Day 65 April 20

Well not the day any of us were hoping for but the necessary steps were addressed. It first started when Ben came over and him and David started evaluating the levelness of floor. (Side note, David hoped to get to the leveling part yesterday but as the night got later he just ran out of steam, and figured him and Ben could do it the next day.) To say the least, it was awful. Pretty much there was no space that didn’t need work. We originally figured we would need to level some spaces and had picked up self-leveling compound a few days ago, but we completely underestimated the need.

So while David and Ben worked on the floor, I ran to the local lumber store where we had ordered our glue. We were supposed to receive a call yesterday when the shipment was to arrive, but since we never got the call, I just figured I’d swing in. Once I got there I got the bad news that the glue wasn’t in because the truck bringing the order had broke down and it wouldn’t arrive until Monday. Shitter sticks!! I relayed the news to David and he took it better than I thought. I think he realized that the leveling would take a few days to lay and then dry, so we wouldn’t be able to glue the floor anyways until the beginning of next week at the earliest. We’re so naive. To be expected though when it’s your first time I guess.

About that time Ben left since there wasn’t much left to do after they laid the leveling compound we did have, and I left to get my haircut. When I came back a few hours later, David had changed directions and built the wall in the loft to close in the new duct work. It looked great! What a stud :o) He had also assessed the materials we would need for the floor and we made a trip to Lowes. We figured while we’re there we could pick up our sink too.

Aaaaaand NO! To make a long story short, basically the person who pulled the sink when I ordered it online pulled the wrong one, and the only other one was purchased, leaving no sink for us. It was disappointing because we have had such great customer service with Lowe’s, and this was a complete crap shoot. We had to have the sink by Monday and they couldn’t get another one to the store until Wednesday, leaving us to drive 30 minutes out of our way to a different store where they put one on hold. This situation shed so many problems with their system and customer service, but after we bitched about it for a little bit to each other, we sucked it up and decided I would pick up the sink tomorrow after I went to a baby shower. On the positive side, we were able to pick up more self-leveling compound in the hopes to complete that process tomorrow after church.