House Update

 Life has been pretty busy at the house lately. We have completely moved out of the inside of the old house. We moved our beds over friday after work. It was strange not having to go anywhere when we were done working. We are not done moving stuff tho. We still need to move a few tractors, a shed, a carport, a couple of grills and whatever else there is in the yard at the old house.

In addition to moving this past weekend, We moved the sewer vent in the attic and ran new water lines. Tim from down the street came over to help in the attic. It was a tight fit to move the sewer vent. We did not want to cut a new hole in the roof so we made the new line meet up with the old line. There was only just on problem - the AC ducts for the house made it almost impossible to work over in that area. Only my Tim could fit in the area. He was laying on his side with no room to get the vent taken care off.

We also decided to run water lines in the attic. It was easier to go from the water lines under the AC/Heat Unit up the wall and through the attic and then down. If we did not do that, we would have had to jack hammer all the way back to the closet and set all new pipes. You cannot add on to existing pipes unless you do a J-Box and we did not have room for that.

Since Saturday was so hot and busy, we decided to take an easy on Sunday. We decided to hook up the new water heater that we got from some friends. Everything was going good until a shut off valve broke. It was nothing that we did to it. So we had to run all the way across town to visit Home Depot for a new valve and some other parts that we needed in order to get hot water.

Later that day, we serviced the AC unit. It had been freezing up a lot. I had control of the AC valves while we added freon to the system. I was afraid that I would add too much. If I did that, we would have caused the compressor to lock up. That would not be a great thing. We would have to replace the entire unit. Glad that I was able to get it right. The AC has not been frozen since we did that.

We also hung the cabinets in the laundry room. It is not done yet. Still have some work to do like shelves and the sheet rock.

With no kitchen and no dishwasher, I have been washing dishes in our tub. It is nice to not have to heat up water anymore to do dishes.

Mom has been very busy getting the tile laid in the kitchen. She finished putting all the tile down yesterday. Today she was planning to grout what is left. The kitchen floor looks really nice now. I cannot wait to start moving in cabinets and having a kitchen again. We might work on the refridgerator corner. We wan wire for the fridge last night along with wire for my under the counter lights. We still need to run wire for the microwave. Other than that and the oven, all the wire has been run in the kitchen. We just need to run an outlet in the library but that is not extremely important right now.

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We still have to connect all the water lines we ran the other day. So we will be working on that for the next few days. I will also be working on putting cabinets together so we move them into the kitchen.