Comments on: Let Me Level With You http://www.zanthan.com/wordsintobytes/old-house/kitchen-remodel/let-me-level-with-you The surface and beneath the surface Sun, 10 Apr 2011 15:23:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: M2 http://www.zanthan.com/wordsintobytes/old-house/kitchen-remodel/let-me-level-with-you/comment-page-1#comment-16 M2 Mon, 19 Dec 2005 17:21:46 +0000 http://www.zanthan.com/wordsintobytes/uncategorized/let-me-level-with-you#comment-16 I *love* the ungrounded grounding wire. I may have posted this before, but the first time I knew that AJM was right for you, was when you complained about the kitchen, and he said in an enthusiastic tone: "But you're suffering for ART!" <p class="reply"> Your story was coming up in the next post. It was the hexagonal tiles that AJM admired. And I said he wouldn't like them if he had to try to keep the grout clean. When he was smashing them to bits yesterday, I said to him, "Poor, M2. She'll be so disappointed. In her mind, these tiles sealed our relationship." So I saved one as a keepsake. -- mss </p> I *love* the ungrounded grounding wire.

I may have posted this before, but the first time I knew that AJM was right for you, was when you complained about the kitchen, and he said in an enthusiastic tone: “But you’re suffering for ART!”

Your story was coming up in the next post. It was the hexagonal tiles that AJM admired. And I said he wouldn’t like them if he had to try to keep the grout clean. When he was smashing them to bits yesterday, I said to him, “Poor, M2. She’ll be so disappointed. In her mind, these tiles sealed our relationship.” So I saved one as a keepsake. — mss

]]> By: bill http://www.zanthan.com/wordsintobytes/old-house/kitchen-remodel/let-me-level-with-you/comment-page-1#comment-15 bill Sun, 18 Dec 2005 20:12:34 +0000 http://www.zanthan.com/wordsintobytes/uncategorized/let-me-level-with-you#comment-15 Have fun! We did this about four years ago in our kitchen, which looks to be about the same age as yours (1946). It took longer than expected. Personally I count it as one of my favorite adventures. However Tricia really complained about washing dishes in the bathroom. <p class="reply"> The tax records say that the house was built in 1949, but other documents put it at 1946. The pipes connected to an old in-the-counter dishwasher that was removed before I bought the house in 1993. Now I know how all those cockroaches get in. </p> <p class="reply"> See the wire hanging to the left of those pipes? Apparently that's the ground wire for the electrical outlet. I've never known it was dangling there, not grounded to anything, all these years. Makes me wonder why we haven't had an electrical fire yet. -- mss </p> Have fun! We did this about four years ago in our kitchen, which looks to be about the same age as yours (1946). It took longer than expected. Personally I count it as one of my favorite adventures. However Tricia really complained about washing dishes in the bathroom.

The tax records say that the house was built in 1949, but other documents put it at 1946. The pipes connected to an old in-the-counter dishwasher that was removed before I bought the house in 1993. Now I know how all those cockroaches get in.

See the wire hanging to the left of those pipes? Apparently that’s the ground wire for the electrical outlet. I’ve never known it was dangling there, not grounded to anything, all these years. Makes me wonder why we haven’t had an electrical fire yet. — mss

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