Light blogging over the last few weeks has been for a good reason: Saturday we moved into our new house, just three months after the "big digger" showed up. Leslie, the GC (general contractor), tells us that the certificate of occupancy was granted one year to the day after she mailed the brochure we'd requested. So: that's how long it takes to build a modular house in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Friends came over to help us move all the big pieces. "This is interesting," one said as he carried boxes down the steps of one house, out the door, across both yards, and into the house next door. "Never helped with a move like this one." We left a lot of odds and ends, as well as... detritus... of various sorts, in the old house to deal with over the course of a couple of weeks. It's got to be cleaned from top to bottom, and much of it has to be repainted, so it won't set back the sale very long to go through the junk a little more slowly.
The first day, we discovered a few bugs. The shower in the master bathroom ran and ran and never got warm. Was the water heater not set right? I had to go to the basement and read the owner's manual to find out! (Yes, 120 deg F.) Must be the mixing valve. Call Leslie! After dinner, a puddle appeared under the dishwasher. Hmm. Call Leslie! Then we discovered that when you turn off the light from the top of the basement stairs, all the lights in the basement go out as well. Call Leslie!
We're still eating dinner on a wobbly card table, and I spent $500 today at Wal-Mart and IKEA getting things like toilet brushes and laundry baskets and chairs and spare sheets for the guest room (Mark's parents come up to visit this week to help frame walls and sew curtains and that sort of thing). But it's starting to feel pretty good.
Pics to follow when I figure out which box has my camera.
congratulations!
Posted by: alicia | 24 January 2006 at 08:56 PM