dust, dust and more dust
September 29th, 2009 -- Posted in | No Comments »I can’t stand all the dust that this home addition is creating. My husband and I have come to terms that we will hire a cleaning service to clean our house top to bottom once all this remodeling is done. I completely forgot all the dirt that is entailed with re-doing the pipes under the house. The constant tromping underneath the house by 3-5 guys and even though there is painters plastic taped and laid upon the floor, the dust and dirt still gets everywhere. You can’t vacuum enough, you can’t swiffer enough and you can’t clean enough to be satisfied. Our poor white socks turn tan to a light brown even after walking around after what we thought was a clean floor. Ugh! I can’t complain and vent enough about all the dust. I am going mad. To top it off, there are dirty hand prints, dirt marks from accidental rub ins with walls, door knobs, markings on my clothes. The whole countertop is dirty, it literally feels like walking on the beach on the floors in our house before and after a good sweep or vacuum. It’s actually disgusting me more as the days roll on. I just wish they would be done with the pipes under the house this week so we can move on and clean the grime that has accumulated in the beautiful tile floor that my husband laid and the beautiful wood floors. Hopefully not too many tiny dirt particles are clinging to the tiny tiny crevices in between our nice Bamboo 3/4 inch solid wood floors. I scour when I come home to a dirty house and people still under the house stirring up dirt.
I have to keep positive knowing that our galvanized steel pipes will all be copper and the water will get hot faster and the water pressure will be more. No more thumping of the toilet in the hall bathroom. No more filling a 5 gallon bucket of water waiting for it to get hot prior to taking my morning shower. No more filling 3-4 pitchers of cold water in the kitchen sink just to get warm water to wash the dishes. As many of are reading this, you are realizing that you don’t have it this bad and that you are living in a home/apartment that wasn’t built back in 1962 where the plumbing is poor and getting hot water from any faucet in your home in less than 10 seconds is amazing!