The house and its minions are getting out of hand because of the coronavirus. The drawbridge has been up since March 2020 to deny entry to plumbers, electricians, furnace and A/C technicians, cleaning ladies, and concealed-carry gun nuts. So "things fall apart, the center cannot hold. Mere anarchy is loosed upon the house."
The list of annoyances has grown since last spring. Both faucets in a bathroom sinks drip. An electrical outlet in the kitchen quit. So did another important outlet in the addition. The wood veneer is peeling away from the laundry-room door. The dishwasher door crashes down with a bang! if you forget to lower it carefully by hand. The device that prevents this has worked loose and fallen out. We had to let our pair of cleaning ladies go, even though we knew they needed the money. We've been cleaning the house ourselves, but we miss the two ladies very much and hope to hire them back sometime in 2021.
But then the vacuum cleaner quit. It shouldn't have. We'd taken it to the shop for a tune-up a little over a year ago and hadn't used it that much after that. (It's a stubborn beast to push around, for one thing.) There's no excuse for a broken belt, but that's what happened. Because the belt is difficult to access, the direction booklet advises you to return it to the shop to get the belt replaced. To heck with that. We're going to replace more than the belt. As soon as we can, we'll take it back and trade it in for a light-weight model.
And then the bathtub refused to drain after my shower. The lever that opened and closed the drain was frozen, leaving an inch of water standing in the tub. I pictured weeks, months with no showers in that bathroom. Fortunately, the resident handy man was able to unscrew the plate and free up the mechanism, but it will probably have to be replaced.
Everything in the house seems to be in a state of near rebellion. We need the services of professionals, and soon!
Wow! That's a lot of straws. With not much left to go wrong, hopefully that's the end of it.
ReplyDeleteHope you can get safe repairs soon!
ReplyDeleteI have not 10 minutes ago came straight to the living room after my shower and said, THAT DRIP IN THE SHOWER that has been getting worse for a year is now so bad i can hear it, i will not be able to sleep with it dripping. we need a plumber, both bathroosm have leaks and so does the kitchen sink. it started in March and was a slow leak but now is a fast one... i have a list as long as my arm of things that need repair. a few years ago, bob would have fixed all of it himself, he is past that now... we may be brave and ask a masked plumber to come, but what if he is a gun carrier. ha ha
ReplyDeleteKeeping a home maintained is constant and as you are finding out things stack up. My mother has had three upright vacuum cleaners and they were all so heavy to use. We had a barrel vacuum cleaner for thirty years and it was a pain to pull out all the time and plug it in to an extension cord to reach everywhere. For over five years now we have been using a rechargeable stick vacuuming cleaner and have never looked back. If you had young children or tramped a lot of dirt in, maybe a plug in one is best, but if your floors stay reasonably clean, a stick vacuum cleaner is great.
ReplyDeleteWe're ordering a cordless stick vacuum today. Thanks for your suggestion.
DeleteWhen it rains it pours. Now that I live alone, little things like this get to me. Most are things that Wade could have taken care of and now I have to either figure it out myself or try and find someone who will do it for me. It's always easier to try and do it myself
ReplyDeleteIs there much left to let go? I hope not! My dishwasher door lost that same part. A maintenance guy took it away to find a replacement. Then he quit. The other maintenance guy doesn't know what I'm talking about. So, bang goes the door.
ReplyDeleteI do consider home maintenance to be essential and done by essential workers. You can only live with some of these things for so long. Hopefully they'll hold until you feel comfortable letting workmen in.
ReplyDeleteWe had a repair man for something and we all wore mask.
ReplyDeleteCoffee is on and stay safe
Oh dear! It sounds like a rough beast is slouching towards Bethlehem at your house.
ReplyDeleteOh mercy, we have to have things repaired! Just have them wear the (not really scientifically effective) mask and all should be well. -smile-
ReplyDeleteWe have had them in, and we are still here.
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We had to have someone pump out a drain pump in our basement. It was done by a company with "Rooter" in the name. The tech wore a mask, as did we. I could see where, in your situation, something like that would be nerve wracking even with all parties taking precautions. Now, we have a washerless faucet dripping and we may have to resort to You Tube....fortunately, Home Depot does curbside pickup.
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