When we got home from work, we flipped over the dining room table - a nice old butcher block table. Remember how we got it from Craig's List, and once we got it home and put it together, it was so very wobbly?
Well, we had been planning to buy some oak to cut and fit underneath the table to reinforce it. We were not looking forward to it, because we're no carpenters and doing something like that at all is much much different from doing it well, if you get my drift.
So anyway, we recently got this new ratchet set. Many times in the process of fixing up the house, things have been harder than we imagined. Tightening the big screws last night did the trick - a fix much *easier* than we imagined! The table is sturdy again!
It's sort of hard to tell, but the critical screws were the ones that connected the top of the "T", which supports the tabletop, to the legs of the table. Those screw-heads are inset, so they don't stick out. Since we didn't have the appropriate tools when we put the table together initially, we could only tighten them with a wrench, and apparently they weren't tight enough. The ratchet was necessary in this case.
We tightened down all the rest of the screws, too, and now the table and benches are good as new. Yay!
PS
We updated Espresso Oyster. Unfortunately, when we were out West, the fungi started growing tentacles. They spores should have developed more like mounds with flaps. The instructions said it grows tentacles when it doesn't have enough air or light. But we weren't home to rectify the situation. Back to the drawing board.
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