It sounded worse than it was. When all was said and done, the only new damage was a slightly buggered up kitchen switch. The crew actually went above and beyond on some things, like removing the old wires in the attic. For the first time, it doesn't look like a Rube Goldberg nightmare up there.
We are knob and tube free. Yea. Probably one of the few old houses in Seattle that is. John gets all the credit for managing the project to the finish line and insisting (in a nice way) that it was done completely. It helped that he and the journeyman electrician seemed to speak the same language. Very "literal" and engineering-wired minds, shall we say? He probably encountered many such personalities during his long career at Boeing.
Anyway, on to other projects. The house is filthy, by the way. You can hardly see out of the windows, but I'm not getting excited about it until September. The wall repairs are scheduled for next Thursday, hopefully in one day.
Mr. Nguyen also cuts the hedge next week, and an arborist comes to give an estimate on the holly and palm tree trimming. Sometime I need to call the "Deck Guru" and "Sir Grout" companies. What a money pit! You have to be crazy to retire in a "charming old house."
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