Word of the Week: spachteln

As in, to spackle or fill in a hole. Such as the hole in our bathroom wall.

The apartment directly above us is undergoing a complete renovation, including ripping out all the flooring and walls and replacing all the pipes. They needed to make a hole in our wall to do something to the water pipes for the apartment above, so we've been living with a hole in the bathroom wall for the past few weeks. Finally, they began to spachteln and it's so nice not to feel like there is a huge peep hole into our most private room!

Oh, they also accidentally made a hole in the living room ceiling while drilling into the above apartment's floor, so that's being (slowly) fixed, too. I sadly did not get a photo of the chaos of plaster that rained down, but I'm sure you can imagine. I'm looking forward to having a clean, orderly apartment again soon!