Early August, Architects and Engineers


Food Mood: the neighbours cook



Reno Ridiculouso: Careful thought, careful emails, lawyers looming

Following the debacle, Kiddo and I return to the house and I start assessing with the Hubby.
The Architect is called and his Engineer is called too (money, money, money)and the city inspector.
The poor city inspector comes two days after THE DEBACLE and damn, he is trying so hard to be kind. Inspector: So, uh, listen buddy.  I know that this is a big project and you’re working really hard on it and I don’t wanna, like, burst your bubble, but man, I got some concerns about how the addition is supported.    Hubby: ‘Ya Think?!

And then Hubby explains to him that we fully know and the inspectors role is to provide the report so that we can give it and the Architects and Engineers reports to Bull $$%^$ Talker to reinforce Hubby’s statements about what must be done to repair this insanity.  

We get the reports, all of which say it’s a nightmare and must be redone and we begin a slow and careful email exchange (never on the phone) with Bull Talker via the Architect to try and find a solution.  Keep in mind that Bull Talker has a lot of our money, with an unfinished addition that he’s claiming is finished. Before you think scornful we could have done this better thoughts (ya know that ya were J ), yes Bull Talker was being paid in installments.  But the roofing and framing installment was alotta (official term) cash and was payable at the beginning of that section. So, there ya go.

In an awesome act of sympathy our neighbours feed us all for the majority of the next two weeks.  Without reference to why, or sympathy statements or anything that would make it worse, they just listen to the Hubby and I and feed us.

The picture is of Connie Noodles.  An indian/thai/philippino fusion of noodles, egg, shrimp, cabbage and some kind of spice.  Made by Connie, bless her! 
Hello! Thanks for stopping by to check out my recipes and commiserate with my (our) misery. Misery loves company! I live in Toronto with my husband and little girl. We have spent a year (yep, that's right, renovating our home) About seven months into this crazy renovation I thought to myself, this has got to be funny or it will be pathetic! And so, I have chosen for funny! This is my collection of mostly crockpot (although sometimes not) recipes paired with the days (weeks, months) that inspired them. Please share your best reno stories and crockpot recipes too.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Biblical Plagues and the Doors Part Three

Image
Food Mood : Steak Salad, ‘Cause I needs my energy for this b&^lsh*%t Reno Ridiculouso : Little to Report It’s now the last week in August and we’re still in limbo. Bull Talker Contractor has come back and said he’ll return to the job but won’t take down the work that he’s done (reminder, beams laid the wrong way, walls to high).   The Architect and The Engineer have come up with a safe way to attach the current structure and stabilize it without taking it down.  But we aren’t happy.   Bull Talkers random decision making has led to the destruction of our daughters back yard view.   And, frankly, we aren’t sure that we can put up with working with him anymore.   But it’s Toronto and you don’t fire contractors lightly because it took us six months just to find him in the first place.    Side Rant: Anyone else in the Big Smoke noticing that this lack of contractors and excess of work lets contracting companies get away with the...
Read more

Second Week in June: TPZ

Image
Food Mood: Feelin’ Soupy Reno Ridiculouso: The Trees, Who Will Think of the Trees!   (place hand ringing here) This week we finally broke ground.   This took a monumental effort on the part of The Architect and the Hubby to get everything through the City of Toronto permits process.   Like most places, I assume, the T dot (the Big Smoke? The Six?   What are we calling it these days?) has all kinds of rules.   Everything from the ratio of green space to built structure, which way your windows face relative to neighbours, etc.   But, most importantly the last few weeks has been THE DREADED TPZ!!!     The TPZ is the tree protection zone. In Toronto you have to install a tree protection zone if any of your construction (including bin locations) is within a few metres of an existing tree.   It’s to preserve trees, and I’m for it, I think it’s good.   However, each TPZ must be registered and you have to deposit big ...
Read more

Subfloors and Pho

Reno Ridiculouso: Full Speed Ahead and Damn the Torpedos! Food Mood: Pho and doughnuts in the sun In March my brother-in-law lets us know that he’ll be coming for four days to help the hard-working Hubby to lay the tile and possibly even install the kitchen cabinets (let’s not get overly optimistic here people, it’s never served us before!).   And so, The Hubby advances into hyper speed.   The drywall gets finished, everything painted, the basement stair steps begin to be realigned, the sub floor gets laid in the kitchen and dining room. Whoo Hoo!   And then The Hubby turns his eyes to our wee powder room, which we’ve mostly been completely ignoring in the favour of spaces that we need right away, like, say, THE GD KITCHEN!    The powder room was our very ill placed ( a good 15 feet down the hallway from the main entrance) closet up until recently, when we stole 3 feet from the kitchen to create a main floor powder room.   It’s the only a...
Read more