So last Saturday we moved into our new house. We love our house even with all it's little problems, and yes we keep finding more little problems as we go along. But really we don't mind it's ours, we don't have to ask to do anything to it, we can get a pet when ever we want and not have to pay a deposit or something like that. We painted the kids rooms, Peyton purple and Ross orange.
So far with moving in we have fixed the hot and cold water knobs for the washer, that was a bigger project then we thought when we started it. Because of the age of our house we had to get a special adapter for our water lines. So ended up having to cut the drywall and the water lines to put the adapters on so we could put new knobs on. Good so that's all working fine now, go to hook up the washer and the lines leak, okay fine not a big deal just needs some new O rings. Well after starting a load of cloth diapers I hear the washer stop so I go down to unload it to hang the diapers up to dry. Well after opening the washer I see that it's still full of water :( The washer does not work, it wont spin or agitate or anything but fill with water and make a buzzing noise that smells like something is burning. So I pull out all the wet diapers ring them out and take them to the laundry mat to finish them up. Get on Craigslist and find another washer in town install and bam! we are back in business.
So on to the next project, fixing the upstairs toilet that wont stop running. This was one pretty easy and we did not run into any drama with it, thank goodness. We still have to fix the downstairs toilet since it just runs as well but that project can wait for a little bit.
We are now back upstairs again working on a few more things. I went to load the dishwasher the other morning and when I pulled out the lower drawer the upper one fell down inside the dishwasher, oops. So I called my mom and asked for the extra one that she had in her garage if we could have it. She said yes, because she loves me so much, and Pat is now installing that one. It turned into a little bit more of a project then we thought but we are learning to expect that with our house. We also got to see what the old kitchen floor looked like, so glad they put new flooring down yuck. And our floor under the dishwasher has some water damage from a leak under the kitchen sink so that has been added to our repair list as well. It's not something that needs to be done right away so it can wait just a little bit before we go tearing up the kitchen floor.
I will fill you all in tomorrow or in a few days about our stove adventure we went on yesterday. But right now I need to get back to unpacking and putting some more things away to make this house a home.
So far with moving in we have fixed the hot and cold water knobs for the washer, that was a bigger project then we thought when we started it. Because of the age of our house we had to get a special adapter for our water lines. So ended up having to cut the drywall and the water lines to put the adapters on so we could put new knobs on. Good so that's all working fine now, go to hook up the washer and the lines leak, okay fine not a big deal just needs some new O rings. Well after starting a load of cloth diapers I hear the washer stop so I go down to unload it to hang the diapers up to dry. Well after opening the washer I see that it's still full of water :( The washer does not work, it wont spin or agitate or anything but fill with water and make a buzzing noise that smells like something is burning. So I pull out all the wet diapers ring them out and take them to the laundry mat to finish them up. Get on Craigslist and find another washer in town install and bam! we are back in business.
So on to the next project, fixing the upstairs toilet that wont stop running. This was one pretty easy and we did not run into any drama with it, thank goodness. We still have to fix the downstairs toilet since it just runs as well but that project can wait for a little bit.
We are now back upstairs again working on a few more things. I went to load the dishwasher the other morning and when I pulled out the lower drawer the upper one fell down inside the dishwasher, oops. So I called my mom and asked for the extra one that she had in her garage if we could have it. She said yes, because she loves me so much, and Pat is now installing that one. It turned into a little bit more of a project then we thought but we are learning to expect that with our house. We also got to see what the old kitchen floor looked like, so glad they put new flooring down yuck. And our floor under the dishwasher has some water damage from a leak under the kitchen sink so that has been added to our repair list as well. It's not something that needs to be done right away so it can wait just a little bit before we go tearing up the kitchen floor.
I will fill you all in tomorrow or in a few days about our stove adventure we went on yesterday. But right now I need to get back to unpacking and putting some more things away to make this house a home.
