Bumps on the road

It seems like we have not done much but on every step we took we found something else that needed to be done first. The clean-up was quite a task.

For those familiar with gardening, weeding and getting rid of unwanted plants is an exhausting job, especially when you have established root systems that have wrapped around sprinklers and everything else that they have found on their way to the water.

We had to do a lot of digging in order to get rid of all unwanted plants and weeds. We also needed to get rid of excess dirt, so a lot of scooping out and carrying it out to the back of the house, which we will get rid of later, in fact we spread some around the backyard, since we will resod anyway and it will be replaced in the soil with rain.

When patching walls, we also realized there were a lot of nails and screws still in the walls, so we needed to spend some time digging those things out, which was time consuming.

Getting rid of the wasps, phew! spray-spray-spray and we are still spraying and scrubbing the left out dead nests by hand, so the little beasts do not come back looking for their old home.

Cleaning the old linoleum tiles...oh my gosh...I am still hurting from that. When my husband pulled the tiles out, one by one, he found out that a horrible ssticky residue was left on the concrete. Started scrubbing and using a chisel, nothing. So we got a liquid designed to get the stickiness off, which works, though you have to be on your knees with a kind of chisel-ripper, as I called it, and get the stuff out. It looks like gooey stuff when it comes out and it really burns if it gets on your hands. We finally got it ou but we still have to do the laundry room which also have those ugly plastic -linoleum tiles. After all that is taken off, we still have to sand it to get whatever is left out and get it ready for the ceramic tile, otherwise out tile will not stick! No way.

Another big bump was buying the wrong paint. My husband was advised to buy WalMart Paint, Color Place I believe is called, so we did. Darn! We should have never done it. 4 hours after trying to pain one room, the one with the pink stripe, we realized the paint was no good. It did not stretch, and it did not cover at all. So we returned it and got Behr! What a difference, that is one day later. So we wasted one day.

Some things that will have to wait are the patio, lanai, and garage, that we will do when we move in. Since they are not really living areas, we are not really worried. We also have big plans for those areas.

The kitchen will have to do for now, we plan a complete remodeling so we will just repaint for now, change sink, change countertop, and make it the best we can. I will post my plans for now and later in a whole new post since Kitchen is one of the big projects for me.

We also have a wall that need to be ripped apart. They  (prev owner) tried to patch a hole in the wall with some material, and it looks just awful. So it will be replaced tomorrow, I hope.

I will be painting all trim and doors for the next few days. Hopefully my husband can start laying tile and by next week we could probably have the carpet installed. Unfortunately, we cannot install carpet untill tile is done because of the lay-out we have planned. I will post later.