We were very happy with the slow progress we were making sorting out the workshop. We have all sorts in there. Family have their stuff stored in there, we have a lot of my husband's mother's stuff in there, (she died in 2010), some of my stuff and some of my husbands. Not to mention the functioning aspect of the shop with our tools and work benches, wood and leather plus an old cooker, an old washing machine and 4 old TV's. Garden equipment etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. (Any one who remembers the original movie 'The King and I' will understand that reference lol)
Floor space was at a premium I can tell you.
Any way much sorting and repacking into totes and dumping of stuff was happening. We had been working at this for about 5 or 6 weeks as we can only do about an hour or so a day as neither of us can do more than that with the rest of the daily stuff that needs doing.
Then on Wednesday we went into the pump house that is on the end of the workshop and the well pressure tank was leaking and the floor was very wet.
Darn! frantic calls to plumbers and friends who know about these things yielded nothing, nada, nilch! So much researching was done and we sorted what tank we needed to buy to replace the leaky one. $500 buckaroos later and a 4 hour trip to pick it up yesterday early evening. It is currently in the back of the van as it is very big and heavy.
Our wonderful neighbour's son is going to help us install it but we have to replace some of the floor boards and the pipework so not a quick fix. He is not a plumber but is a bit of a jack of all trades. We didn't want to bother him, would have gladly got a plumber in but getting one to even reply to our phone calls just didn't happen
If that wasn't enough, we had a really bad storm Wednesday night and woke up to my computer being fritzed and 2 sound systems attached to our TV's had fried also. Also the water wasn't running. We though maybe the tank had burst completely but the storm had taken out a breaker and the well pump had stopped running. Thankfully my husband was able to fix that so we do have water but the tank is still leaking. The TV in the living room wouldn't work either but Direct TV came out and got that sorted.
So not the best of weeks, will update when we make any progress. Needless to say the sorting out of the shop has ground to a halt until we get these other issues resolved.
I like making things!
Oh dear, not a good week. Hope things improve and you manage to get the repairs done.
ReplyDeleteOh geez. That is always how it goes. One thing after another. I hope you don't have anymore crappy surprises and are able to get things replaced and repaired. We have a 3 stall garage that used to be Terry's workshop. I don't think we will ever be able to clear it out. Terry won't get rid of ANYTHING.
ReplyDeletexx, Carol