Craigslist Fridge Buying Fun May 15, 2008
Posted by rob in : Appliances , 1 comment so farI gave craigslist a quick shot to see if I could find a fridge on the cheap. There are plenty of people out there with “Extra” fridges or “remodel canceled” fridges. So I contacted a few people to see about buying their fridge, but I was not prepared for his salesmanship. He is offering up a fridge that lists for $2300 that is brand new in the box. He paid $2350 four months ago and will sell it for $1600 obo. It is a black 36″ wide full depth fridge. The market for this size and color is small. Maybe even limited to just us. Everyone wants counter depth stainless. I offer him $1000 cash money and it goes sideways from there:
Jeff Jensen <hawkfannw@yahoo.com> wrote: If you could find one for $1800 (which I know you can’t, $2099 plus tax) Go ahead and pay $1800 plus tax, for a one year warranty you won’t need. It will still be $400 more than what I am asking! Also, before you say it…Online is $1889 plus $169 for shipping and you will get it in about 6 weeks. You’re a MORON AND I’M NOT INTERESTED!
Rob McGarty wrote: 10% off home depot or lowes card that shows up in the mail every few months knocks the $200 off and then you are at $1800.
Jeff Jensen <hawkfannw@yahoo.com> wrote:
Here is the link to Home Depot that says they are $2249 (-10% = $2024 + tax = $2202). http://www.homedepot.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?jspStoreDir=hdus&catalogId=10053&productId=100614873&navFlow=3&keyword=pfsf6pkwbb&langId=-1&searchRedirect=pfsf6pkwbb&storeId=10051&endecaDataBean=com.homedepot.sa.el.wc.catalog.beans.EndecaDataBean%40229bd562&ddkey=Search Still a moron!
Rob McGarty wrote:
Moron? Why do you have to resort to calling names? You are the one that bought a fridge to sit in your garage for months and have been posting it on craigslist multiple times. Good luck with that fridge.
Jeff Jensen <hawkfannw@yahoo.com> wrote to rob
I’ve posted it for a week dip shit! Last time I checked CL is FREE and I paid wholesale for my fridge, so I will make a few bucks when I do sell! Have fun paying FULL PRICE for your Home Depot refrigecrapper…MORON!-
Fridge Foul Play
Posted by rob in : Appliances , add a commentAs I mentioned, the fridge no longer works. It blows the circuit once you switch on the fridge part via the temperature control. The light will come on, but once you turn the dial it blow the circuit breaker. I tried three different circuits and they all met the same demise. The odd thing is the fridge was working fine the whole time–on the same circuits until it sat outside for a few weeks. I wonder if something got corroded and created a short.
I hit my favorite appliance repair website up for all the parts available for my Roper model RB22CKXYL00 fridge. And found that there are only a couple of parts that could possibly go bad–the compressor, condenser fan, run capacitor, and the start device. If it is the compressor, I am out. The part is almost $300 and then I will have to deal with the refrigerant. If it is one of the other parts we should be good to go.
I searched high and low for a service manual, but the best I could come up with is the owners manual.
I will try and hot wire the compressor and see if I can get it to run, otherwise we will have to toss it out the kitchen door to nowhere and live out of the ARB fridge until we get a new one.
Move in Success!
Posted by rob in : Moving , 1 comment so farAmanda and Mark spent all day yesterday schlepping our junk from Fini to the new house. The die was cast and we slept camped in the new house. I say that because we still don’t have running water in the living space–the only working sink is in the basement. Amanda tried to pick up our faucet at Keller Supply yesterday, but got there as they were closing and they couldn’t find it. We also don’t have any functional appliances. I cleaned and moved the old fridge (that I had been using to keep the beer and red bull cold while we worked on the house) back inside only to find out that it croaked and blows the breaker when you turn it on.
We couldn’t find our sheets, so we pulled the duvet cover off our comforter and used that as a sheet on top of the poop mattress and called it good. I ran to the quicky mart and grabbed a six pack of beer and we watched the end of the sunset from our bedroom and unpacked a little and called it a night.
It was really cool to finally spend a night in our new house after making mortgage payments on it for seven months. Speaking of which I need to pay that today…yikes.
Mattress Wicking Power May 12, 2008
Posted by rob in : Plumbing, Moving , add a commentRemember back to the sewer shower? Well, we finally moved all that furniture into the house this weekend. Turns out most items really weren’t impacted by the disaster, but our mattress showed signs of some kind of water damage, but it doesn’t make any sense because the part of the mattress that was resting on the ground (wrapped in plastic) is clean, but there is a line about 10-12″ up from the bottom that looks like it was probably part of the fecal water tidal wave, but I am not convinced. I am going to take the bleach spritzing, mattress pad one-two punch for the win.
Speaking of the mattress, it sure was a blast getting a king size mattress upstairs. I knew it was going to be a tight fit because the stair height is a little low at the bottom because of they maximized space upstairs. I had an idea to taco the mattress with ratchet straps, but I was busy working on the island with Joel while the moving crew got it to the stairs. After getting stuck in the stairs, I got called in and Mark and I were able to manually taco the mattress and jam it through. After that tight spot, it fit like a glove.
Master Bath Tile Complete
Posted by rob in : Tile, Master Bathroom , 1 comment so farRyan and Vince finished up the master bath tile install on Friday and spent most of Saturday grouting. The place looks amazing! The color combination Amanda picked out along with my layout and ideas really made for a bathroom fit for a king. I can’t wait to get the shower enclosure, vanity and fixtures installed.
Here are some shots of the newly installed tile:
Close, but no cigar…
Posted by rob in : Moving , 1 comment so farWe made a valiant effort, but even with the help of Joel, Polly, Mark and Alex we were unable to get the place into move in shape on Mother’s Day. We moved almost all of the furniture from the basement to the living spaces. We got most of the rooms cleaned of construction debris. We got switch plate covers over all the outlets and switches. We got the oven and dishwasher installed. We are just about there. We just need running water on the main floor and we will be move in ready.
In the spirit of one of my favorite blogs (thank Polly!) I present the images that summarize the weekend.
Mother’s Day Move In May 8, 2008
Posted by rob in : Uncategorized , add a commentWe are planning to celebrate mother’s day by hiring a sitter and moving our furniture from the basement into the house. We will be roughing it for a little while as there won’t be a kitchen and the bathrooms may or may not have fixtures, but we have the spare kitchen in the basement to get us by.
Saturday will be spent getting Joel’s linen closed installed in the morning and then hopefully getting him to lend a hand fiddling with the kitchen–installing the plumbing stops, plywood for the sinks, cabinet alignment, electrical boxes in the cabinets, Bosch 500 series dishwasher install. And then moving onto bath fixtures, electrical trim, etc. Then Sunday we will get the furniture upstairs and start cleaning the house and furniture since it all has a nasty coating of construction dust on it. We don’t know if we will actually be able to spend the night there on Sunday, but we would like to get the place all staged and ready to go just in case everything lines up for us.
As of now, Young is done painting the place (with the exception of the master bathroom), Ryan should be done sticking tiles tomorrow and will install the grout on Saturday and then he is done. Expert Marble and Granite will be out early next week to install the counters and then it is up to us to get the rest of the little stuff done.
Then there is the deck…we still need to get the deck built, but we have been holding off until the tile guys are done because they have been using it as a mixing area for thinset, grout and SLC. But that is something we can tackle well after we move in.
Tile Ho!
Posted by rob in : Tile, Master Bathroom , add a commentRyan and Vince are making great progress on the master bathroom. Here is where we were as of this morning. Hopefully they will have all the shower enclosure stuck today and maybe even the rest of the tub deck. It is amazing how much bigger the place is starting to look with tile on the walls.
Soon I will have the measurements for the shower door. The company that we are going to order the glass shower enclosure from is called Holcam and their slogan is “Get The Shower Door You Really Want” which is very similar to the Filson slogan “Might as well have the best.” We are looking at the Holcam EL-45 model. They don’t have the installation instructions on the web, but I called them and they emailed me a scanned version of the instructions. I think they need to invest in the “Website they really need.”
Cooktop Cutout
Posted by rob in : countertops , add a commentTanner from Expert Marble and Granite came out early this morning to add the cooktop cutout to the island template. For him it was a wham bam type operation, but a little stressful for me as this was literally setting the cooktop location in stone. So we set his template on top of my booty fab cutout that Matt and I made the other night and he traced it.
Then we dropped the cooktop and downdraft in the hole to double check. With the blower unit off the downdraft it was much easier to move–speaking of which the Wolf guy still hasn’t called me back.
After we tested it I just a quick double check of the measurements and they all looked good, except the diagonals which were off about 3/16″. I was stressing it a little, but Tanner assured me that it will be fine and there is plenty of slop in the opening to lose the 3/16″.
After they were done I raced to Ferguson to grab my faucets and stop by the Expert Marble and Granite shop (it was pretty much across the street). Tanner was already back at the shop onto his next project. I got so see the shop in action, my slabs and Bernard gave me tour of the offices. He is a super nice guy and runs a great business. I can’t wait for the final installation to really start raving about him.
Wacky Wolf Appliance Quirks May 7, 2008
Posted by rob in : RTFM, countertops, Appliances, Kitchen , add a commentWhen Bernard and crew came by on Monday to template the counters, they skipped the cooktop and downdraft because they wanted me to position it where I wanted it and then they would come back to and get a take off. He said the tolerances were too tight on those things and he wanted to make sure it was right.
I had skimmed the installation instructions and thought everything was covered, but when I actually carefully read the instructions we hit a few snags. Like the measurement we used for the downdraft cutout out of the base cabinet wasn’t in the exact right location front to back. We should have been ok side to side, because the downdraft claims to have seven inches of adjustment. But as Matt and I found out last night, there is a flaw in their design that is limiting it to a quarter inch of movement side to side.
The downdraft also calls for 1 3/4″ clearance between the back of it and the front of the back of the cabinet. This is impossible because a standard 24″ cabinet only has 22 3/4″ of interior space. The Wolf CT36G cooktop takes up 19 1/4 and the Wolf DD36I downdraft takes up 2 3/4 for a total of 22″. That is only 3/4″ of space left over. There is no way to eek out 1 3/4″ behind the downdraft–even with cutting out the back of the cabinet like we had to do for the oven.
I called Wolf this morning and they said don’t worry about it–the reason for the spacing was to allow room for the downdraft to go up and down if you were against a wall. Since we are on an island with an acre of counters behind it we are good to go. I asked them about the side to side adjustment and they were baffled. They are supposed to call me back, but no response today. I think this is going to be a job for the Metabo.