26 January 2016

Doug finished putting in the radiant floor pans.  Shouts of joy were heard when the last one was done.  Steve started attaching PEX tubing to the installed pans.  Sonny installed MDO trim pieces below each of the three sunroom skylights and attached extension jambs to the kitchen window that was ordered (by mistake by Goodro’s) without them.  Tom continued wiring the basement.  Delores must have heard that she was going into the shop today, ‘cause she refused to start (starting battery completely dead) until I kicked her into behaving with the coach batteries.  [You’ll recall from previous episodes that the coach batteries are trickle-charged whenever Delores is plugged in to the electrical grid, but the starting battery is only recharged by the engine alternator.)  Once she was started, none of her hydraulic leveling jacks would retract… and the jack alarm was sounding continuously.  Managed to pry up all the jacks… but the jack alarm continued to sound.  Donned a pair of really good earmuffs and started for Burlington, figuring some road vibration would soon silence the alarm.  Dream on!  Once Delores was parked at Pete’s RV and the ringing in my ears had mostly subsided, Chree and I went back across town to The Lighting House on Shelburne Road, where we found several pieces that we liked, including a fixture for the foyer that we both absolutely loved.  [Go to vermontlightinghouse.com and view item CLT1714 in brushed nickel.]  From there we went back across town again to Best Tile where we met up with Bryan Arnold. After much thrashing about, Chree and I (miraculously!) agreed on tile for everywhere tile will be in the house.  Next stop was back across town yet again to The Granite Group to double-check that the tile we had chosen for the guest bathroom floor would harmonize with the colors in the neo-angle shower we ordered for that bathroom.  They did!  Then we went on to Lowe’s (‘cause I can’t come to Burlington these days without spending money there) where we checked that the tile chosen for the master and guest baths would harmonize with the vanities we have ordered.  They did!  After buying a few more electrical junction boxes, we declared victory and retired from the field of battle.