraying finish on the woodwork. They have cleaned and re-stained all the beams and have sprayed the ceilings with a flat finish along with the satin finish they have been putting on all of the trim work. The house is all papered and taped, and filled with a nasty chemical cloud. I don't even want to go in there yet, because they were working yesterday.

We don't have any working toilets yet. The plumbers spent quite some time trying to figure out why they couldn't get the new toilet to fit properly in the guest bath. It turns out that the toilets are for a 12" rough-in and that bathroom has a 10" rough-in. Yes, I would think that professional plumbers should have considered that and gotten their measuring tapes out in less than 3 hours. You'd think that the symptoms would be pretty clear. They installed the rough-ins for the two upstairs toilets, which are 12" rough-in, so they may have had it in their heads that all of the toilets in the house were 12". The layout of this bathroom was left as it was built, so this is the original 1965 rough-in and therefor different from the others. Hopefully they can get a toilet installed in at least one of the upstairs baths!

What I hear is that all the subs have to finish up on Tuesday. Then the house gets cleaned up on Wednesday and carpet is installed on Thursday. We move in of Friday. Hmm...