Friday, August 1, 2008

Things to do

It's been a while since I've updated everyone on what's going on with the house.
We have received the lights that were on back order and they've been installed. The knobs and pulls for the cabinets have been installed. In fact, most of what we've been waiting for has been completed. We have a new list started with things that we've slowly been finding. Both Dave and Tom have urged us to begin making a list of things that "aren't quite right" so that they can be fixed. So far the only things that we've found are little cosmetic things like paint next to a door frame that looks mis-colored.
There are a few bigger things that need to be taken care of that we've discovered now that we've moved in:
The magnet on the front door for the security system was installed in the construction door, and wasn't moved to the permanent door.
The front door, during heavy winds, lets air through the bottom. This apparently can be fixed by adjusting the bottom of the door, which Pella is going to come out and do for us.
The downstairs little window well filled up with water that last big storm we had, and then proceeded to leak water into the basement. This happened before the landscaping was completed. The window well was raised back up to it's proper height, the well was dug out a bit more to make it deeper and the ground was shaped to aid drainage away from this window.

Some fun news: I had to mow the yard for the first time this week. It took about an hour and 15 minutes. I wimped out and mowed the back yard on Tuesday (45 minutes) and mowed the front yard on Thursday (30 minutes). I've decided that I need a new lawn mower. The one that I have is pretty old, has a 21" blade and is barely self-propelled. I wonder how long it'll take me to wear Jill down to convincer her I need a new one.

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