It's Hard to Tell Who's Winning

We didn't have much time for the house last night, but we had two goals. First, to order carpet and second, to rid the bathroom of that awful smell from the Jacuzzi.

The carpet turned out to be more difficult than expected. Our estimate had two incorrect items on it. They charged us for moving furniture, which we currently don't have and they also charged us for removing carpet, which is quite obviously already gone.

Apparently this would take massive recalculations and would you know it the Flooring Department was swamped and their computers were down. We're hoping they call us today.

As for the Jacuzzi...after researching on Google, I discovered a few things. First, everybody wants you to buy their snazzy product, which will clean your Jacuzzi. No one will admit that any type of household cleaner could possibly clean your Jacuzzi pipes. This was disappointing. But the huge defeating fact I found out was that bleach has absolutely no effect on whatever is lurking in your Jacuzzi pipes. I also learned what's lurking in there and it isn't pretty. I think every deadly disease know to man must be breeding and hiding out in our Jacuzzi pipes.

We went for the relatively inexpensive second swipe at our problem and bought a 'whirlpool' cleaner at Lowe's. It consisted of two packets that you must pour in at timed intervals in a certain part of the tub. I read the instructions three times as they warned of a horrible odor if this wasn't done correctly and the last thing I wanted to do was add to the smell!

There were also three separate warnings on the package about not touching this cleaner, not smelling it, not ingesting it, etc. I was afraid to even get near the stuff by the time I had finished reading. Needless to say I sent Kevin in the bathroom with a rubber glove to drain the tub when it was done!

And the smell is - it's reduced. So I'm still not sure who's winning...