My amusement at the bathroom debacle starting to wear thin, I've compiled a diary of the renovations done to date on the bathroom.
- Day -2 - Get permission to make measurements on Bathroom.
- Day -1 - Get permission to make the measurements on the bathroom. Again. Leave pencil marks on wall.
- Day 0 - Say you'll start the next day. It will probably take a week you estimate. Ask for advance cheque.
- Day 1 - Completely gut bathroom shelves, remove sink, mirror, lighting fixtures.
- Day 2 - Draw some lines on the wall.
- Day 3 - Cut holes in drywall
- Day 4 - Draw more lines on wall. Patch some holes in drywall.
- Day 5 - Place 2X4 in hole where shelves used to be. Sand patches of drywall. Draw lines on floor.
- Day 6 - Sand patches of drywall. Place drywall tape. Move tools from room to room. Erase lines on floor, draw more lines on floor.
- Day 7 - Lay tile on floor.
Now this brings us to current. The walls are still unfinished, grouting not done on tile, no sign of a sink, lighting fixtures, the abundant promised shelves, I'm starting to seriously doubt the quoted timeline of a week.
But there's inspiration - knowing that, even as things proceed, it will get done. In fact, if I had the flowchart of renovations and was willing to voluntarily undergo the inconvenience of renovations, I could have done all of the above daily in the time I'm waiting for my coffee to perk. It's the rewards of consistent, albeit tiny, effort, (and great and heroic sacrifice on the behalf of the tenant, but this is irrelevant...) the same advice financial planners are always giving their clients, with a mere grain of sand a day in time you too could build the pyramids....