It is official. We signed the papers on the 15th of September and now have a place to spend all free money and time (as if we all need an excuse.) I took a few days from work and we spent our first long weekend making the old double wide habitable. First I got the air conditioning functioning. The visits there would be pretty miserable without it. I also re-hooked-up the septic system and got the well pump up and running so that we would have running water for the toilets and such. After all of that productivity, the rest of the weekend was spent just relaxing and doing smaller less important tasks like sweeping and cleaning toilets etc... As I have mentioned before, the place was empty for a year and had not been kept up for much longer than that so our work is cut out for us. There was a water heater that had ruptured over the winter while the trailer was empty and flooded the majority of the home so all of the flooring has been removed and the first vertical foot or so of the sheet-rock has been removed as well. In a way, this creates more work to finish it out but I like to think that now there is less carpet to remove (it was blue shag.) Here is a visual so you can see how the place looks with "underwall ventilation" Fortunately for now, the toilet in the first pic is inoperable so any awkwardness is avoided.
We have also picked out some exterior paint so we can at least make the place look good from the outside. Plus it really needs it. Here is a before and I will include some afters once it is done. Other than that, Our time on site is limited for now to weekends. This make tackling large projects difficult for lack of an ability to finish them, or at least get to a stopping point before having to pack up and head back home.This weekend we plan on continuing with the water lines that need repairing and hopefully get a new toilet installed. Living for the weekends...
