Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Old house, new house

Reasons I hate the house we live in ( you may think hate is a strong word but let me concinvce you otherwise)
1.  There is no door to the back yard nor do we have a garage door opener.  Letting Cyris out for potty time is very inconvinent,
2.  The wood floor in the whole house are just the floor boards that  use to be covered in carpet.  They are uneven, have giant cracks between them making them hard to sweep and even harder to mop (cannot get water in the cracks).  They also give us splinters lately.
3.  The drain the the furnace room floor plugged causing a flood in the basement.  Mold was growing on top of the water and it smelled TERRIBLE!!  It took our land lords 2 weeks to get it properly clean up because they did not want to hire out the clean up job.  Greg had to take a day off work and we escaped to my moms house.  Unfortunatly Greg had to return home to work and some how put up with the awful smell until it was cleaned.  Our landlords never saw the mess and didn't really believe us when we told them about how terrible it was.
4.  The connection to our washer is not set up very well (another do it yourself project by the land lords) and it flooded our bedroom.  Some water soaked through the floor and dripped from the ceiling and wall downstairs.  Greg and I thought they would want some giant fans to dry out the walls but they are under some illusion that mold does not grow here and were not concerned.  Apparently this has happened before. 
5.  The dishwsher had been having problems.  At first the landlords said they would be up in 2 weeks to fix it then heard nothing from them.
6.  The heating element in the oven broke.  Thankfully I have a smart husband and he found a way to fix it after a couple of days.
7.  The house is 80 years old so heating it is a beast!  We still have to wear jackets and socks, and use blankets and a space heater to not be cold.   
8.  It just smells werid.  The smells come and go and being pregnant makes them even worse.

I CANNOT WAIT TO MOVE INTO MY BRAND NEW HOUSE!!!  The appliances will work, I can feel confident that my floors are clean, and it won't smell weird!!

Our house should be done at the end of May.  The foundation is already poured.  It sits on an acre lot and the house is just over 2800 sq ft, 6 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms.  We are having the basement finished so there will be 2 guess rooms if anyone wants to visit the great state of Idaho.  Every night I fall asleep thinking of all the wonderful memories we will make it our house.  Just 4 more months and we will be there!!     

2 comments:

Tannie Datwyler said...

Tee Hee. I am so so so sorry you have that crappy place. Though our house has a few quirks we love our rental. I am jealous of your house building though! I can't wait to see when it is done.

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