Bungalow '23: An Arts & Crafts home improvement journal

Learning The Hard Way

Wednesday, September 14th, 2005

Measure twice; cut once. That’s the kind of wisdom that you come up with after measuring once and getting it wrong. So here’s my latest maxim from the Hard Way School of Home Improvement: “Check it all before you call.” This is my sad, stupid story. My dishwasher was ...

Me vs. The Mice

Saturday, September 10th, 2005

My wife is away at a work retreat and my son is upstairs sleeping– it must be time to fix something! A couple days ago, I had to remove the dishwasher from the kitchen cabinets for an appliance fixit job that is still ongoing. When the dishwasher came out, I ...

O Rodent, Where Art Thou?

Wednesday, September 7th, 2005

I had to tinker with the dishwasher today– a project that required removing the toe kick and soaking up water in an overflow pan with a sponge. While I was lying down on kitchen floor I noticed a smell like a musty bathroom coming from beneath the dishwasher and ...