I'm Replacing This House...One Piece at a Time!

At least that's what it seems like! {grin} The day we moved in, just as we were leaving to go back to the motel for the night (since we didn't have beds yet!) the fire alarm went off. Maybe that was the warning sign? We looked around but didn't see any smoke, so we called the housing office and told them about it. They said they would send the maintenance man over (Dave, as we have become on a first name basis by now LOL!) He came and was perplexed as to why it was going off, but gave us a new alarm (we could have used some Tylenol too by that point). That was visit #1.

Well, as you move into a house, you find problems with a house...and this house was no exception. He was back to look at a broken window (which was later fixed), to look at the garbage disposal which we felt was not working properly but he said was fine (but keep reading {grin}, and other smaller jobs. We started joking that he should stay for dinner since he was becoming like family. Then...came the BIG jobs...

The stairs were AWFUL! They were steep, SLICK (from years of sock-shined use) and treacherous! With my foot, I was worried about slipping down them, and of course...that's exactly what I did! I then felt like I was scaling mountains--hanging on the hand rail for dear life both up and down the stairs. That worried Steven enough, he was over at housing requesting a solution. So about a week later, here come maintenance people AGAIN to put carpet on the stairs for me! MUCH nicer!!

Our next adventure was the sink...we opened the cabinet underneath to get a soda out and Stevie says "what's all the water" (never a good statement to hear). Dave came out and decided he had to replace part of the sink. Then about two days later, after opening the cabinet...again with the water! This time Dave decides the garbage disposal (yes, the same one he said was fine) was cracked and leaking all over the cabinet) so now I have a NEW garbage disposal that WORKS! (what a concept--a garbage disposal that actually can grind the food??!!)

About this time, we are laughing about "What next?" It was funny until Steven is getting ready for work...comes down the stairs and steps in a BIG puddle of water. Several of my ONLY UNPACKED bath towels later, he determines the water heater is pouring water all over the downstairs {sigh}. A day of no water (which is probably okay--since all my bath towels are dripping) later...we have a new water heater (a BIGGER NICER new water heater)!

So if you have been counting...that's a new fire alarm, new sink (left side drain, new garbage disposal...and my new faucet from an earlier post), new carpet, new window and new water heater...all within two weeks of moving in!