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.