29.6k; another cranky construction post

[thanate]

Feeling seriously besieged by the construction; the floor tile is not happening (as they said yesterday they were going to do today) but there are two electricians cutting in smoke detectors in the upstairs bedrooms. Apparently current code requires you not only to have smoke detectors in all bedrooms & the upstairs hallway, but that you have them wired in, so that when the power goes out you can knock over your candles & burn the house down undisturbed. Ok, whatever; but it means that there is currently no place in my own house that is a) warm, b) containing a table of any sort, and c) with a door I can shut between me and the guys wandering up and down the stairs to their tools and chopping holes in the ceiling.

The logical thing to do would be to decamp to the library, but I deeply resent being driven out of my own house, and the urge to stick around so I can growl at people and guard it is strong. Also, I'm not sure what the evening plan is for today, as grauwulf mentioned staying late to work on homework at the office, but I'm not sure if this is happening or not.

Comments

[cheshiretiffy.livejournal.com]

Ours are wired with battery backup.

[thanate.livejournal.com]

That looks like what they put in here, too. I'm just still rolling my eyes over the fact that the inspectors require us to do this kind of stuff in rooms otherwise unaffected by the work we're having done when we already had perfectly good non-wired smoke detectors everywhere except the room that doesn't currently have a door.

Yeah, don't mind me.

[blairmacg.livejournal.com]

It *would* be bearable with a door, wouldn't it? I completely understand.

[thanate.livejournal.com]

definitely better, anyway. (Although the reason we have taken off half the doors in the house is symptomatic of *why* we're doing this addition in the first place: my dresser is in the way of where the craft room door would open upstairs, and ditto on the refrigerator & the kitchen door downstairs... but even so, we're quite open plan, which is great up until you want to ignore someone, or keep the cat out of the way.)