Huh.....

Almost back in business

Who da thunk that vacuuming concrete could be therapeutic? Well it turns out it was for me yesterday. I "worked from home" yesterday in attempt to help Eric and his brother Bryan do some repairs at the condo. At first when I got there my taking the day to help out seemed ...fruitless. They were busy hanging dry wall and I was slamming my fists on the table trying to pull wireless internet out of my ass - with no luck. So I packed up my laptop and went back to work for a few hours to get some much needed in-office stuff done before heading back over to the construction site.

The boys determined that I'd be most helpful as a construction site cleaning lady. I know they just thought I looked totally hot in with that jumbo shop vac hose in hand sucking the life out of our concrete flooring - but whatever -- it felt good to be helpful AND to make our little disaster of a home look a tad on the clean side.

What does a construction site cleaner do?

1. Pick up dry wall scraps
2. Pick up and sort nails & screws (bent and useless/straight and usable)
3. Throw away fast food soda cups
4. Make a Starbucks run
5. Gather and distribute pencils
6. Stack, sort, and centralize tools
7. Shop vac the crap out of the floor picking up dry wall and saw dust
8. Clean the muck out of the kitchen sink
9. Haul out trash

The whole afternoon was very therapeutic. It changed the face of the condo in my eyes. And we now have walls. I love walls. No more exposed pipes. No more naked condo. The kitchen sink no longer looks like we slaughtered a pig in it and since we have water we got to FINALLY do the dinner dishes from 3 weeks ago. Score!

Here's my public service announcement: The reason we had this problem is because of BUNK piping in our condo (Polybutylene Plumbing or PB piping). Piping that is actually so bad that they have some class action law suit because of it and even some TV commercials begging people to contact the consumer plumbing recovery center if that piping has destroyed your home. It's an 80's fad -- so if you have a home, built in the 80's, check to see if you have this bunk piping before you are wading in a swamp you once called "living room". Or more importantly -- if you're getting ready to buy a home -- check out the pipes first!!

posted by Jessiedc28 @ 9:30 AM