Small victories

I flushed a toilet today.   It's amazing how much work it took to complete such a simple little task.  All of our pipes are installed.   The cold water ones are working (hence the flushing toilet), the hot water ones are done but need to be checked, the heating system ones are in, but one radiator still needs to be worked on before that can be turned on.

Our contractor checked the heaters and neither are working.  They look fixable, but it's going to take an extra day and maybe some more cash thrown at it.

And the toilet that flushed showed us that we have a small leak in the sewer line so thats going to need to be fixed as well.

I'm not too surprised at these little hiccups.  I sort of expected them.  Just so long as they get fixed as we find them and we don't find too many.

Meanwhile, we're still busy painting.   I removed a couple of the radiators, just because there was so many years worth of dirt and crud behind them.  As I was cleaning one off, I noticed some of the paint had come away on the back side, so I repainted it with some high-temp engine paint. 

Today I spent the entire morning tidying up, then cleaned all the floorboards which I just couldn't stand to look at any longer (we've been cleaning rooms as we get ready to paint them - but just walking past the gunked up trim in the other rooms was driving me a bit nuts).   Then I painted a couple closets and called it a day.