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which_chick) wrote2008-04-05 12:32 am
which_chick) wrote2008-04-05 12:32 am
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I had a day today.
I went to work. I got the stuff for building the basement door and the stuff for doing the carpets. I started doing the carpets.
The phone rang. 351 is having hot water heater issues. I go look at the hot water issues. The controller thingie is dead. (You can see the melted plastic and see the singe marks and stuff. Hot water is getting too hot, popping the pressure valve on the water heater. Solution: replace controller thingie.) Hardware store in that town has no appropriate controller thingie. Drive back to the first town, get controller thingie. Install.
Eat lunch (early). Go do carpets. Build basement door (opens, closes, is sturdy. Is not particularly attractive.) and install same. Return carpet shampoo machine. Go to post office, mail off federal return plus 4.4K in owed tax. (I R GOOD CITIZEN.) Go home. Make popcorn, sit down with computer. Phone rings before I've eaten all the popcorn. 351 "smells burning" and "is worried" about the water heater thing. I drive back into town, look at the water heater. It is not melting anything. It is not burning anything. It is not leaking hot water on the ground. Everything is fine, my tenants are mental.
While I'm there, I stop in two doors down and dun Tenant R (he of the three small kids and the limited income) for the rent so that he won't owe a penalty. If he pays after the fifth, he will owe a penalty, so it is to his benefit to pay ahead of the fifth. He paid. He also said that the roof was leaking. At the top of the stairs, there, you can look up and see the sky. No wonder it's leaking, say I. Do we want to have a roof guy look at this? I danced around the issue with Tenant R but my basic view is that if the man is paying rent, he should have a roof that doesn't leak.
I went back and checked (again) on 351's water heater, which was still fine, no change from how it had looked when I'd left it at 11 AM this morning. And also it was happily making hot water.
I drove home again. When I got home (after 7 PM) the phone was blinking. It was 349, the apartment above 351, who said that his stove, it no workie. At all. I was just fucking there, damn it all. Pity he didn't look out the window. Anyway, I am hoping like hell that this is a dipshit fuse problem. Now, I asked tenant if he'd poked the fuses. He said he had asked the tenant downstairs to flop the breakers (his fusebox is in the downstairs tenant's apartment) and that his power all went off and then went back on... except for the stove which continued to not-work all along the whole time. It is my considered opinion that the downstairs tenant cannot work a breaker box to save her skin. I'm going in to look at the stove issue tomorrow morning at 8 AM. Happy birthday to me.
I went to work. I got the stuff for building the basement door and the stuff for doing the carpets. I started doing the carpets.
The phone rang. 351 is having hot water heater issues. I go look at the hot water issues. The controller thingie is dead. (You can see the melted plastic and see the singe marks and stuff. Hot water is getting too hot, popping the pressure valve on the water heater. Solution: replace controller thingie.) Hardware store in that town has no appropriate controller thingie. Drive back to the first town, get controller thingie. Install.
Eat lunch (early). Go do carpets. Build basement door (opens, closes, is sturdy. Is not particularly attractive.) and install same. Return carpet shampoo machine. Go to post office, mail off federal return plus 4.4K in owed tax. (I R GOOD CITIZEN.) Go home. Make popcorn, sit down with computer. Phone rings before I've eaten all the popcorn. 351 "smells burning" and "is worried" about the water heater thing. I drive back into town, look at the water heater. It is not melting anything. It is not burning anything. It is not leaking hot water on the ground. Everything is fine, my tenants are mental.
While I'm there, I stop in two doors down and dun Tenant R (he of the three small kids and the limited income) for the rent so that he won't owe a penalty. If he pays after the fifth, he will owe a penalty, so it is to his benefit to pay ahead of the fifth. He paid. He also said that the roof was leaking. At the top of the stairs, there, you can look up and see the sky. No wonder it's leaking, say I. Do we want to have a roof guy look at this? I danced around the issue with Tenant R but my basic view is that if the man is paying rent, he should have a roof that doesn't leak.
I went back and checked (again) on 351's water heater, which was still fine, no change from how it had looked when I'd left it at 11 AM this morning. And also it was happily making hot water.
I drove home again. When I got home (after 7 PM) the phone was blinking. It was 349, the apartment above 351, who said that his stove, it no workie. At all. I was just fucking there, damn it all. Pity he didn't look out the window. Anyway, I am hoping like hell that this is a dipshit fuse problem. Now, I asked tenant if he'd poked the fuses. He said he had asked the tenant downstairs to flop the breakers (his fusebox is in the downstairs tenant's apartment) and that his power all went off and then went back on... except for the stove which continued to not-work all along the whole time. It is my considered opinion that the downstairs tenant cannot work a breaker box to save her skin. I'm going in to look at the stove issue tomorrow morning at 8 AM. Happy birthday to me.
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When the fuse for the stove was turned on, the stove worked a lot better.
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I still haven't done my taxes yet. :(
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Also, I have to put Tenant's ceiling back up after half of it fell down during water heater overheating stuff -- that'll be Monday at work. Yay?
feh