We were super excited to see the septic tank IN THE GROUND, only to have the moment spoiled by our neighbour who is pissed that it's not *enough* into the ground and is changing the grade and yadayada.
For the Love. Of. God. In his defense, the grade IS crazy, and there's now a steep slope down into his yard.
So now we're making Dave the digger man angry by asking too many questions and changing things after the fact. When in reality, we were never consulted in the first place, it was the builder and Dave making unilateral decisions.
Turns out they also never dug up the concrete under the bunky, they just covered it over, and that's why the septic has to be as high as it is. But they somehow have to dig down to install footings for the bunky, so how is that going to happen with a concrete slab buried under 2 feet of soil?! *Exasperation* so we're going to be paying them to rectify their fool mistake. *Livid*
I was shocked that the septic is right smack in the middle of our most heavily-used part of the property: our precious lanai, the only cool spot on the hottest day. But apparently that's the only place it could go, because our lot is too hilly? What do i know.
In interior news, because I just CANNOT with the outside news anymore, we got nearly nothing done. The sink-side wall of the kitchen was mapped for cabinets, spackled, sanded, primed, spackled, sanded, and painted but no cabinets went in on that side.
Our woodstove now vents to the outside, but the chimney zig zags across the room in front of a window. It looks Seussian, tbh, but this cottage is nothing if not a litany of "things that aren't the way I wanted them at all". Maybe now the scaffolding can go away?
On the fridge side, we got 3 lower cabinets assembled but not installed, the cover panel for the fridge cut to size, and three of the upper cabinets screwed together. We hit a speed bump when the over-the-fridge cabinet wasn't lining up front-to-back with the fridge cover panel, and now we have to back track to figure out why, fix it, and hopefully forge ahead again. It's impossible to clamp between the fridge and the 15" upper cabinets, so, *puzzle*.
On the plus side, we have all the cabinet frames and cover panels, and are now just waiting on the lower cabinets drawers to come back in stock, purportedly next week.
We then got utterly smoked out by our other-side neighbours who thought a windless day was the perfect time to burn wet leaves and branches. We had to close all the windows to the cottage, and it was stifling.
I'm developing a persecution complex.
And you wonder why I hate people.
Cottage is becoming a four-letter word, too: C-O-T-J.
DinoStomp
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