Preventatives

[legalmoose]

I don't think the previous owners of this townhouse knew the meaning of the words "preventative maintenance". At least not based on all the hair and gunk we've cleaned out of the various sink and shower traps (ewww), and the water staining I've scrubbed off the nozzle of the kitchen faucet. And now, on the amount of lint in the dryer vent. The dryer has always run slow, and we've said we were going to replace it once the cult co-op sold (which it still hasn't done *sigh*), but after cleaning as much of the inside of the vent next to the dryer as well as we could and seeing how much lint was in there, we finally called a company to have them come do the whole vent to the outside (which vents outside near the top of the third story), which they're scheduled to do tomorrow. Am betting the dryer will magically work properly, or closer to properly, once it can vent like it's supposed to. Because there's probably 11 years of lint in the line that's blocking the exhaust from getting out. Just like the hair clogged the sinks.

Kids, maintain your shit. It'll work better if you do.

Other than that, we got new sliding blinds for the upstairs loft room off the husband's office. The cleaning person killed the slider on the vertical blinds that the husband hated, so we used that as an excuse to get something he'd prefer. Those got installed today and they look much, much better. Tomorrow will be the acid test when the morning sun is hitting them, but since we already had window film put on those sliding glass doors, I think it'll be fine.

In the meantime I got a robo call from the power company that tomorrow is a peak savings day; if we reduce our electricity use we get credits on the bill for helping them manage demand. So we may take off early tomorrow, close up all the shades, unplug a bunch of electronics, set the thermostats to "away", and wander out into the world. And see if that gets us any credits with the power company. If nothing else it's a good excuse to get out of the house.

Got to play some Animal Crossing tonight with the nieces on both sides of the family. There was a shooting star event on my island, so I invited all the girls over to wish on the stars and get DIY recipes from the giant space chicken Celeste. They seemed to have fun with it, as they usually do when I open up for online play. And I certainly enjoyed "seeing" them in the game.

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[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

We found some things like that when we moved in here - we try to do all those jobs regularly now :)

I'm very glad we have a condenser drier so no need for external vents like that.