Great News Everyone! They’ve Fixed the Slime Pipes!
Able were back today to finish the work. Around lunchtime, a county inspector arrived to check things over. I was all excited that I could give…
Category: Projects
End of Day One: Septic tank in place, and we can flush the toilets!
Things are not done yet though. The outbound end isn’t connected to the leach fields and the inlet isn’t fully connected, but we can take a…
More Pics of the Septic Work
The hole is now much, much bigger and the pieces of the old tank were trucked away. The crew is now readying the hole for…
Septic Day!
The previous owners had a new septic put in over ten years ago, but in all that time never had it pumped. When we were…
Before and After Roof Comparison
For final comparison, here are pics of the great room roof and linen/entry roof before and after the roof work. All the tar and paper…
We have pretty electrons now
When we were in escrow and having inspections done, the electrical service to the house was noted to only have 175 amps. For out here…
More Flooring Tales
I did some research online as we have teak parquet flooring throughout half of the house. It is original to the house and was looking…
New Floors…almost
When we bought the house, the carpets in the north office (now my office) and the PO’s daughter’s bedroom (the purple room) were in awful…
Big green monster
New tank! Also, a sufficient crane.
Our house had an ouchy
One of the big projects here prior to moving in was redoing the flat roofs. We know that there were leaks in both the foyer…
Well that didn’t go very well…
Epic fail on the well tank removal project. I have no clue how they’re going to fix this and we’re very lucky nothing rolled down…
The long week has begun
Last night I spent my first night at Purgatory. Yesterday morning we loaded up Barbie (the Ford F150) and Agent Smith drove her down to Sunnyvale.…
A week in review?
The image below is the view of the house compound from our well. The well sits about 200 feet above the house. (Walking anywhere on our…
Mister Gorbachev…
We have something of a wall problem. Or a lack of wall problem, depending on where you stand. On the west side, there’s an old…
Driveway of cracks
Our driveway is slated to be repaired and resealed Monday and Tuesday of next week. Today when I was at the property, I took some pictures…
Bad Pipes
One thing that came up during the house inspection during escrow was the state of the drain pipes servicing the kitchen and laundry. I ended…
What a week…
It’s been a busy week and it’s hard to believe we took possession of the property less than two weeks ago. I’ve been a very busy…
So much to do
Yesterday we spent a bit of time exploring the new house. It is quite strange being there on our own, as we try to settle…
The list of crap we have to do…
So while the house is stable enough, we need to tighten things up quite a bit. The short list of starter projects: 1. Roof–get rid…