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So our basement wall had water damage. Mysterious water damage. We'd had the plaster ripped out, the brick sealed, and the wall replastered a year and a half ago. Very slowly, the water damage came back. We had the roof resealed. No change. We brought in multiple contractors and moisture specialists, with various opinions and proposals. It was decided it must be a pinhole leak from the water pipe running under the floor and the stairs.
They ripped out the bottom landing floor and ripped out the wall again. Very minor leak, not enough to cause the damage. (But enough to cause plenty of mold.) Instead, it's apparently coming from condensation on the dryer pipe, which is too long and not wide enough.
Rather than punch holes in exterior walls and move the dryer into the utility closet, or run additional pipes through the shower, they suggest getting a lint trap bucket. Oh wait, that doesn't work with gas dryers. Ok, we'll get a high powered fan and reroute the pipes so it blows everything out faster, plus an extra lint trap. Great.
In the process of all this, we agitate the mice living in our walls, so they start running brazenly around the kitchen and dodging past my bare feet. (I caught one in a bucket on Friday.)
And then two days ago, Chuckro turns on the oven, and we smell gas. We open up the windows. We're not sure. I turn it on again...and the door whumpfs open by itself and then slams closed again. I peer cautiously inside...where the jets are irregularly puffing out little bursts of flames. I turn it off. I check the drawer under the oven...which is full of mouse poop and chewed up insulation. The mice have chewed through our oven.
So now we need a new oven. Sears' website, though, does not actually have the oven we need in stock. Except apparently they do, maybe? Because their website isn't really working correctly? (Sears, this is why you're going to go out of business.) So who knows. But we can't bake things anymore until we get this fixed.
I'm not even going into the great fight with the mortgage broker, the insurance company, the incompetent surveyors of doom, and FEMA. It's been a super fun couple months.
They ripped out the bottom landing floor and ripped out the wall again. Very minor leak, not enough to cause the damage. (But enough to cause plenty of mold.) Instead, it's apparently coming from condensation on the dryer pipe, which is too long and not wide enough.
Rather than punch holes in exterior walls and move the dryer into the utility closet, or run additional pipes through the shower, they suggest getting a lint trap bucket. Oh wait, that doesn't work with gas dryers. Ok, we'll get a high powered fan and reroute the pipes so it blows everything out faster, plus an extra lint trap. Great.
In the process of all this, we agitate the mice living in our walls, so they start running brazenly around the kitchen and dodging past my bare feet. (I caught one in a bucket on Friday.)
And then two days ago, Chuckro turns on the oven, and we smell gas. We open up the windows. We're not sure. I turn it on again...and the door whumpfs open by itself and then slams closed again. I peer cautiously inside...where the jets are irregularly puffing out little bursts of flames. I turn it off. I check the drawer under the oven...which is full of mouse poop and chewed up insulation. The mice have chewed through our oven.
So now we need a new oven. Sears' website, though, does not actually have the oven we need in stock. Except apparently they do, maybe? Because their website isn't really working correctly? (Sears, this is why you're going to go out of business.) So who knows. But we can't bake things anymore until we get this fixed.
I'm not even going into the great fight with the mortgage broker, the insurance company, the incompetent surveyors of doom, and FEMA. It's been a super fun couple months.
