Brock's parents will be here on Friday. Or as Brock says "the most judgmental woman on the face of the planet" will be here on Friday! Brock has lost his remodeling mind!
The projects he wants done are fairly simple overall. That is the FIRST problem. There is NO simple DIY renovation. That world does not exist.
The project list include: texturing the walls, painting the walls, and if there is enough time painting the cabinets. I laugh at the list, while the list mocks Brock. We went to our local hardware store and purchased all the needed supplies and rented the texturing machine to make the process "simpler" than texturing by hand. It took Brock most of the night just getting the prep work done of covering everything that will not get textured.
Then "THE MACHINE" comes into play... Poor Brock! The guy at the hardware store helped him get the right joint compound to be able to feed it through the texture machine. Since Brock nor myself have ever used this machine and it was the hardware stores you would think they would know what product to use. Second problem, we assumed that the guy at the hardware store knew what he was talking about.
4AM Eastern standard time, Brock is dealing with joint compound drying so quickly that it is literally drying in the machine as he is putting it on the wall. He doesnt even have time to actually smooth out the texture on the walls before it dries.
5AM Eastern standard time, I am awoke to "Nik I need help!" I get up get my shower and proceed to help him scrape off the walls with the dried texture. As I type this Brock is sitting on our kitchen floor scraping out "THE MACHINE" from all of the dried joint compound.
His plan now is to return to the store when they open and proceed to tell them our Renovation Reality and pray that we are not out the $40 in rental cost just to pay another $40 in rental cost over something one of the employees informed us wrong about.
Renovations are CRAZY at it is. We try to trust people at the stores because they are suppose to be knowledgeable about the products they sale and or about the equipment they rent out. To be honest though, with this down economy, I think they hire anyone that desperately needs a job and will show up to work on time! I am thinking about applying in the electrical department (I have ZERO electrical experience) and tell customers whatever I want. Hey a little extra cash coming in never hurt anyone!
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