Thursday, November 11, 2010

Out with the Old and In with the New

Thanks to family and a lot of hard work I now have a new tub, shower and surround!!! My old one had a crack in it and I had been wanting to redo it for some time. Finding a time when it worked for everyone was no small feat. Dan took me to Burlington Thursday nite to get the new tub and surround. They didn't have in stock at Lowe's what I wanted so we went to Menard's. Spent some time picking out what I wanted as they didn't have in stock what I wanted exactly either. But I picked something I thought would be OK. We paid and went to the warehouse to load it and they didn't have the tub. So we took everything back and decided to go to Coralville on Friday afternoon and get one at their Lowe's. Friday Dan took off work a little early and we went to Coralville and picked up everything we needed. A very nice associate named Scott helped us find everything on the list. We got it home and unloaded into the garage for work on Saturday.



While everyone was doing the demo on Saturday I went out to the garage to unpack the new tub and it had a big crack!!! I called Lowe's and they had another tub so was going to exchange it and Larry asked if maybe we should check the surround. It also had a small crack. They did not have another surround! So Dan and I loaded up the damaged merchandise and went back to Coralville and picked out another set. Scott was there and he actually gave us a discount for our trouble.
This is what the demo looked like. Look at that wallpaper!

Wednesday nite and it looks wonderful and it is wonderful. Thanks to Larry and Donnie for all their work and Dan for finishing up all the trim. (I think he liked the demo better than the construction. ) But I am very happy with it.