Under the sink plumbing.
So I am jumping the gun a bit, I haven’t even posted about the 4 closing we had and were botched, or that we finally, eventually, almost didn’t, but in the end did close.
I didn’t write about swapping lenders after the original appraisal because we didn’t have a kitchen and no one told us until the appraiser just walked out on us that it would be a problem. Nor did I right about the three nights in a row we stayed up at Lunt until 2:30 in the morning to install kitchen cabinets from Ikea. I didn’t write about moving out of Wells and the whirlwind weekend, my family over from Michigan to help us move, clean, paint, and install closet/pantry organizers so we would have a place to at least hang our cloths. Didn’t write about the 2 weeks illegally squatting, nor the phone call about the lawsuit,(phewuuu, good thing it wasn’t against us!), and I certainly didn’t write about attempting to shower in the rain on Chicago’s rainiest day in recorded history, as a desperate measure as we were trying to let the caulk dry in the shower.
However, after 3 weeks of living squatting and 2 weeks of living legally here I finally got around to installing the plumbing in the kitchen, if you can actually call it that… Either way its one step closer to being a kitchen now with the addition of running water! WHOOO! I went ahead and dry fit the pipes and everything seemed to fit just fine. But of course as soon as I pull out the pvc cement and start gluing the it all together it decides to play hardball and doesn’t want to match up again. Eventually I give it a bit of muscle and torque it all together which is not the best thing to do with plumbing. Needless to say I have a very slow drip, only when the sink is completely full, nothing a little plumbers putty won’t fix.
Drying dishes on the floor.
I digress, Its not that running water in a kitchen shouldn’t be a priority when you have been living in your first house for the past 3 weeks, its just that doing dishes in the bathroom and drying them in the middle of the living room floor doesn’t seem like that bad of a proposition in the grand scheme of things. I mean really we were trying to shower in the rain just a few days ago, what’s the rush to get a kitchen sink right? Now it’s just a matter of time before we actually get around to installing the garbage disposal…. eh, I’d rather get a dog, and have it act as dishwasher and garbage disposal.
Needless to say it does feel good to have that part of the condo back again. I suppose it wasn’t really the best workbench in the world. It will be nice being able to actually put a meal together without worrying about the plumbers putty becoming an accidental condiment and glooping onto my sandwich during lunch time.
AWWWHHHhhhh Perfect…… the flipping toilet just decided to randomly spill its guts out all over the floor, back to work!
Tagged: kitchen, plumbing, Real Estate, the condo