Author Image Posted By : dbfnetwork 7 Jul
The Renovation is Just About Done

Of course that is a pretty relative statement, it is more apt to say that most of the work inside of the house has been done. Tomorrow me and this friend of mine are going to do one last big project. He told me where to get shower doors in NJ and they arrived yesterday, thankfully without getting busted up or scratched. These are really nice and they are very heavy if you ask me. If I did not have him to help me it would be time to find an installer, or to put it correctly if I did not have for me to help. He is certainly the one who is going to be calling the shots and telling me what he needs me to do. It is actually a little scary when you watch the videos on the internet. You could most definitely screw this up and end up a bloody mess.

Of course I did all of the work of the floors and the walls myself. When I was in college I would come home in the summer and I did summer jobs of various sorts. The most fun one involved working in a water park where there were a lot of really wild girls working too. However I also learned a good bit about painting, wallpaper and installing both flooring and carpets. It is not as though I did any of them for very long, but the jobs could be learned up to a point fairly quickly. The guy who taught me to put tiles down would probably not have liked the job that I did in the bathroom. He was a really hard guy to please, but I started out in the places where it is not so obvious. None of the mistakes I made were obvious when I was done.

Author Image Posted By : dbfnetwork 7 Jul
We Had to Improvise for the 4th of July

I guess that all things considered I should probably look on the bright side of things, even though it sure seemed like a catastrophe to start with. The big thing is that we were going to have visitors over and that meant that I did not have time for fooling about, so I had to find an emergency plumber in Bergen county NJ to come and fix the pipes that were leaking beneath the toilet and the shower. The house is getting old, it was built in the early 70’s and that was a long time ago. I suspect that our water is just a little corrosive and that they skimped on the pipes way back then, the walls are certainly very thing after nearly half a century of use. At any rate things could definitely have been a lot worse. It was almost bed time when I just went down the stairs to take a load of laundry out of the washer and put it in the dryer.

It must not have been leaking all that long, I did not even really notice it until I realized water was running down my forehead. Of course I turned the water off and then I ran the water so that it would all run out of the pipes. You need to do that so that the plumber can just start patching things up. I probably could have done it myself, but that would have taken time and required a trip to the home improvement store. Instead we had half a dozen people over of a cook out and then we all went to the ball park to watch the fireworks. The next day we went to the lake for another cookout along with water skiing and fishing and riding on jet skis.

Author Image Posted By : dbfnetwork 7 Jul
A Storm Knocks Down Trees

After the biggest storm our city of Asheville had seen all spring, it was no shocker that there was trees fallen everywhere. Roads were blocked, power lines down, and a few homes were destroyed. Sadly, the city didn’t think that removing the trees was their job so we all had to find tree removal in Asheville on our own. Thankfully, there was plenty of services to contact but I shopped around for the best price for someone to come and remove the 3 trees that had fallen in the yard.

Competition was tight when it came to tree removal around that time. Everyone wanted the task because I guess when you get in a tree cutting groove, it’s easy to just go down the line. I settled on this company that was newer and had the best price to have a tree removed. They offered a discount for each extra tree removed as well. It ended up costing me $350 for all three trees, which I thought was a great price. Especially considering how much I heard that my neighbors were being charged for one tree to be removed. I was lucky and thankful to have found them!

Not only did they cut up the trees for me, they also hauled them away. Some tree removal services that were working with my neighbors didn’t do that. They cut the trees down and left them by the road for someone else to deal with. Not only did I have a great price, I also didn’t have to deal with taking the trees away! I couldn’t believe that there was services that actually left the trees there after charging and arm and a leg! In the end, the storm might have taken out some trees, but the real people taking the tree out was the removal service that I contacted!