First thing Saturday morning, we had all our debris from the past four weeks stacked neatly in the attached garage, ready for the North Kansas City Hauling guys to take it away. While I waited, a contractor came over to work up a bid for professional skim-coating of the de-popcorned ceilings. I think I did pretty well on the bathroom, but if we can get a pro to do the others fairly reasonably, it'll be worth it in the long run, we think.
The trash carted off, I felt liberated and motivated to work more on getting the bathroom ready for the plumber. We now know where the sinks are going to go, and we're pretty thrilled for what they're going to look like. The dishtowels you see here are simply making sure we don't chip any porcelain during the dry run.
After this picture was taken, I then roughed in the opening for the new medicine chest, installed the junction boxes for the lighting fixtures (we both decided downsie was the way to go) and generally cleaned things up. We're going to have to get one of the existing plumbing joints redone, because it's corroded and leaks if you touch it. Ouch. Glad we found that while the wall was open.
Sunday morning, it was time to get the U-Haul and finish moving Jeff's stuff out of his Midtown apartment. First, though, a side trip to Bonner Springs to pick up the queen-sized bed my sister is trading us for the very nice futon I used to have in my guest room. This suits both our needs well, as she didn't really have the room for the bed, and we didn't really need a futon -- but will love having a bigger bed than we've ever enjoyed.
We got all of Jeff's stuff moved and returned the truck within four hours. Unfortunately, I did a bad piece of packing and smashed a little bookcase of Jeff's. Boo. I can fix it. But how annoying to have done it in the first place.
After some rest, it was time to go put in the order for all the flooring for the entire house. That was a painful dollar figure to see in one place. But again, we knew it was coming. We even sprang for the deluxe underlayment.
Now we have all the locking flooring (they had enough in stock) sitting in the living room, and the other 90 boxes -- yes, 90 boxes -- will be arriving via special order in about two weeks. Where we'll let that land, I have no idea. Maybe by that time we'll have the popcorn all obliterated and we can stack it in the bedrooms.
Anyhow. We need food. Very, very tiring weekend. Look at the attached garage now, though. We're all packed in.
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