After a few days of rest and hectic work (the kind we're actually getting paid to do), we got back to dealing with fixing up the rat hole this weekend. We went to Target and got a little cabinet/shelf/towel bar thing to put over the toilet in the master bath so we actually have a place to put our toiletries. We had four boxes of bathroom-type stuff. One box was first aid, one box was stuff for the shower, but two boxes were just...stuff. Okay, it was mostly sunscreen and aloe gel. What can I say. I go through a lot of sunscreen in a summer. Anyway, the shelf looks sort of cute, and it holds plenty of stuff.
We also discovered that the master bathroom has an odd smell. And it's very cold in there. We close the door to conserve heat in the master bedroom, and then when we open it up to use it in the morning, it smells funny. Hello, scented candle. That seems to be doing the trick, for now.
The big event of the weekend, however, was getting the fan in the main (hallway) bathroom working. There is an existing fan (probably from the late 50's or early 60's) in the ceiling, and it works fine. The only problem is that there was a chunk of wood sitting on top of it up in the attic crawl space. Even if the wood wasn't there (it was cut to fit to the fan, by the way), the fan would just vent into the attic space. Today we ran ducting from the fan and drilled a hole into the outside attic wall, where we connected it to a louvered vent thingey. It seems to be working, too. We'll see how well it clears out the condensation after the shower tomorrow.
There were also a couple of wasps that we encountered during this procedure. One of the wasps was dead, caught in the vent at some point in time in the past, but the other was alive, flying around sluggishly until I caught it and put it outside. BIG wasp. I'm wondering if there's a nest or something up in the attic. That'd be great for when we have to clean up there this summer. Just great.
On the agenda for this week: installing the smoke and carbon monoxide detectors we purchased last week. ^_^
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