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.









Monday, August 8, 2016

Let there be light.... and paint!

Once in awhile, the universe decides it's time to throw us a bone.  This past weekend was a great one at the house. Lots of fun things are happening! First, Joe & I got the living room and dining room painted this weekend! Damien ended up picking the final color, and I was nervous at first but I LOVE IT! It's the perfect mix of blue and gray and it really looks awesome.




We got our electrical work done on Saturday and passed our inspection too! Over the weekend we did have electric though because Damien made a makeshift plug that plugged into the generator and then into an outlet which powered about half the house.



Another super fun thing that happened is we got an AMAZING deal on tile for our kitchen. I want to take credit so bad - but I can't. Damien is completely responsible for this one.  He found tile on clearance at our local Lowe's for $0.16/sq.ft. Crazy, right? Well, they only had 4 BUT - another Lowe's about an hour away had 200 of them AND they price matched it. So we got tile to cover over 400 sq. ft. for $60! This tile would have originally cost us just about $1,000 so that is gigantic savings.


Our water should be on within the next ten days or so. Unfortunately we have to wait until the foreman gets back from vacation which won't be until next Monday. We are crossing our fingers they can get their end handled some time next week so we can have all the utilities worked out by the end of next week.






Thursday, August 4, 2016

"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are"

We sold the mobile home today! We don't even own it anymore. The countdown is on to finish things at the house. We have 21 more days to be out of here (August 25th) and are only 10 days until our goal of being out by August 15. The ship has sailed for being out by August 15th because of the water issues, but we will definitely have the house in order enough to be out by August 25th. We don't have a choice anymore.

Yesterday we went to the house. I finished up painting Abigail's walls that needed a little touch up, and Damien measured and figured out how many boards we need for our dining room floor and also planned out getting the electric fixed. That should be fixed on Saturday, which means we should have electric by early next week.

This weekend I plan on painting the downstairs while Damien fixes the electric and hopefully gets started on repairing the floor in the dining room.  In case you forget what it looks like, this is what we are dealing with.


We have about 11 boards that we need to replace including the grate. Here's to hoping we can get this all worked out in the next 21 days! 






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