Spend, spend, spend
Wednesday evening, after cooking dinner, Sara asked if we could go ahead and get the Jenn-Air dual oven range that we had looked at over the weekend. I immediately agreed since I had gotten two coupons from Home Depot for no payments/no interest for 12 months and one was set to expire at the end of November.
I decided to get the white version of the range, though there was a brief moment where I thought I might be "forced" to get the stainless steel version. Sara really likes stainless steel appliances, and while I'm not opposed to them, I don't think that one stainless steel range would look right in a kitchen where all the other appliances are white and the theme is more country kitchen than modern.
We'll be keeping the existing electric range in the back garage. We'll either sell it for a few hundred bucks come spring, or maybe Sara will convince me that it should go into the basement as part of the wet bar.
While we were at Home Depot, I decided that it was time to get the DRIcore floor system so I can have a basement floor that's not solid concrete. The nice thing about the DRIcore system is that it says it gives you an R-value of 2, which should be enough to warm (or prevent heat loss) the basement to the tune of 6 to 7 degrees F. That alone would be worth the $1400 in tiles.
The other reason to get the DRIcore is that it should be considerably softer than concrete. I've never been on a carpet laid on concrete that was anything other than rock hard. While the DRIcore panels say they will support 5500 pounds per square foot, normal concrete supports about 5000 pounds per square inch. Concrete is harder by a couple orders of magnitude, and you're feet can tell.
The DRIcore should be delivered today, Friday, and then I'll have the fun task of moving 240 tiles, about 2300 pounds, down a flight of stairs into the basement. Sara's quite a trooper though, she suggested that we save the $60 delivery fee and load the tiles into my truck ourselves. I figure it's worth way more than $60 to only have to lift the tiles once.
I decided to get the white version of the range, though there was a brief moment where I thought I might be "forced" to get the stainless steel version. Sara really likes stainless steel appliances, and while I'm not opposed to them, I don't think that one stainless steel range would look right in a kitchen where all the other appliances are white and the theme is more country kitchen than modern.
We'll be keeping the existing electric range in the back garage. We'll either sell it for a few hundred bucks come spring, or maybe Sara will convince me that it should go into the basement as part of the wet bar.
While we were at Home Depot, I decided that it was time to get the DRIcore floor system so I can have a basement floor that's not solid concrete. The nice thing about the DRIcore system is that it says it gives you an R-value of 2, which should be enough to warm (or prevent heat loss) the basement to the tune of 6 to 7 degrees F. That alone would be worth the $1400 in tiles.
The other reason to get the DRIcore is that it should be considerably softer than concrete. I've never been on a carpet laid on concrete that was anything other than rock hard. While the DRIcore panels say they will support 5500 pounds per square foot, normal concrete supports about 5000 pounds per square inch. Concrete is harder by a couple orders of magnitude, and you're feet can tell.
The DRIcore should be delivered today, Friday, and then I'll have the fun task of moving 240 tiles, about 2300 pounds, down a flight of stairs into the basement. Sara's quite a trooper though, she suggested that we save the $60 delivery fee and load the tiles into my truck ourselves. I figure it's worth way more than $60 to only have to lift the tiles once.
posted by Mark at 10:14 AM
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