Today we had to go about the whole messy business of getting the ducts cleaned.
First off, never, ever, ever use Home Best to get your ducts cleaned. they advertise in the Penny Saver a lot. The price on the ad is '$79.95 for unlimited ducts'. Somehow the price escalated to $600 when they got there. 'Oh, because that doesn't cover cleaning the furnace, or the intake or the main ducts, or sanitation.' The guy tried to use double-talk and high pressure sell to get me to pay an outrageous amount of money for a glorified vacuuming (I'll discuss the actual services in a moment). If we didn't need this done to move in I would have told him to 'get out'. They lower the price to a meager $430, an amount I would have still been unwilling to pay (Tony did).
What they actually did was run what looked like an industrial sized duster on the end of a power drill into the vents, spun it (on the drill) and kick up the dust in the vents everywhere. And when I say dust everywhere I mean dust everywhere. Then they vacuumed the ducts out with a regular old shop vac. And, even after we told them that we just did construction and to expect dry wall, they told us that the sheet rock was 'plaster' and it was 'meant to insulate the ducts'.
Look, I know we're stupid for paying you guys that much money to do this crap, but we're not idiots.
Anyway, they did their thing and left. There was dust still in the air so I thought it was a bad idea to put down polyurethane. Eluded me again, have you floors! I did all of the touch up painting for the hall and the bedroom and then had to blow 2 and a half hours waiting for a ride. So I decided to raid the basement.
All my dishes and pots! I haven't seen that shit in years... or months. It kind of feels like years with my living situation. They say that packing is a bitch. But unpacking is fun! I think I got about half of the kitchen unpacked.
Yeah, I haven't taken pictures of the floor yet, but I took pictures of my dishes. Everyone has their priorities, I guess.
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