SpokaneFixer

If you’ve been keeping up with my posts, you’ll remember that the dryer broke… the repair of which required an entire laundry room renovation. During the renovation, unbeknownst to me, I punctured a kitchen drain pipe in the wall while hanging the 2×12 shelving. I mean… the stud finder said there was something there, even though I knew based on spacing that there shouldn’t have been a stud. I drilled anyway (see disclaimers on the front page of this site). Even after I knew that whatever I’d drilled into wasn’t going to hold a shelf and backed out the screw, it didn’t occur to me that it might have been a pipe. Learning as I go, remember?

With the laundry room completed, I needed another project to do. Well, three months later, I knew exactly which project needed doing. It came to me in the form of something growing in my wife’s photography office closet which is situated adjacent to my laundry room shelving. Now, we live in Washington State where it is perfectly legal to grow mushrooms in one’s closet, so I wasn’t going to rush to judgment. What my wife grows in her office closet is none of my concern as long as it is legal. Unfortunately, as it turns out, I was the one who started this little mushroom farm when I punctured the drain pipe. Not enough water to notice, but just enough for a steady stream to grow some hideous, disgusting mold.

The insurance company was kind enough to bring in the dryers and mitigate the damage but, in the end, would not cover the loss. There really wasn’t much loss, anyway. The worst part for me was that I was just given my next project without much warning or choice. We had been looking to eventually remodel the two downstairs bedrooms, but this event really pushed us into it. More on that in a future post.