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We now have a working furnace, the last piece of the new house puzzle. At least, the last piece for now. We obviously have many more things we eventually want to do with this house, but for now we are going to enjoy it as it is and pay down some debt ( Read more... )

So, we now have three quotes in for the furnace. Now I have to decide who to go with ( Read more... )

After many hours of cleaning, draining, filling, draining, and cleaning by Emily, our hot tub is up and running again. Let me tell you, it's darn relaxing. Running on one filter though it may be, and being a few dozen litres low in water, we (Erin, Emily, and I) braved the cool night to have a nice soak. The water level was too low to turn on ( Read more... )

Unfortunately, and predictably, the outcome of our duct cleaning was that we need a new furnace. Our old furnace is 25 years-old and was generating a small amount of Carbon Monoxide (4 parts per million). We decided to go ahead with replacing it, although our detector has been reading 0 ppm since the cleaning. We are taking quotes right now, and ( Read more... )

So, we are getting close to finishing up the first batch of repairs/changes to the house. Here is a more or less complete list of the things we have done/will have done in the very near future:

• CLEANED - Everything from floors, to walls, to windows, to ceiling fans, to the hot tub, to the washer and drier. Notably missing are the air ducts. Did ( Read more... )

I love long weekends. Of course, going to work after they end really sucks. On the plus side: four-day work week ( Read more... )

Okay, so I am back at work after 6 straight days of moving. I will try to summarize the "vacation" time ( Read more... )

So, tomorrow is the last day ever until we own a new house. How crazy is that? Let me put it another way: after tomorrow we own a house! Try to wrap your head around it ( Read more... )

We now have less than 4 days until our house closes. On closing day we are going to paint three rooms (one large, one medium, one small) and rip out some carpet. Saturday morning the movers come to move our furniture, and in the afternoon we move our boxes. Sunday we give the keys to our current apartment to the new tenents. Tomorrow is my last ( Read more... )