05-04-2011, 10:57 PM
So, tiles down in the kitchen, spacers are in and it should be dry by morning. Tomorrow it gets grout and we can finally move some of our kitchen stuff in and actually use the room. We've been trying to go pick up our countertop for 3 days now and it keeps on raining in the evenings. As soon as we get a sunny day with no rain we can bring them home and put them in.
The tiles are 13"x13" and ended up looking a little bit bigger in the kitchen than I thought they would. I think once the table and everything is in there...and the fridge isn't in the middle of the room...I'll like them a lot more. Also, all cabinets are hung except for one. We had to special order the one to go over the fridge.
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So our dryer is a 4-plug cord and the wall in our house has a 3 plug (all homes built after 1996 have to have a 4-plug recepticle installed, but the 3-plug units are grandfathered in and can still be used. They just don't use a seperate ground and neutral line). I thought about swapping the wall recepticle out but after I took the cover off I find that there is no 4th ground or extra conduit to make into the neutral, so I put it back in and swapped the power cord from the old dryer over. After all the work I spin the dryer around just to discover that the old dryer cord is about a foot too short. So I removed it, went to lowes and picked up a new 6' 3-prong unit for about $18 and put it in. Dryer works like a charm.
Turned the cold water line on for the washing machine and had a semi-slow drip going on. I guess where the house sat empty and unused for 2 years the seals in it dried up. So I got some wonder putty and covered it. It pretty much stopped the drip, but it's merely a band-aid until I can get around to doing a proper fix for it.
The tiles are 13"x13" and ended up looking a little bit bigger in the kitchen than I thought they would. I think once the table and everything is in there...and the fridge isn't in the middle of the room...I'll like them a lot more. Also, all cabinets are hung except for one. We had to special order the one to go over the fridge.
So our dryer is a 4-plug cord and the wall in our house has a 3 plug (all homes built after 1996 have to have a 4-plug recepticle installed, but the 3-plug units are grandfathered in and can still be used. They just don't use a seperate ground and neutral line). I thought about swapping the wall recepticle out but after I took the cover off I find that there is no 4th ground or extra conduit to make into the neutral, so I put it back in and swapped the power cord from the old dryer over. After all the work I spin the dryer around just to discover that the old dryer cord is about a foot too short. So I removed it, went to lowes and picked up a new 6' 3-prong unit for about $18 and put it in. Dryer works like a charm.
Turned the cold water line on for the washing machine and had a semi-slow drip going on. I guess where the house sat empty and unused for 2 years the seals in it dried up. So I got some wonder putty and covered it. It pretty much stopped the drip, but it's merely a band-aid until I can get around to doing a proper fix for it.
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