Astoria

Our Astoria Reno correspondent writes:

It’s been more than a month since my last post, and I assumed by now I would have all sorts of fantastic things to talk about.  This did not come to pass.

A book I read before starting this renovation had a chart with the owner’s emotional state in the course of a renovation. During planning, the excitement of first demo, through the revelation of framing, the mood is positive, going up… and later, from sheetrocking onwards, the mood also goes up as the dream comes together.

Between the two is a trough, and the absolute nadir of the process, the lowest and most depressed emotional point, is the installation of the systems: electricity, plumbing, HVAC.  The initial excitement is over, the discernible changes are few, and the finished product still seems ages away. That book’s example was based just on the usual time to install these systems, and it was written in some big square Western state where DOB interference is probably at a minimum.

We have been at this low point for over a month now. (more…)