Under repair.....

We have been having some long needed repairs done to our house. After we decided to buy our house and move in we found out that the person who built our house was a "wanna-be" house constructor. Seems he bought this parcel of land and started "building" houses. He knew just enough to make them look good, but unfortunately he was not a master house builder. As our house is outside of town, there were a lot of things in the house that was not inspected like in most homes. In other words, somethings are not up to code...so to speak. Of course, we did not find these things out until we were already in the house. Because our house in Lindsborg had not sold, we could not get financing to buy this house. My Dad stepped up to the plate and put this house in his name until we could get our other house sold and refinance this one. My Dad chose not to have this house inspected...after all the house was only a few years old...it looked good and to "borrow" the money he did not have to have the house inspected. We were saving money not to have it inspected. WRONG!

The latest project we are having done is getting the sheet rock in our living room re-taped, but most importantly, we are getting it securely attached to the ceiling. Here we have been relaxing in our living room, thinking that life was grand, when the sheet rock at anytime could have come plunging down upon our heads!!





Thankfully we found someone through our friends, Sophie and Gary, who is dependable and willing to come out and fix our mess. And mess it has been. He had to firmly attach the sheet rock to the ceiling, then re-mud all the cracks, then sand all the mud down, and finally paint the ceiling. We really love our cathedral ceilings in our living room. That was one of the things about the house that we were first drawn to. It will be so nice once all the scaffolding, plastic and mud is gone and we can enjoy our living room again!





This is what our living room has looked like for the past week. Hopefully he will be done by Tuesday this week. Then I can shampoo the carpet and enjoy our living room!!