The pressure regulating valve on the line coming in from the street was replaced... and in short order, I might add. That plumber looked at the connector feed for the refrigerator when we install an ice maker. That feed line was installed prior to the remodel that was done in the lower level and is no longer easily accessible, so there will have to be an access panel put into the ceiling on the lower level. It is either now or later, when the little valve that is in the ceiling begins to leak... and from the way it looks, it will be sooner than later. Something for the future.
Yesterday, in addition to the window inspection, Rob & Kate had ordered carpet cleaning for the entire house. The carpet looked either tan or grey on my little screens that I get to view my future home. Rob told me it was actually white with flecks of color throughout. So I mentioned it was too bad that we had not thought of getting the carpets cleaned earlier, just after settlement. But they did make some calls and found someone who came yesterday afternoon.
It was one lone man, for the entire house (a tad more than 2100 square feet of living space). He vacuumed all over, then pre-treated, the ran the shampoo machine, so it took a few hours, which Rob had not planned on. Poor Rob, he has spent more time at the house than a normal resident might. He was there all day on Monday, all day on Tuesday and then all day yesterday. Kate might have spared him by taking turns... they are such a good team together, but she is in Seattle at a business conference, not due back until Sunday. So anything that needs tending at the Waves house, he will need to do himself. He says he will be happier once I am in the house, then I can take care of everything.
The carpets look lovely and Rob says the house smells fresher. The sellers had left air fresheners in every room. They were giving Rob a headache when he was there long, so he had begun moving them out of the rooms he was in. He said when he did that, that he could smell the cat that had lived in the house. If that is the case, then for sure my dogs would have smelled it. Rob told me that the carpet guy had offered an enzyme treatment but Rob had declined. I asked him to rethink that and have it done.... and he did. Hopefully that will take care of the remnants of cat that were left when the sellers moved out.
So, today, Rob is actually working on his job!! He had the ceiling fan running in the house upstairs to circulate the air. He found a pedestal fan in the garage and set that running on the lower floor. He said he had a couple of fans at home and would bring them in today to help the drying process in some of the closed off rooms. I am sure they will be fine by the time furniture begins to arrive.
Rob was at the house while the carpets were being cleaned, but he could not be IN the house. So he was relegated to the garage. He decided that he was going to try to enlarge the area outside the door to the outside from the garage. That is where the dogs will be let loose on their leads to wander and pee/poop. In the picture, you can sort of see a line, where the normal yard ended at the edge of the wood shed and you can see that Rob pretty much doubled the area. He used the lawn mower that was left by the sellers. His comment was "The mower works!!"
He comments also that there are some stumps and roots he will have to work on. I am hoping the poles and posts can be removed as well so the dogs do not wrap themselves around them each time they go outside.
Here in Pennsylvania I continue to sort and purge. It has really gotten more intense. I got the estimate of weight to be shipped to Alaska. It is a BIG number and I cannot imagine that I actually have that much stuff. But, just in case, I have gone into extreme removal of stuff mode.
Last night my friend, Danny Lantz, came up from Maryland and we dug through the workbench in the basement and the boxes of tools that had come up from Maryland. He took boxes and bags and buckets of tools and screws and stuff out of the basement and into his truck. Danny can always use tools. He is one of the really good guys who helps out anyone who needs assistance. He will lend tools to family and, quite often, does not get them back. He will make good use of them all. SO I have a few of the things that I tend to use and the screws that I like using, and the load of tools going to Alaska has been greatly lightened.
The last two days I have had my free table out front. Yesterday I filled the table three times. Today, I have already filled the table 4 times. One time, as I was unloading my little red wagon, a car stopped and was taking things almost as quickly as I was putting them out. Today it was basement stuff, office stuff, extra sewing stuff and kitchen stuff. I really do not need to take 6 pie plates to Alaska!
What amazes me is how some of the things I think will never be picked up go really fast and how some things linger around the table for several days and suddenly disappear. And it also makes me laugh to see how some folks look through the stuff, that will cost them NOTHING, and treat some of it like junk because it is not new. But usually by the end of the time I have the table out, only one or two things will remain.
The last several days, there has been a Nikon digital camera out there in a Ziplock bag with the book and cords and charger along with a digital SD card, too.... and no one picked it up until today!!! It was out there for three days.... a digital camera!
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