For the past four years there has been a hole in my kitchen ceiling. My beloved put it there. You see, once upon a time our upstairs bathtub would not drain. We have an old house and the plumbing is nothing if not interesting. My Hubby and his friend decided that to fix the problem, they would have to take apart the pipes. Unbeknownst to me, they determined that the best way to go about this was through the floor by hacking a hole about 2 feet by 2 feet in my plaster kitchen ceiling.
Lo and behold, they couldn't quite get to the pipes from below. After a week and a half of Beavis and Butthead trying to figure out the problem (all the while, I was unable to use my upstairs tub), I finally called a plumber. A half an hour and a drain snake and the problem was resolved. The tub problem, that is. I still had a hole in my ceiling.
After "gently reminding" him for several weeks, he "fixed" the problem by taping a white trash bag up there with duct tape. I'm serious. This caused me to have a nervous twitch that has still not completely gone away. Beavis swore up and down that he and Butthead were going to replaster my ceiling and I would never know the hole had been there.
Six to eight months later (after more "gentle reminding" from me) the problem was "taken care of." My beloved screwed a white posterboard over the hole. And thus I STILL have a hole in my kitchen ceiling. Ladies, I could not make this stuff up.
Catt
Wednesday, April 13, 2005
There's a Hole In My Ceiling
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ACK! Your pictures aren't showing up! I emailed a link of your blog to my hubby so he could see what he was in for if things didn't change soon, and he said the bandwidth was exceeded on your photobucket stuff. And, he's right!
Is there any way to restore the pics?
Oh Catt, that just sucks. I probably would have tied my husband's tail in such a twist he couldn't even begin to walk straight. You are a truly patient woman indeed.
I didn't post a picture of this one. I wasn't sure where you guys want pictures hosted. I actually have 2 photobucket accounts. One for the blog design and one for pictures. AND I use hello to post pics directly to my blog. We'll figure it out eventually.
Hey - I've got a hole in my ceiling too! Not quite as big as yours. Mine came from hubby in a fit of rage at a keyboard that had the gall to not type the way he wanted it to....so he threw it. what a freak he is sometimes
This is both hilarious and horrifying at the same time. :lol: I mentioned this blog on a post of mine today. It can't have too many readers!
OMG! I have a hole in my kitchen ceiling too! Okay well not an actual hole, but a piece of plasterboard that has been taped and compounded but that's as far as it goes. It's been that way for 8 years!!
I'm not kidding I have pictures from my oldests Baptism lunch and the ceiling looks exactly the same.
It's like he doesn't even see it!!
Oh there would be death - death and maiming. Then I'd probably scramble up there and do it myself because my hubby would just never get around to it.
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