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It’s plumbertime… It’s time for some pictures from the new bathroom furniture install

Time for some more pictures… This time: The new kitchen!

No pictures this time though. I’m sitting on the bus from Knarvik to Bergen writing this because this is the only slot of time where I’ve had time to do anything like this for almost a week.
I’ve had multiple deliveries of documentation at work, and that can really stretch your creative muscles for a while. On the moving part; we have now finally moved, we have slept in the new apartment for two nights even though the bed hasn’t been assembled yet.

We did most of the moving last Saturday. Big thanks to all the people that helped with the move. Some stuff where left over for sunday though. Sunday was the day for assembling the kitchen before the plumber got here monday morning. We just got barely enough of the kitchen furniture assembled before midnight sunday.
The plumber(s) oddly enough (being contractors and all) was ready at 07:29 Monday morning, one minute before they was supposed to And for those who want to know who these eager plumbers where, they where from Gården Rørleggerservice. The same plumber-company that mounted the dishwasher in the old apartment. That also right on time

The electrician we hired was also right on time, and though he did a mistake while assembling the sockets in the kitchen, he also fixed the problem right away.

To sum things up. The kitchen almost looks like a kitchen, and we’re able to prepare food there. Theres still a lot to do. We got hot water in the shower (the heater had broke when we stopped the water a few weeks ago). The livingroom is still full of boxes, though somewhat fewer than on saturday. We sleep on a matress on the livingroom floor. And its 8 days to christmas eve. To top things up, the company I’m working for are moving thursday evening.

As I mentioned the weekend hasn’t been exactly eventless. Actually it was more eventfull than I would wish for. The thing I’m thinking of is what happened on caturday when I rented a trailer to get rid of a lot of crap. The roads where slippy, it was a low sun, preventing me from seeing anything when driving to Espehaugen, to get rid of the crap. This however went fine.

Then I got back to the new apartment, and was going to deliver a couple of bikes to Gengs sykkelverksted at Danmarks Plass together with Dag. That also went pretty good until we was about to leave Danmarks Plass. When we drove up Jonas Lies vei we heard a giant BANG. I leaned out the window, and couldn’t see that we where close to anything that could make such a sound. We got out of the car, trying to find out what it was. It turned out neither of us had remembered to close the door on the trailer. When I started the car, the door had opened, and hit the car parked next to the road.

We didn’t see the owner around, so we put a note under the wipers. Luckily the guy wasn’t mad for this at all. So we met later, and resorted the paperwork.

So, no updates this Sunday either. Thats not because it hasn’t been an eventfull weekend, more on that later. Maybe its good to have one blog-free day each week?

Here’s a new update on the progress of our not-exactly-60-minute-makeover. Do you notice any difference on the pictures from the Kitchen in the last two picture updates and this one?

• Picture update 1
• Picture update 2

Despite being so tired all I could think of when going home from work was a warm shower and going back to bed, we actually got the kitchen ready for the first layer of paint. I put fiberglass wallpaper on the walls in the kitchen, and Katla painted the borders in the hallway bright white. By the way, fiberglass is some sharp, itching stuff.

Whoever guessed that there would be one or several more posts about my ISP switch. Yeah, you where right.

Yesterday, december 3rd, was the delivery date of our new connection. I was told by NextGenTel that I had to be availiable to let the electrician in. About 1pm I was called by the Relacom engineer, he just wanted to tell me that he was finished mounting the line. And that he was not supposed to do anything inside the apartment. That was in a way a good thing, since I didn’t have to leave work. However it wasn’t all good, because there are about 5 different telephony sockets and two ISDN boxes around the place the line enters the apartment. And I didn’t know which one was the right one.

It turned out all but one of them was dead. So I got the thing working. Now, for a speedtest. I ordered a 20mbit line, the same that I had in the old apartment. There I get a result of actual 20mbit when I use speedtest.net. The NGT line however, gave me right around 5mbit.

Now I’m going to call them to ask what’s up with that. I’m not paying for a 20mbit line that performs like a 5mbit line.

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On a sidenote: My foot is 31.47 centimetres long. A british foot is 30.47 centimetres long, exactly 1 centimetre shorter than mine.

After fighting quite a bit with the gallery feature of WordPress, here’s finally some more pictures of the progress… Please, please, please let there be a way to rotate pictures in WP 2.7.

We got the floor leveled, the hall is almost ready, it just lacks borderpaint around the floor. Actually, we did not want to paint them, but there has been spilled so much paint onto them, that we need to do that now. We have also prepared the walls in the kitchen for the new wallpaper.

Okay, so I ended up with NextGenTel as my ISP.  I ordered the connection November 18th, hoping that it would be delivered not too long after we move December 15th. Already on November 21st I was contacted by a lady, checking that my order was correct, and asking if there was something else I wanted, like a static IP or reverse DNS. This is impressive. She also asked if I had heard about this VoIP thing, which I found funny, since my title at work is system engineer and voip expert.

Ofcourse she couldn’t know that, so it’s a totally valid question. And NextGenTel probably tries to push their VoIP solution to all their customers. I hope for their own sake that they’ve fixed the QoS since I had NGT VoIP a few years back.

So. The 26th November I received an SMS, telling me that the line would be delivered December 3rd. Thats very good! We’ll even have an overlapping period where we will have internet in both apartments.

Last time we ordered broadband from NGT they waited so long delivering the line that they, in the meantime, had used all the lines in the central, so they couldn’t deliver.

The SMS also stated that they’d sent the router, and it was on the way to me. I should get a new SMS from Posten when they knew when it’d be delivered.

Yesterday I got the SMS from Posten. Then it occurred to me that I didn’t know if the router was sent to the old or the new apartment, since the billing address was the old apartment, and the installation address was the new one.

So, I contacted NGT. They told me that it would be delivered to the billing address. No worries. Then, about 18 hours a delivery guy called me, telling me that he’d be there in a few minutes, and asking me if I was home. I was at home, in the old apartment, so I answered yes.

A few moments later the same guy called me again, claiming that there was no mention of my name on the doorbell. I then asked him what address he was at, and of course, he was at the new apartment.

We agreed that he should just deliver the package at the post office at the old apartment, and so he did. So, yesterday I picked up the router. Now, the problem is to find out which of the about 10 phone sockets in the new apartent that is the right one to connect the ADSL router to.

as requested…

Pine green paint

Dag is removing the old floor

Cecilie unmounting the old kitchen

Kitchen floor

Eira painting the livingroom walls.