Attention: TDR Forum Junkies 
It all started with a simple phone call.
What started out as a beautiful, calm day... ended in disaster.
I really have to thank TDR member Paul LaFrombois for being there with me during this very difficult time in my life.
Below are some pictures of the scene as it played out.
We tried and tried to get my $200 mattress and box (notice how I didn't use the word spring?) up to the second floor. Try as we might... I still had to get out the 3-pound ball peen hammer. Me and sheetrock get along just fine... except when it's in the way. Come to find out... hogging out all that sheetrock didn't give us enough clearance to get the box up the stairwell.
So - I approached the Mattress Discounters bottom-of-the-line box with a utility knife, wood chisel, my handy dandy 3-pound ball peen hammer and lots of fightin' words.
Paul had a look on his face the whole time that was hard to describe. He was both amazed and unimpressed at the same time. His final thought was: "Well, at least we got it up there. " That's right, Paul... we got it up there. :-laf
I now have a more intimate knowledge of some of my second floor plumbing and don't feel bad at all about the damage for a few reasons:
Matt
What started out as a beautiful, calm day... ended in disaster.
I really have to thank TDR member Paul LaFrombois for being there with me during this very difficult time in my life.
Below are some pictures of the scene as it played out.
We tried and tried to get my $200 mattress and box (notice how I didn't use the word spring?) up to the second floor. Try as we might... I still had to get out the 3-pound ball peen hammer. Me and sheetrock get along just fine... except when it's in the way. Come to find out... hogging out all that sheetrock didn't give us enough clearance to get the box up the stairwell.
So - I approached the Mattress Discounters bottom-of-the-line box with a utility knife, wood chisel, my handy dandy 3-pound ball peen hammer and lots of fightin' words.
Paul had a look on his face the whole time that was hard to describe. He was both amazed and unimpressed at the same time. His final thought was: "Well, at least we got it up there. " That's right, Paul... we got it up there. :-laf
I now have a more intimate knowledge of some of my second floor plumbing and don't feel bad at all about the damage for a few reasons:
- This experience has uncovered a dire need to modify the stairwell to fit stuff up there. It shouldn't have been built like that in the first place.
- I got to buy a 6hp wet/dry vac!
- The sheetrock was improperly installed, anyhow... ?
Matt
:-laf
emd power packs' end up costing about $15,000usd each including labour for actual EMD assemblies. the rebuilds are like $4k cheaper, but when they last 30 days instead of 300 days, well who's saving money there. . ?
