It was recently pointed out to me by one of my friends that I dont blog enough. Sorry Shelb! This is why I dont blog for a living. I am terrible at it. I get too busy and have a million things going on. Plus, theres nothing that I fully 100% endorse besides Coconut Oil and Caseys Pizza so I wouldnt have any affliate links to make money off of (unless Caseys wants to send me coupons for their Taco pizza).
We have been very busy in the past couple months. We had a deadline for the appraisal of our house for February 1st. Sanding took WAY longer than what we anticipated, and while we were sanding and varnishing we couldnt really have anyone else in there doing things as our floors were down to bare wood and we didnt want any scuffs, scratches or water marks from snow, so we kicked everyone out and spent WAY too much time doing it.
Honestly, if Nick and I make it through this house remodel we can make it through anything. Of all the problems with the house the sanding and varnishing process caused the most arguments. Just gonna be real, because things arent always peaches and cream. Since we were in panic about our deadline we had to cancel NYE plans, leave Christmas celebrations early and say no more than what we already have been, which was a real bummer in itself. We eventually went to the bank and they extended our deadline till April 1st. (WERE STILL IN PANIC MODE THOUGH) BUT check out our fabulous floors Here
And of course, while working we classically ran into more problems. While my step-dad was working on the plumbing in the basement he noticed our water heater was about 15 years old. Classic. So on top of buying a softner we bought a new water heater and water filtration system as well. While he was installing that he noticed a giant hole in our exhaust pipe from our boiler system that was crappily taped up. Aka everytime it kicked on it was just puffing back carbon monoxide into the house. The best part? When we first got into the house Nick said the carbon monoxide detector in the house was going off and he unplugged it because he thought the batteries were dying. (Serious face palm)
I CANT MAKE THIS UP PEOPLE.
Anyway,
Since then we had to call Stantons and they came to tell us that the problem was that our chimney didnt have a cap on it so it was just raining, snowing etc in our chimney and our chimny liner needed to be replace. LOL. F***. Nick told me this on the phone and I was like for sure going to cost us thousands. He only quoted us at $500 so we said DEAL. I was quite surprised after convincing myself it was going to be $5000 and we were just going to have to sell our money pit.
Here are a few updated pics. And I promise to not let it be 3 months before I update my blog again. (Maybe).
