Well, I spent a couple of days earlier this week painting. I am so glad that the project is coming along so well. I am liking the color although the first day I was experiencing, the shock of change as you usually do when you paint a room. It is such a large bathroom, the brown really warms it up and I am happy with the results. So yesterday I decided to install the towel bars. As you can see by the picture, the ring towel bars at each end of the vanity look great!
I then decided to install the large bath towel bar. I started by measuring carefully, and deciding where I wanted to install it. This part always drives Tom crazy because I am kind of anal about these things. So after much consideration and measuring I installed the right hand side. Doesn't it look lovely! I then decided I better get the level to make sure that it looks nice and I mark the points for the left side of the towel bar. I get the hammer to start the anchor for the first of three that I need to put in the wall. I hit it and all of a sudden I hear a hissing and gas starts blowing out of the wall. You can pretty much, guess the word I used, thank god that it wasn't a water pipe. For those of you that can't guess it was the pipe that the freon for the air conditioner runs through. Yes the freon is escaping and what is a girl to do. I started freaking a little, because my initial thought was that it was freon, but our gas meter is right next to the air conditioner. I then calmed my self down, and convinced myself it wasn't gas because there was no oder and gas pipes are steel and my little anchor would not have penetrated a steel pipe. So, I call Tom at work, and he says calmly, the gas will stop soon and we will just have to get it repaired. When he came home from work, we ate dinner and they he sweetly said, "Do you want me to take a look at that". We cut a hole so that he can solder the leak and he has someone at work that can recharge the system. I am so lucky to have such a sweet guy! So I now have to wait for the repair and recharge before I can start patching, mudding, sanding and painting all over again. The circle of life isn't it great!
Was Tom cool calm and collected when you told him what you did? I bet it scared the S....out of you. I like your Blog. The quilts are amazing!
ReplyDeleteHe really was very nice, and said it will eventually stop hissing. I helped him do the patch this morning. All went well and we didn't start a fire so things are looking up! He now has to test the system and as soon as it warms up enough we will get the system recharged!
ReplyDeleteI really the brown. Somehow, I was imagining an even darker, redder brown. This is really nice. I would say "milk chocolate."
ReplyDeleteMy camera doesn't do a very good job with the color, I didn't use a flash, but it is still hard to get accurate color, but you are right it made me think of melted chocolate ice cream when I was painting and I kept wanting to take a big lick. I usually don't have that desire when I paint so it had to be the color.
ReplyDeleteYikes! That's my worst nightmare whenever I start drilling into walls!
ReplyDeleteIsn't there some kind of gadget that would detect pipes behind walls? like a stud-finder finds beams?
Yeah, In fact we have one. I thought about electrical wires and water pipes but I know none were on this wall. I didn't realize air conditioner freon runs through the wall in a copper pipe. As they say, you never stop learning.
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