As with all finishing touches, something usually unexpected happens. As we were finishing the plumbing on the new bathroom sink, Walt Kowalski pulled the drain pipe up. And up. And up and up.
Too far up. "Look how much extra is on this pipe!"
And then it hit him. Argh, it's not extra. It's not connected!
There it is...W-A-Y back in the back of the crawl space. Just enough room for him, but not enough room to be comfortable to work.
He fixed it. What a pain in the...shoulder.
Miss Brenda commented on my bathroom painting mistakes the other day. She said that when they remodeled their first house they had the same problem painting. The problem was because latex paint was painted over oil-based paint without a proper primer. She said when their paint peeled it revealed a lovely mint green paint. I wasn't lucky enough to fund the mint green paint until yesterday!
I removed a sticky telephone jack from the baseboard and several layers of paint came with it. Behind those layers was the mint green!
Luckily, it covers nicely. It's there for the next person to find. The quarter round on the baseboard finished the floors nicely.
Parts of the kitchen didn't have baseboard at all. Previously cabinets were attached to this wall, so no baseboard was ever present.
Today is Wednesday before Thanksgiving. The day of cooking for me. The day of travel for some. As the Sargent in Hill Street Blues would say 'be careful out there.'
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