So after what seemed like forEVER, we finally, FINALLY have kitchen appliances. Yay!! After more than nine weeks on order and in shipment, they arrived yesterday. I was more than a bit apprehensive to see the damage to the cardboard shipping boxes. They were pretty shredded in places. My worst nightmare would have been if the appliances had been damaged in shipment, and would have to be sent back. But I opened and examined each item while the trucking company guys stood there waiting. The Vendor had been very specific, that if I accepted them without noting any damage, I was on the hook for any repairs. Luckily, nothing was damaged. Makes me very glad for little miracles.
Then, this morning at 8:00 prompt, a local company I'd hired arrived to install the appliances for me. New challenges: I hadn't considered that these were new and improved, 2020-year appliances, and the house has 12 year old doorways. So it caused a bit of head scratching. How to fit that enormous fridge through those not-so enormous doorways? In the end, they had to remove the doors from the fridge, no small feat. There were wires and cabling and connections and water hoses and whatnot all over the place. I have no idea how he did it, but the guy was obviously very experienced at what he was doing. Even so, it still took him over an hour to dismantle things enough to get the main fridge part through the doorways. But it did finally fit through the doorway. There wasn't a lot of room, and I know if I'd have purchased anything larger, it just wouldn't have fit at all. Yikes! Dodged a bullet on that one!
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The guys stuck with it, and at the end of about five hours of steady work, my four new appliances were installed. The work was absolutely professional, and I could not be more satisfied with things. They look great, and I am delighted. I haven't cooked anything yet, but it all seems ready to go. Here are three quick pictures I took this afternoon:
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So this means we'll be sleeping at the new house tonight, for the first time. We've moved the last of the smaller furniture from the rental, and tomorrow we will run over to St. George to turn in the rented van I've had the last few weeks. I even took time this afternoon for one final dump run, to get rid of a mountain of packing boxes, styrofoam, and other leftover trash from moving. All the appliances came in boxes, with a ton of packing material around them. It was mostly too large to fit in my car, so it was great that I had this van available to get rid of it all. It has worked out beautifully, and I'm sure the neighbors will be glad to not have the van filling the street in front of the house. It's too large to fit in the driveway of the rental house.
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We're meeting furniture movers at the rental tomorrow afternoon to move the last of the big furniture to the new house. Jeff and I will take care of moving the last of the small items and loose things in our cars. Over the weekend we'll clean the rental, and then turn in the keys. it'll be nice to only have to think about living in one house, instead of two.
I can nearly taste it. We're almost done.
Dave