It
is safe to say that we did not have a relaxing start to the week. When my wife
and I finally finished sorting and packing all the things that we wanted to
store on Sunday night I made a big pile in front of the basement door. I was
hoping that I could simply make a few trips up and down the stairs while
sliding the boxes onto the shelves. There isn’t much room left but there was
enough to accommodate our recent cleaning. This was the quick and easy plan
when I first balanced those boxes and bins atop the stairs… sometimes plans
just don’t work out.
It
all got derailed during my first trip to the unfinished storage room. I opened
the door, turned on the light, and squinted a bit as the glint reflected off
the wet floor. Something was obviously wrong and I soon found the culprit in a
leaking pipe coming out of the HVAC unit. After taking a quick picture and
sending it to the maintenance guy for our house, I quickly stacked the shelves
before calling to report what I had found. Thankfully, he was up at midnight
and quickly got a plan together which had everything taken care of in a couple
of days.
Stuff
happens and things were taken care of quickly so no complaining on this one
(unlike in the past). However, our fun didn’t stop there as when I got home
from work on Monday I was welcomed with fumes filling the house and my wife,
with a rather pissed look on her face, greeting me at the front door. As it
turns out, our neighbor decided to refinish all of his hardwood floors next
door and didn’t even think to let us know. By the time I got home they had just
finished stripping the floors and the stink was permeating the walls.
While
we can’t stop him from improving his property, it would have been nice to have
had a heads up. After all, we spend a couple of hours going back and forth and
double checking that our son would be okay sleeping in his own bed. This
frustration could have easily been avoided.
The
following days was met with more stink as the finish was applied. It wasn’t
until I left for work this morning when the smell finally somewhat dissipated and the
noxious wall finally fell (it still stinks but it isn't as bad as when it started). So hopefully this is the last of the leaks and soon to be the last of the smells for a while but one thing that this reinforced for us is the fact that
we are definitely going to look for our own free standing home with a little
bit of a buffer of land around us. Thankfully, that was already part of our list.
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