Fire place, fire sale
The fireplace work didn’t start today due to the rain. They originally rescheduled it for tomorrow but then the person scheduled for tomorrow got sick, so it’ll be Monday at the earliest. … And I just realized that means they scheduled it for Christmas, which seems weird. I’m guessing they’re going to start on Tuesday instead. Which is the same day the plumbers were planning to start on my bathroom. Oy.
Anyway, my big blue couch is finally gone, and so is my resin printer. Now I just need to do some more decluttering of my living room (and find a home for the crap that I was keeping on the surviving couch), and also figure out where the heck I’m going to keep my folding treadmill because it’s a little too tall to go under the red couch. I suppose I could prop it up by a couple inches with some riser feet or something but that feels iffy to me.
I had briefly thought I was going to maybe set up a gym space downstairs (for the treadmill and my DDR setup) but there just isn’t room for it down there either. The treadmill hasn’t really been all that enjoyable to use anyway, though, so maybe I’ll just sell it in January when everyone’s suddenly interested in getting exercise. For now it’s stashed awkwardly behind my couch, and preventing me from setting up my cozy fireplace area the way I want to.
Also, this has reminded me of the peculiar boarded-off space to the left of my fireplace:
I had always figured that this was firewood storage that had been boarded off for some reason, or perhaps it’s a firewood box that accidentally got painted shut to the wall, but Jenny Fx suggested that it might be some sort of space for a water heater for radiators, which would make some amount of sense since this house used to be oil-heated back in the day.
Regardless, it seems like a space that could be used for firewood, so I’m going to have to spend some time trying to figure out how to get it open, and depending on what’s behind it either have some new projects to worry about or decide it was better boarded shut and then do whatever repairs are necessary to put it back that way.
There isn’t anything visible from the basement or the outside of the house that indicates what it could be, in any case, and when I asked Rick about it a couple years ago he had no idea either, so I’m guessing it’s a change Linda made to the house after he sold it.
Given the amount of questionable/shoddy work I’ve had to redo after Linda lowest-biddered everything I’m sure whatever’s going on with it is surprising and possibly alarming.
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