Home Maintance that's easy and you don't think about!

There are many things that you can do around your house getting ready for the changing of the seasons! So this past week I worked to get my house ready for Fall. The first thing that we all know about Fall is that the leaves fall...duh! Cleaning your gutters can be an easy task that helps maintain your house quite a bit.


Dirty gutters can be the cause of water in your basement and overtime can cause foundation issues. It doesn't take much to clean them out and usually isn't really the dirtiest of jobs (that is unless you wait till spring to do it...yuck).

Be sure to clean your gutters!

-wn

Day 2-Making an office!

This past week has been a big push on working on the house. Victoria and I are working to make one of the bedrooms a more formal guest bedroom and work had to be done to get to the point. When I first bought this house their was a bedroom that was a young child's bedroom. It had red and blue paint on the wall, with wallpaper right down the middle. To make it even worse the carpet that they put into the bedroom was blue and on one of the far walls the name "Jordan" was imprinted on the wall. Now for years before I met my fiance' it was just a running joke that I had a child's bedroom in my house and when people came over to my house for the first time it really through them off, because they didn't know if I had a kid or not. I just refused to answer anything about the room to these people to make it more interesting. When Victoria and I got serious and she started seeing my house more I had to reassure her that I didn't have a kid. It was pretty funny. Now I found ourselves wanting an office and more room to work.

We started working on the room this past week and it took three coats of primer just to cover up the terrrible paint job that they left in the room. After it was finally covered, we repainted the room and began pulling up the blue carpet. It was a very messy and dirty task but the room has turned out well.

I would say that as of today the battle against working on the house has turned pretty good in our favor:)

DAY 1-Maintaining a House

Sitting here and thinking about what I would write about, nothing came to my mind. I asked my fiancé, Victoria, who is sitting next to me, "What do I talk about all the time?" She instantly turned to me and said, "Working on the house." So here I am! Sit back in your chairs and get ready for a treat.

When I first bought this house four years ago all I could think about is how great of an investment it was going to be. I wouldn't be paying rent anymore and I would have a place that I could call my own! Well you never really think about all the crap you have to do to maintain a house after four years and the best part about working on your house is that it always seems to need something done at the worst moment in time.

This past week I've been working pretty late on a project at work and haven't been getting home till later in the evening. Monday evening I got home about nine at night and came in started getting ready for bed. Usually when I work this late I just want to take a shower and crawl into bed and read. Well, the house gods decided this would be too easy Monday. When I turned on the shower and started washing up, I noticed the water wasn't running down the drain. So I reached down and pulled the plunger up and down a couple of times to no avail. I turned off the water and started staring at the drain. After a few minutes of "willing" it to work again and poking it with my finger, I decided that I probably should go downstairs and check out the drain pipes. If anyone has ever done any plumbing, they know, it can literally be a shitty job. I pull apart the drain pipes and the most foul substance know to man comes falling out onto me...I felt like a shit monster just slapped me in the face. I try my best not to let any of it touch my mouth and I squeeze my eyes shut as hard as I can. I blindly grab a towel out of the dirty clothes pile and start cleaning myself up. After cleaning myself off and giving the bird to the pipes a few times, I finally put back together everything and go back up to continue my shower. I hate plumbing. After my shower I make my way into the kitchen and as I was getting the coffee ready for the morning, I saw an ant on the countertop. I can't stand the sight of ants in a kitchen. I spray down the back lining of the countertops and clean everything. Ants...

I have passed the house gods test tonight and deserve a nights rest.