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As you know we started the home renovation projects last summer…. and by now? I fully intended to be done, feet up and comfortably seated on our new furniture.
Meanwhile back at Casa River –
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Lord Dudley Mountcatten explores the changes…
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And while our contractor is prepping the floor…
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My husband was roped into cutting in the ceiling paint along the edges of the wall.
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Taking up the damaged sub floor sections, the contractor discovered tar paper …
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And one seriously, not even close to level, major hump in the middle of the room.
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Of course he did.
It’s our God forsaken cursed house after all.
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At this point? If he dug up a blackened corpse in a coffin covered in satanic symbols…
I’d just see it as explanation.
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That hutch is heavy, it’s easier to paint around than move.
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The new flooring?
It’s currently clogging up my kitchen.
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Easy to install?
Clearly it doesn’t know who it’s dealing with…
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River's world..... 
My weird little mind went directly to – “Why isn’t your contractor guy wearing work gloves?” As for the floors – oh my – let the games begin….
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The games beginning is what I’m afraid of.
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I had to chuckle at the hutch photo. Before we moved to our new house, I told hubby he had to paint the wall where my humungous desk/hutch would be going because we wouldn’t be able to move it later (it took 3 big movers to bring it in). Hubby painted that wall. The hutch was placed. A few years later we re-painted. Now we have one wall that’s not quite the same color as the rest of the room because of that silly hutch.
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Ha!
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There’s a fine line between being roped into something and volunteering because you want to. Which side was your hubby on?
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The more my husband does the less we have to pay the contractor for…. so while he didn’t actually want to, he did volunteer.
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That makes perfect cents.
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Your contractor isn’t thinking about taking up the subfloor to remove the tar paper, is he? The hump in the floor bewilders me. I could understand a sag, gravity and all. What’s under it? maybe a post or a wall that was knocked in a bit too tight. That’s the thing to hope for. If not, you may save a bit of money by getting a Steinway grand piano and putting it over the spot. If it doesn’t push it back down just think of how many plants you can put on it.
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This is Maine, land of the frost heave. Given enough time everything shifts up here. The original part of the house was built in ‘74, the addition in ‘94. The hump is where the old floor meets the new. We talked about replacing all the subfloor but… ka-ching! It’s thick wood, the contractor thinks he can sand it down to level.
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You’ve got frost, I’ve got tree roots and a beautiful checkerboard kitchen floor developing cracks between the tiles. Dirt crawlspace=whole different set of problems. Still feelin’ ya!
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😂oh my
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You know I use to think that everything I fixed at my house and finding aggravating crap done by the previous owner was bad. But your house must have been build on a sacred Indian burial ground or something, damn girl!
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It’s amazing what you find when you start doing major renovations.
I don’t recommend it.
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Maybe you should adopt your contractor and just let him move in. and help his family. Good luck.
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That’s not a bad idea… he could do a little tile work every time he showers.
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Such disruption!
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Indeed.
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