First problem was the toilet that had plumbing that wasn't right. Big E fixed that.
Then when he went and knocked the wall out and got to the water pipes so he can hook the fridge up he found out the previous owner must have tried to fix the pipes because instead of using copper he used metal pipes. So now there's a slight leak and it's rusting (which explains the very brief brown water when you first turn on the boys' tub).
Then a couple nights ago (or yesterday morning since it was 4am) I woke up with Squirt because it was his time to eat and I noticed it was hot, so I went to lower the air and saw it was on 70 (which my father-in-law had to do when he was watching the kids while we were out because we normally keep it on about 73. my father-in-law likes it to be an ice box in his house, it drove me nuts when we lived there) so I thought maybe it was just me because I just got out from under blankets. Or maybe the power went off. So I sat in the chair in the living room to feed Squirt and Big E came out saying he was hot too and noticed the air wasn't working. Then tried 10 times to lower it to see if it'd work. Then went outside. I guess the compressor (?) might be bad. The fan is working. So we were stressed over that because that's more money thinking we'd have to pay for someone to come fix it.
Then I remembered we had a warranty, so we looked and saw it covers the air. Except each call someone comes out for is $75 (unless they fix something and it breaks again within 60 days then it's free). But $75 is better than what we would pay out of pocket (granted, if it's something little that we can just fix ourselves for less than $75 then we'll just fix it). So we called to schedule that (it's 24 hours but takes a day to get your request in) and we decided to just schedule a plumber to come out to fix the pipes. Even though Big E can do it, he's not 100% positive he can do it right so he doesn't want to mess it up, so $75 to know it's being done right is worth it.
The A/C guy is coming out today but I don't know what time he's coming. I was hoping early but it doesn't look like it.
Thankfully we have 2 window units from when we lived in NY, but the one in the living room is only helping slightly since it's a big area. The other one is in Squirt's room since I worried about it being too hot in his room, and it's working great in there. Little E has a ceiling fan in his room (Squirt doesn't until we install it) so that's why I didn't put the a/c in his. But his curtains are dark too so I have them closed to try to help keep it cool too.
So, yea, we're having a great time in this house. It just made me upset last night and hate this place again. We haven't been able to really do much of what we wanted to do because of the random stuff we've had to replace instead now. And we're already over budget, and will be more because we need to get the shelving in the bedroom done so I can finally put clothes away.
Hopefully we're done after that. and we'll be about $1300 over budget after that's all done. And it barely looks like we did anything.
Yay for home ownership. I can't wait till I can just unpack and not have to deal with these problems anymore.
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