Star0210
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Sigh....make that a BIG DRAMATIC SIGH. This is gonna be long...another installment in our adventures of boat ownership. Lol
So back in February or thereabouts I posted how we removed all of the carpet from the walls, ceiling, and floor of the v berth, the stairs, and the floors in the little bedroom and landing between the two bedrooms. There was quite a bit of mold in the v berth under that carpet. We cleaned all of that up.
Then we put the boat on the hard for a bottom job and a bunch of work.
When we got the boat back, we got back to working on the carpeted areas. Scraping off all of the old glue in preparation to put something new up there. I really didn't want to go back with carpet so we were playing around with other ideas.
Well....things didn't go as planned. David woke up one morning after having spent an afternoon working overhead in excruciating pain in his arm and shoulder. We figured it was just sore muscles from the awkward position he had been working in. After a few days it was worse not better so I took him to the doctor. After an MRI, we learned that he has three herniated discs in his neck with nerve impingement and spinal canal stenosis and degeneration. So we're now dealing with that...he's had an epidural steroid injection in his neck and will have another one next week. Surgery is still on the table. Well needless to say that ended his working on the boat. So I said I'll go do some scraping. I was just getting over a sinus infection and bronchitis. I didn't think to leave a door open or open windows for ventilation. Using the heat gun created a lot of smoke that filled the v berth. I woke up the next morning unable to breathe and with extremely irritated eyes. Off to the doctor I went for a steroid shot, another round of antibiotics, nose spray, and drops for my eyes. Aye yi yi. David said no more glue scraping for you.
So we started calling and asking around looking to find someone to hire to do the work for us. The one guy everybody recommended would only go with carpet. We held out for a while because I really really didn't want to go back with carpet. But no luck in finding anyone. So we got to the point of saying screw it, we just want it done and useable again. Called the guy up and said fine, just go with the stupid carpet. He came to measure last week and we still haven't heard back with him with an estimate or time frame of when he could do the work.
Which leads me to now...yesterday we were at the boat doing some things and it rained a lot..and hard. We found two leaks. One in the v berth and on right next to the stairs going down to the bedrooms. The one in the v berth we are pretty sure is either from the railing or the cleats. But the one on the side next to the stairs, we have no idea where that could be coming from.
Obviously we have to figure it out and fix it before we have the new carpet and floor installed. More delay. Between these issues, and David's neck, we're pretty much losing the whole boating season. We've yet to take the boat out at all this year. Oh, and the generator won't start. Woohoo....
There's always next year right!! ????
So back in February or thereabouts I posted how we removed all of the carpet from the walls, ceiling, and floor of the v berth, the stairs, and the floors in the little bedroom and landing between the two bedrooms. There was quite a bit of mold in the v berth under that carpet. We cleaned all of that up.
Then we put the boat on the hard for a bottom job and a bunch of work.
When we got the boat back, we got back to working on the carpeted areas. Scraping off all of the old glue in preparation to put something new up there. I really didn't want to go back with carpet so we were playing around with other ideas.
Well....things didn't go as planned. David woke up one morning after having spent an afternoon working overhead in excruciating pain in his arm and shoulder. We figured it was just sore muscles from the awkward position he had been working in. After a few days it was worse not better so I took him to the doctor. After an MRI, we learned that he has three herniated discs in his neck with nerve impingement and spinal canal stenosis and degeneration. So we're now dealing with that...he's had an epidural steroid injection in his neck and will have another one next week. Surgery is still on the table. Well needless to say that ended his working on the boat. So I said I'll go do some scraping. I was just getting over a sinus infection and bronchitis. I didn't think to leave a door open or open windows for ventilation. Using the heat gun created a lot of smoke that filled the v berth. I woke up the next morning unable to breathe and with extremely irritated eyes. Off to the doctor I went for a steroid shot, another round of antibiotics, nose spray, and drops for my eyes. Aye yi yi. David said no more glue scraping for you.
So we started calling and asking around looking to find someone to hire to do the work for us. The one guy everybody recommended would only go with carpet. We held out for a while because I really really didn't want to go back with carpet. But no luck in finding anyone. So we got to the point of saying screw it, we just want it done and useable again. Called the guy up and said fine, just go with the stupid carpet. He came to measure last week and we still haven't heard back with him with an estimate or time frame of when he could do the work.
Which leads me to now...yesterday we were at the boat doing some things and it rained a lot..and hard. We found two leaks. One in the v berth and on right next to the stairs going down to the bedrooms. The one in the v berth we are pretty sure is either from the railing or the cleats. But the one on the side next to the stairs, we have no idea where that could be coming from.
Obviously we have to figure it out and fix it before we have the new carpet and floor installed. More delay. Between these issues, and David's neck, we're pretty much losing the whole boating season. We've yet to take the boat out at all this year. Oh, and the generator won't start. Woohoo....
There's always next year right!! ????