Made the call

 My darling husband finally made the call for help with some much needed repairs around here. He is used to doing everything himself, but not all things can be done that way anymore. Not just repairs but some areas need to be brought up to code. The AZ room is cold this time of year so we know that it will be HOT come summer. So Mark called a company to put in a heat pump in this room. They found some things that are not up to code so that will have to be fixed before they can even do the work we need done. They will be getting back to us with an estimate. Also a plumber is coming to look at and give us a bid on replacing the shallow, 6 inch deep kitchen sink and old faucets. AND.... the electricians will fix or replace the nonfunctioning exhaust fan in the bathroom. The exhaust fan in the bathroom does NOT exhaust, but just circulates the air. After taking a shower, the walls, towels, everything is wet. NOT good. We can't have all the humidity in the house, especially in the summer. It all make me wonder if the previous owners ever took a shower or cooked. About cooking, I've resolved to just putting up with the under sized range until it dies or needs repair. Replacing that will require new counter top and rebuilding that area. Geesh. I'll start saving now.

Mark put in a new RO system under the kitchen sink this last week. I drink quite a bit of water and the water was not tasting right when we moved here and it just kept getting worse.  So he was going to replace the filters. Not surprising, the filters were totally plugged and the water reserve tank was rusting on the bottom. We were lucky that we didn't get sick or worse. After a day or so of clearing out the new filters and tank, we had good water again. Many thanks to my loving, handy hubby.

The AZ room is so noisy with echo's and outside noise and cold  that we had to do something. It costs too much to replace the bogus single pane windows so we had to do something less expensive. We hung thermal, black out curtains yesterday. It made a big difference in the sound and it wasn't quite as chilly in here this morning either. It seems as though our time and money was not in vain. And the curtains look very nice in here too.

Considering we were told that everything worked well, we found that to not be the case. Gee, imagine that someone would not tell the whole truth. It's just one thing after another lately and we are tired and sore from all the extra work we were not anticipating.  Starting over at our age is no small feat. And it is too stressful with our medical issues. But with Gods help we will make it through this hurdle too. We have made it through much worse with His help.

Even though there was more work involved than we had hoped for, we do like our new home. It feels more comfortable each day. And it's beginning to look like our home with a few changes from other years.