Stupid People

Do you remember me complaining about all the stupid things the precious owners of our Abingdon house did? Well, I think their cousins lived in this house. My PSA of the day: if you are going to make changes to your house, do them correctly. Yesterday was fan day. Dan went in to school to finish his in processing. While he was gone, I decided to get a head start by taking the fans down in Caden's room. The idiots who put in these fans didn't assemble the fans correctly. There's supposed to be a small arm with a ball in the end on top of the fan that sits into a cup on the brace that's secured to the ceiling. Not only did they not secure the braces to the ceiling correctly (toggles are not the correct hardware people!), they also left the arm with the ball off the fan. I took 3 of the 4 screws out of the cap and the whole fan fell on me. The electrical box should have caught it, but again, idiots, they just poked a hole in the ceiling so no electrical box to hold the wire. Needless to say, Jaelyn also got a new fan because her old one matched Caden's and I didn't want it falling on her in the middle of the night.

Dan and I have become expert fan installers, but we've decided Hunter needs to rename their "five minute fans" to "sixty-five minutes fan."

While not the fault of the previous tenants, we discovered yet another thing wrong with the house last night. We needed to disconnect the landlords washer and dryer to prepare for ours. The cold water would not turn off no matter how far down Dan cranked the knob. It's crazy. Our "plan" for now is to turn off the water to the whole house, unhook and rehook the washer, and then turn the water back on. Our handyman is coming back on Saturday. We'll be adding it to the list.

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