Phase One Completed

 

With the room repainted and subsequently, six layers of paint smaller (three on each side), the carpet guys found a hole in their schedule and showed up a week early. The carpet install went without a hitch on their part though it did require me to shave a half inch off the bottom of the door so that is would swing freely. As soon as the installers left, I swept out the room and was going to install the closet for the rest of the day. On step two, I realized that I was still missing one box, containing three of the four vertical dividers. 

I guess it is the number of boxes, but I already had three prior deliveries of all the components which my invoice said contained 12 boxes. I never bothered to count since the pile was quite large in our living room. But before I called, I checked my email and saw that I had an email from UPS saying I had a delivery for later that day so I waited. The missing box appeared at 5 PM and I had my schoolboard meeting in an hour so I didn't get a lot done.

But the next day I got it completed and am pleased with it especially since it is a rather small closet to start with. It will help maximize it's usage. I set up the bed, installed the closet doors, hung up my MIL's TV on the wall and am calling my part done though I will still be providing more labor in the days to come as we carry furniture, clothes and belongings from downstairs to this bedroom. 

My only complaint with the closet systems is the packaging. Each part comes in a box full of expanded cardboard, bubble wrap and plastic strapping. While it means that of 26 boxes I received for both closets, not a single part was broken or marred in anyway, I ended up with a literal small mountain of packaging materials in my garage. I was pretty sure that the expanded cardboard wasn't recyclable but stuck some of it in my recycling bin anyway. It wasn't picked up though everything else was. So this morning, I removed the middle seats out of our minivan and loaded up the old carpet and all the packaging material from those two closets along with a few other odds and ends. By the time I got the last piece in, the minivan was full floor to ceiling, front to back. I drove to the local county dump and for $14, disposed of it. Had I lived elsewhere, I would have just burned the cardboard but it is against regulations to do so at this time, for good reason. 

Once back home, I took all the recyclable cardboard, which the outer boxes of all the closet parts were packed in, flattened it out, loaded it up and drove to the recycling center and got rid of it. I could have gradually gotten rid of it with our regular recycling but it would have take a couple months to get rid of that much so it just made sense to get it done and over with.