Kookoo for Rococo
Posted by K Tue, 31 Oct 2006 23:44:00 GMT
So exciting things have been going on, which I did document via Flickr a few days ago: we got the radiators back. And they look great! There is the small problem of one not fitting where it should because of a duct (the neverending Curse of the Ducts: I understand an elbow joint or two should take care of it so it isn’t the end of the world) but other than that, we can’t let the facts that we have yet to paint a thing and don’t have a boiler deter us from getting them installed. Anyway, I can’t stop looking at them and thinking that The Stripping Workshop is the best place ever. I don’t have a picture of it since I just noticed it Sunday night, but it says “ROCOCO” at the bottoms of them and I guess that was the model/style…they certainly are Rococo.
We are on the boiler hunt and talked to our second guy today, who was even better to talk to than the first guy, but who also told us we need to get our chimney investigated. It is likely dirty/blocked and possibly needs relining. I am sure it needs to be rebuilt in some expensive way since from the state of the rest of the house I don’t imagine chimney maintenance was at the top of the list for the previous owners. We will find out Thursday when someone comes out to crawl up on the roof and peer down the chimney.
The reason the chimney is a possible culprit is because the first boiler guy pointed out the fact that our water heater exhaust pipe has, um, holes in it and is probably slowly killing us with carbon monoxide or something. The second guy took that one further and posited that since the pipe has holes in it, from rust, there is probably a condensation problem and the chimney might be partly blocked. And I know nothing about chimneys but read that this is highly possible. Anyway, lots of exciting and possibly expensive chimney education is on the way.
In lesser news, we got a cheap new rug which makes the living room more liveable and might be the best cheap rug ever, put a real blind in the small office so people can’t see in, dug up some concrete, installed new house numbers that make it look like crazy people live in the house, finished painting the porch, fixed up the basement some, and planted a bunch of bulbs even though I will probably end up moving them next year. I brought in and cleaned the bugs off most of the plants outside (and had to repot many of them), save for the fuchsia which still has to go in the basement once it goes dormant. Finding a good place to overwinter citrus isn’t easy, and bringing in the plants involved a lot of rearranging and cleaning and moving boxes. The bedroom door is fixed and doesn’t shut halfway by itself anymore, and now we just need to do the bathroom door and the one office door that vaguely irks me. Now that I know how to bend hinge pins I am unstoppable!
We still need to go to the dump and get painting and deal with the stupid medicine cabinet, but we had our first overnight guests last weekend and nobody died so that is a good thing.
Anyway, pictures are here.
Wow, those radiators are gorgeous!