brr.

[jazzfish]

Mostly I like my apartment just fine. It's big enough to fit me and more furniture than I knew I had, it's close to work, it's quiet, it's on the ground floor. The bathroom has its little quirks but overall I'm happy.

When I moved in I noticed that there was about a quarter-inch gap between the top of the carpet and the bottom of the baseboard in the bedroom. I didn't think much about this until fairly recently, when I started noticing a draft across my legs in the evenings. My first thought was the window, so I tacked a blanket up over it. This totally failed to solve the problem. A bit of thought led me to the conclusion that, hey, it's coming through that giant gap in the wall.

I called maintenance about that and an unrelated bathroom issue. According to the note on the door from Friday, the painters will be by as soon as possible to look at the gap. I am unsure what the painters are supposed to do about it, but perhaps they'll tell someone who can actually fix the problem.

In the meantime, of course, I have to move everything away from the two exterior walls in the bedroom. I'm still not sure where I'm going to put my bed.

But I had a very nice weekend with sushi and games and a pilgrimage to Richard McKay in Manassas, and I got Pop's clock (now fully functional, and chiming properly, alas) on Wednesday night. So the weekend's not a total wash.

Still. It's bloody cold in here.

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[selki.livejournal.com]

I called maintenance about that and an unrelated bathroom issue. According to the note on the door from Friday, the painters will be by as soon as possible to look at the gap.

Maybe the painters deal with caulk? Painter's tape? Something to fill in the gap...

[jazzfish]

Ah, that would make sense. In which case I probably /should/ have gone ahead and pushed the bed to, um, wherever the heck I'm going to be pushing it. (Amazing how much a bedroom can shrink when you have to leave a decent amount of space along two of the four walls.)

[scathach.livejournal.com]

Just be thankful that the air coming in is Virginia-cold, not Minnesota-cold. The temperature here hasn't broken zero in three days and counting...

[jazzfish]

You've got a gorgeous city up there and I'd love to visit it again, but, dude, you need to have a serious chat with your weather gods. It's hitting highs of mid-twenties here this week and that is /quite/ cold enough for me. (I had to break out boots. Yeah. Me. Boots.)

[scathach.livejournal.com]

The weather gods hate me. You should send someone else.

[sometimerose.livejournal.com]

The wires on the heater at my house randomly decide that they don't like the connection to the heater and I often wake up in the morning, discover it to be 50something degrees, and have to go down in the basement (which is even colder) and jiggle the wires until they recognize a connection with the heater.

All of which has re-taught me that it is very difficult to get out of the warm bed when the air is so chilly.

[jazzfish]

Good heavens. That sounds rather unpleasant.

All of which has re-taught me that it is very difficult to get out of the warm bed when the air is so chilly.

O so true. My alarm goes off at seven. I've started considering it a victory to have the shower running by the time the clock chimes 7:15.

[sometimerose.livejournal.com]

My alarm generally goes off at 5, which means the sun isn't even thinking of coming up, which makes it even more chilly. This morning it was 10 degrees. Brr.

Anyway, I hope they fix your apartment soon!

[plumbob78.livejournal.com]

Floor separating from wall sounds like something that they should've noticed and fixed before</> letting the place to someone. That really kinda sucks.

[jazzfish]

You'd think. :7

Thing is, other than that I really don't have any complaints about the place. We have yet to see whether this one is going to be enough to make me leave the complex.

[plumbob78.livejournal.com]

If their solution is to send "painters," I would be on the lookout for a relapse in the future. But if they actually fix it and you like the place, I would stay if I were you. Moving S-U-X.

[jazzfish]

Speaking as the guy who lived in eight apartments in seven years, I know. Oh lord do I know.

The building is I think forty years old, so I guess these little structural problems are to be expected. :7 And I'm not too sure what, exactly, they can do about it. Shove insulation down in the gap and plug it with wood? But I do like the apartment in general, and I'm loving the location, and I hate hate hate the idea of having to move after only a year again. So . . . we'll see, I guess.

[rbandrews]

Well they'll paint over it of course. So that the next tenant won't notice until they've signed the lease.

[jazzfish]

That would be a hell of a lot of paint.

What I don't get is how I managed to miss it when I was moving in. It's not like there was anything else in the room at the time to look at . . .