many years ago when we first started shopping for a house, a co-worker of mathew’s recommended we see the movie, “the money pit,” staring tom hanks and shelley long. i think she meant it as a cautionary tale. of course we never saw it. and now i keep thinking about that movie…
(above, left.) we’ve got major plumbing drama this week. on saturday we had plumbers tear up our sidewalk, dig down to our sewer line and repair the broken pipe and connection, only to return today to test it with high pressure water and find that the clay pipe is broken further up the line… this means we need to tear up the driveway concrete leading all the way up to the house and replace all the clay pipe with cast iron. $$$$. the upside: we shouldn’t have to replace the sewer line again.
(above, right.) check me out in my super-cool accessories! respirator, goggles and ear protection: makes me feel like a star wars character. this weekend as mathew got closer to completing the upstairs bathroom plumbing, i did more scraping, sanding, moulding removal and paint stripping. have you ever tried sanding a ceiling? hard work!
and i had my first try at plaster (with lots of help from mathew.) paint is coming soon! exciting. guess that means i should finally decide on a color.
mathew’s work hasn’t been too photogenic, but here’s a nice shot of him removing superfluous pipe outside.
i love the walls in the background behind janeen. in architecture school, we used to spend hours making ‘morph board’ to build models out of. the walls upstairs, after stripping glue and paint, and sanding, filling and more sanding look like morph board all over. will be a pity to paint over it.
bro, i was thinking exactly that, such a pity to paint over that, i was thinking i would be into use that for my record sleeve
Hiya Mathew and Janeen
I am certainly not worried that you are not eating with all that food .
The place looks as if it is a little cold now. I am wondering where time flys to as I have worked for a couple of weeks and been hunting for properties round and round Brighton.i wish I could share this bussiness with some one!
I am going to stay with Peggy in Broad Chalk from 20th-27th Dec.not that far from Mia’s in Bournemouth so we are going to have some time together over Christmas.Love from Mumsie