Club Garvin

After such a successful Saturday of trim work, certainly Sunday's little amount of trim would be no issue.  Except that it was.  Maybe the walls and trim were just more wonky in the rooms that were left, and the tub piece in the guest bathroom already presented itself as a pain.  So, maybe it does make sense that what was left was more difficult.  But, either way, tis DONE!  Caulked in and everything.  Well, it's done unless the Boss (Hi Wife!) deems another coat of paint is in order, which, who are we kidding, there's probably going to be a request for two.

With the mitering skills completely dusted off with the quarter round, it was time to tackle the thresholds.  Apparently, it's not ok for the bar codes on the tiles to be exposed.  Seemed like it was an opportunity for us to give some contingency-type information to the new homeowners, kinda like leaving leftover paint, or samples, or something.  But, so much for being considerate.  It was with that instruction that the seams between sunroom and living room, kitchen and dining, and bathroom and hallway were addressed.  Here's what all that mitering looks like with the pieces in place.

NOTE: The boss (Hi Wife!) will almost certainly not like the overhang to the tile, but oh well!

Figures 1-7  My geometry teacher would be sooo proud!  ...because of the angles.

That last piece of trim (on the left of Figure 7) is really the whole coup de grace (misspellings don't count if it's in a foreign language).  That piece had to be hogged out in the back where it meets the cabinet and then the end had to be mitered at some odd angle to match up with the trim of the cabinet.  Here that faint, brass-like wail in the background.

...listen close...

That's definitely the sound of me tooting.

...my own HORN!  Oof, that was awful, sorry.

Hard to believe but that's really the gist of the rest of Sunday and Monday.  There were some other crucial tasks that were accomplished that can perhaps be puffed up a bit to sound more important.  ...like, how's the fact that the house has HOT WATER NOW?!  Welcome to the penthouse.  Yup, again, my electrical expertise was put to get use diagnosing the problem (breaker = OFF).  Either way, it gets crossed off the list, and I get credit for it.  Also, a wonky cabinet/drawer interface was fixed.

With Monday being a holiday though, it was a free opportunity to catch up.  Of course, it would've been nice to have had a second set of hands working (Ooo, sick burn, huh boss?  (Hi Wife!)), but it was all moot because apparently this house was the hottest place to be in Orlando!  That's right, while diligently working towards the installation of a garbage disposal, the phone was blowing up with people wanting to schedule showings.  Immediately after putting my phone down and getting back under the sink someone knocks on the door wanting to see it.  Dude, follow the directions, notify the homeowner.  We don't need you seeing that kitchen sink isn't plumbed in yet.  After shoo-ing them away (only temporarily) another creeper realtor made a drive by, stopping outside just staring at me.  But, given my current axe-murderer like appearance, they thought better of coming to the door.

After they did their thing, I returned to the house to try and complete the disposal job.  Well, I came pretty darn close (all that lacks is the plumbing part).  Since the electrical line was a little too short, a box needed to be installed in the cabinet and a plug put on the disposal.  But, master electrician I am, BAM:

Figure 8.  It even turns ON and roars!

1. Full bore testing of the system will occur later this week if we're able to plumb it all up.