Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Work is slow

Came back from Ohio to a small bathroom remodel, but otherwise, no one is doing any changes, it seems. Any repairs have to be a major disaster in the making, fire, flood, or collapse, or it can wait until the economy improves!
Not that it is so difficult to understand the concept. In Florida, with the unemployment rate at about 11+%, things are pretty tight. The latest figure I saw in the paper said 1 of 5 houses locally are in some form of default, foreclosure, or behind on payments!! Are we ever glad to be living in a debt-free house. And no major changes being done here, either. Both family and friends struggling to stay afloat on 30-32 hours a week. The lucky ones are getting 35-40 hours, but overtime??? By the time that comes back, noone will remember what it was.
As I said, the bathroom remodel was a small job, change vanity to a shorter one, add a linen tower, little plumbing modification, and the biggest job---cutting 8 inches off of each end of the faux-marble countertop, to recenter the builtin sink. It weighed a ton, or close, but did saw readily with a diamond blade. Rather dusty job, since we used my table saw, and no wet blade, and the garage looked like a baby-powder-bomb had exploded, but it worked.
Anybody need some work done???

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