Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Fill a house with love and it becomes a home.

When we sold the trailer we agreed to be out within three weeks. Three weeks was up this past Thursday. We weren't at all ready. The girls and I had to stay with my parents, while Damien stayed at the house trying to get things in order.  We ended up having major plumbing problems that took forever to fix because my husband isn't a plumber nor did he know a whole lot about plumbing before he took this project on. However, with a lot of hard work he figured it out and fixed our issues and thankfully at this time, we don't have any leaks. 


We originally thought the tiles that were damaged in the kitchen was an old leak. It wasn't. Luckily this ended up being the easiest part. The toilet tank cracked and when the water was turned on, it all leaked out.  So all we had to do was replace the toilet and problem solved.  The worst part was the basement - where every single pipe was leaking. Now everything in the basement is brand new and so far, no problems.

When Damien finally finished all that, we ended up having a valve in the kitchen blow off (he hadn't replaced those yet) while we were away for the night and flooded our kitchen and basement. That was a huge drag, but after a few days, everything dried out and we pressed on.  It just ended up holding everything else up and we were unable to get the house as put-together as we thought.

Our tile floor is completely laid and is just waiting to have grout added to it.  I am hoping that happens sometime this week. 



Abigail started 1st grade yesterday so we moved the girls in Sunday night. It's not easy at all, but we're making it. We don't have a fridge yet (just a cooler we borrowed from my parents), our kitchen cabinets are currently in the dining room, and the rest of our stuff is all over the place. But little by little things get accomplished and as that happens, things get just a little bit easier.  I'm hopeful that in the next week or two we'll have a fully functioning house.  I don't think it will ever be "done" - but I hope to have it put back together soon.









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