First Trip As Our New House

Here we are, working in the 90* temps on the new house in Pioche, sweating our butts off. 

The house needs absolutely everything done to it and we hope we're up for the challenge.

This is what we saw when we arrived, the front door wide open. It was locked, but it didn't stay closed. 

Lan had to reframe the entire front wall and door to get it straight and he put in a deadbolt that keeps it closed. 

Looking from the front door looking to the left, this is the view. Vines taking over the Cressent berry bushes and Toms house

To the right is the pile of wood from inside the house that the previous owners removed and we added to. Every single 2x4 had many nails in it, none we were worth trying to save to make into sawhorses. 

This is the view from across the road toward our house

And this is the area between the fence and road. We have been told the is county property but we want to ask the county itself. If its ours we will move the fence out there. I'd like to have a better fence or no fence at all but it seems everyone in town like fences.

This is inside the house just before we left it. We had purchased all new matching cordless tools so they all use the same batteries to make the work go easier. Before we left, Lan buried them behind the old insulation. UGH. 

If you look closely, you can see that he built that whole front wall. The right side wall still needs support, its got dry rot for about 12 feet and no 2x4s so he will go back in September to do a good amount of work to get it set up for winter.  

I purchased a bunch of car window cover sun shades that I hung in these windows that really worked to cut the heat and I'm glad I thought of that. That window A/C unit over there still works too. All the windows have storm windows too so the broken ones have glass as well. ALL the windows will be replaced. They all measure 2x4 currently but I want MUCH bigger ones especially in the front of the house. Small windows SUCK. 

I know that we can install windows ourselves and we can do them one at a time as we build the walls. I'll just make it a point of purchasing one window a month or something and taking them with us as we go down there to work. Heck. the whole house will only have 6-8 windows in it.

I want a nicer door too.

 

Its Ours!

We have made the payment and its officially our house and now we have to figure out what the heck we're going to do with it.

We're driving down this next week to spend some time there & probably build so interior supporting walls. We'll only have 2.5 days at the house so we won't get a lot done.

We have decided to take Soren down with us because he's never been on a vacation. I'll take my bike for him to ride and he can own the town. He can help us do a little cleaning up and work too.

I've bought him a bunch of toys and snacks. 

I've also bought chewable Dramamine so in case he gets car sick he can eat one & it will make him better; it will also make him sleep.

I want to get rid of all the old insulation, its ruined from the dope/drugs that were used inside the house while it was a rental.

I have so much stuff here for the house that we need to take down there but its going to be a very tight squeeze.

Just called my FIL, hes going to let us take his RV and we'll have plenty of room AND nice clean places to sleep. We could even pull the small trailer behind it for hauling shit to the dump.

BUT 

We could haul that same trailer behind the escape too and put some crap on it and have room in the car for us. Pulling a trailer is slower.

The Escape alone will cost about $450 in fuel

The RV would be about $950

The escape pulling the trailer would probably cost about $200 more in fuel and take longer and we're not even sure the escape can do it. Its got a lot of miles on it and already having a few issues.

So I guess I'm going to be purchasing the tabs ($125) for the RV and filling it with gas.

And water, I've gotta fill it with water too.