After a rather stressful adventure renting a Home Depot truck for the pergola project and racing around to return it in time with gas, this time we decided to have everything delivered. It was only a little bit more and SO much easier with a toddler. We also used the opportunity to buy a big exterior ladder - something that never would have fit in a rental truck or our car and we've needed one for a while.
The delivery happened yesterday... and 30 of the 1x2s were missing from the order. Mike called Home Depot to complain and they said they could deliver them next Tuesday. There's no way we wanted to wait a week to start on the attic, so Mike went to the store to pick them up from their shipping room. Luckily something so small and light easily fit in my small SUV (at least it wasn't the plywood!), so it was just an extra trip to the store. And while it was annoying to have to drive all the way over there, the silver lining is they they refunded our delivery fee! So we had all the plywood and the GIANT ladder delivered for FREE. Heck yeah!
Until we get the furring strips nailed down as a base, the plywood has to live in our dining room. Thanks to a rainy forecast it can't be outside. We put up baby gates and chairs to keep Oliver out and safe, but now he thinks it's a let's-escape-to-the-dining-room game.
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