6-Month Walk-Through

Happy New(ish) Year! I know it's been a while since I posted anything to this blog, but not much has happened with the house. Josh and I both came down with nasty, lingering colds after Christmas, so we haven't had much energy (or time, or money) to do anything.

Believe it or not, it's been six months since we moved back in, so Steve W came by last week to do our 6-month walk-through. We compiled yet another punch list of items that needed repairing or tweaking, and Rob and John came over this morning to take care of them. It was great to see both of them after several months - I had to give myself a time limit to catch up with them so I wouldn't spend the whole time chatting and shirk all the work I needed to get done myself.

John very quickly re-did our pantry cabinets for us. Here's what they originally looked like:
There's one pull-out shelf in the upper cabinet, and two in the lower cabinet. Unfortunately, the upper shelf is so high it nearly clears the top of my head when you pull it out, so it wasn't of much use to me, and the two shelves in the lower cabinet didn't make good use of the space. We ordered a fixed shelf from Cindy, our cabinet lady -- which fortuitously arrived yesterday -- to replace the pull-out shelf in the upper cabinet, which we moved to the lower cabinet. See -- so much better!
Once that was done, John went upstairs to help Rob out in the master bath. They had to pull out Josh's medicine cabinet in order to access the electrical wiring and install a new outlet in the cabinet under the sink.
Now the electrical cord for our grey-water recycling system is neatly hidden under the sink rather then running out to the wall above the toilet.
Rob also re-caulked some spots in the shower where the caulk had come off.
And John tried to fix our front door -- yet again -- so it doesn't need to be slammed shut for the latch to catch.
I also asked them to reinstall the towel rings by the sinks in the two smaller bathrooms. They had originally installed them so low that the hand towels rested on the countertop. Of course, they had to patch up the drywall and repaint the wall before reinstalling them, but they were very efficient about it.
This may not look like much, but anyone who has stayed in our main level guest room -- or even visited our house for any length of time -- will appreciate knowing that we now have a lock on the bathroom door. I had John install it relatively high up on the door so little kids wouldn't lock themselves in.
Rob and John also patched up a few dings in the walls that probably happened when we were moving back in. (Rob thought this was a very artistic shot of him drying a patch on the wall.)
I also had a G.E. repairman come by in the afternoon to fix the excessively noisy fan in our convection oven, so it was quite a busy day. Rob was here until about 4, and John left around 5, but they got an impressive amount of work done in one day.