Sometimes I think the title of this blog should be something similar to Lemony Snicket’s “A Series of Unfortunate Events.” The last month has been full of craziness, which as you should have come to expect by now, is nothing new. To start off, it took us two weeks of cold showers to get the new […]
New Water Heater – AKA The FrankenHeater
So, we obviously couldn’t just run to the big box store, install a new water heater, and be done. It’s us…you know, we’re the people where it costs twice as much and takes three times as long as budgeted. Going into this project we got three quotes on our options for a new water heater. […]
A New Water Heater on the Horizon
I should have known that I wouldn’t be able to wrap up last week’s water leak in a neat little bow and forget about it like last year’s Christmas presents….that I forgot I bought in July, and are still shoved in the top of a closet somewhere. Sometimes it doesn’t pay to for me to think I’m on […]
Eeek! A Water Leak!
I think I just created a little panic in my poor husband. I don’t always get rattled when it comes to these issues with our house. But when I see this in the garage I know it’s either refrigerator or freezer going out hot water heater going out pipe leak All of these scenarios cost […]
More Foundation Work…Is it Groundhog Day?
Did I not get the memo? I feel like I’m in my own personalized version of the movie “Groundhog Day.” (Only I’m not as funny or as cool as Bill Murray.) The alarm goes off. I get up and you got it…more of the same kind of dirty underground work on our house again. Like this… […]
Sewer Fix Part Deux
Or maybe this should be titled any pile of dirt gives me a feeling of Deja-vu. And maybe somewhat of a desire to sit in the corner of this money pit and drink an entire bottle of wine. (We won’t talk about that one.) We’re back to trying to get the second upstairs bathroom tied […]
The Day of the Flood
By all accounts, Friday morning started off pretty great. No kids were up yet, the house was quite. The dogs were quietly napping beside me and I was enjoying my first cup of coffee in some much needed peace and quiet. When I hear it… blub… Wait, was that a kid awake upstairs? What a weird […]
When Your House Becomes a Money Pit
I have had this post sitting in “draft” mode for months now. I think because it was just kind of hard to write. It’s that moment of “what have we gotten ourselves into?!” and “this house is going to bleed us dry!” Brace yourself for a novel. Let me back up a little. We bought […]
Foundation Repair
We moved into this house just over 2 years ago. At the time, we thought we might have a little foundation work to do in the dining room. We called it the “fun house” room. You could walk in and feel just a little off. Honestly, the thought of a little foundation work really didn’t […]