Category: bathroom

10/28/13 11:11 - ID#58199

Bathroom Complete

Other than scrubbing a little more grout haze off the floor we are done. (e:Joe), (e:terry) and I did so much work in since the contractors left its unbelievable.

Overall I am really happy with everything. I know its not 100% historical style but I think it still looks classy. I fixed the white spot near the ceiling in the back of the shower since these pics were taken. I live the mirror on the arm between the vanity mirrors. It makes things like cutting the back of your hair or cleaning your ears so much easier.

As I was taking a bath in the warm sun this morning and stepped out onto the heated tile floor, I hoped this is beginning to fixing everything in the house.

I learned a lot from this project. From sealing tile to installing towel racks and hooking up all the compression fittings and drains after we moved the vanity and tub. I also decided that next time I am going to do it myself as I felt the workers were not as carwful with details as I would have been. Like the threshold being too close to the water or tub being pressed right up against the wall for no apparent reason. We also had to dig out the tiles that were hidden under grout before sealing. Basically they saved us a lot of time but at the same time cost a lot of money and worked much more sloppily than I would have.

Now if only I could get over the stupid cold I have.

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Category: appliances

10/26/13 10:32 - ID#58190

Dehumifier Frozen

Apparently they don't work under 70 degrees. I still had it on from the summer.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 10/26/13 10:32

Category: bathroom

10/26/13 10:10 - ID#58189

Shower View - NSFW

It looks best from this vantage point!

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 10/28/13 11:25

Category: bars

10/25/13 02:43 - ID#58187

Out with Terry and Joe and the Siblings

We went out last night to invite people to our Halloween party. Was a pretty fun night fueled by drink specials.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: bathroom

10/25/13 02:32 - ID#58186

Bathroom - Fixed

They came and fixed the remaining issues. They even built and stained a new floor board to replace the one that was missing. It looks pretty awesome now. Now time to take everything back out so we can paint and then hang up all the hardware.

The tub looks great. I am so glad we bought it. Last night (e:joe) and I took a bath in and it was plenty of space for both of us 6+ footers. It was hard to get out of the hot water but the heated floor helps.



I am also really happy with the vanity despite it being the brown one instead of the black one I thought I ordered. The brown is dark enough though and matches the rubbed bronze hardware.



They fixed all the issues I had with the shower heads. There are so many options between the hand held, the rain showers, the standard showers and the jets. Its pretty amazing now like the ones we saw in the catalogs when we first decided to build a walk in multi-person shower.




Another gratuitous (e:lilho) homage

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 10/25/13 02:32

Category: work

10/24/13 09:29 - ID#58185

Work - I'm on strike

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 10/24/13 10:46

Category: bathroom

10/24/13 10:01 - ID#58182

Bathroom Done

Hi Paul, Keith tells me everything is done and looking great! If you concur, would like to collect balance owed of $6,750.00. Thanks for your business!

My response:

I would have appreciated a final walk-through. I have never had any other work done where the contractor did not have a final walk-through. Maybe they would have caught some of these glaringly obvious issues. Or maybe thats why they didn't do one because the issues existed as demonstrated by the photos below.

For example, the supposed to be rain shower that is now just a leaky cap in my ceiling and the other showerheads are leaking from the bolt where they are connected to the arm on the shower wall. Did no one test them?

These are such obvious oversights that it terrifies me to think whatever less obvious things were overlooked.

Additionally:

1. The door trim is over the position of the light.
2. The window does not fit in the wall and sits above it almost an inch.
3. A piece of floor board in the adjoining bedroom is missing. It was there before they started. Do your guys know where the floor board is?
4. They scratched the crap out of my branch new $1600 dresser. Its frustrating because this happened when they put debris up there and then must have tried to clean it up yesterday by wiping rock debris on the wood. i

I am checking on the repair cost of these today or tomorrow.

I will gladly pay you once you rectify these issues or if you give me a written signed letter stating these issues will be rectified.
Paul

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 10/24/13 06:27

Category: work

10/24/13 06:11 - ID#58181

6am

I cannot believe I have a 7am meeting where I meet the CEO for the first time. Why 7am? Who knew 6am was dark.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 10/25/13 02:23

Category: halloween

10/24/13 06:09 - ID#58180

Giant Pumpkin

This year with giant jacket hair.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 10/24/13 06:09

Category: apple

10/22/13 11:44 - ID#58175

Tunneling Apple Remote Desktop through Linux Server via ssh

You obviously could just connect the mac computers together via ssh if they were reachable from each other. In this case they are not and there is a linux comp in between. between the client mac and the target mac. Tunneling screen sharing over ssh also makes it secure.

From your terminal on the mac you will be connecting from. I was missing this part before and therefore it was not working.

sudo defaults write com.apple.ScreenSharing skipLocalAddressCheck -boolean YES

From client mac connect to linux server and map your port 6900 to its 5900. Really you could use any ports you want just make sure that you use them in the next command too.
ssh -p 22 -L 6900:127.0.0.1:5900 user@linuxserver

From linux server connect to target mac that you want to view mapping its port 5900 to the mac port 5900. The first port is whatever the second port was above. The last 5900 needs to be that as the mac runs its dekstop screen sharing over port 5900.

ssh -L 5900:127.0.0.1:5900 user@targetmac

From there mac you want to view the other mac on, open the finder's menu and select go - connect to server.

enter address as your localhost and whatever port you chose as the first one in the first ssh command

vnc://127.0.0.1:6900

hit connect

login with the account for the targetmac

from view menu select the display you want to view. From there you should see and be able to control the target mac.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
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