I bought a house

Congrats! It looks quite nice!  It appears to have a vaulted ceiling in the main area behind the front door?  I also always have liked split level homes.

Nice, congrats! Your weekends will never be filled with TV ever again, there will be something to do to the house that will take up most of your time.

mbro wrote: Now I get to look forward to planting my big garden and landscaping.

Something will always conspire to keep you away from the parts of the honey-do list you actually enjoy. Today, got the mailbox post repainted, put up the newly painted numbers, planted some bulbs around the post, and put a new planter on the tree stump in the middle of our round garden in the front yard and when I went to water everything, I noticed a lack of pressure from the hose.

Turns out our "frost free" spigot wasn't so frost free. Luckily the split/break is forward of the valve, so we don't have to worry about water getting into the house unless we turn it on.

Now I get to crawl into the space under the powder room and next to the well pressure tank and pump connections to fix the leak. Only problem is that the space I have to crawl into is 5' off the ground, behind the heating oil tank, and filled with spiders..... UGH!

Very nice!

tallen702 wrote: mbro wrote: Now I get to look forward to planting my big garden and landscaping. Something will always conspire to keep you away from the parts of the honey-do list you actually enjoy. Today, got the mailbox post repainted, put up the newly painted numbers, planted some bulbs around the post, and put a new planter on the tree stump in the middle of our round garden in the front yard and when I went to water everything, I noticed a lack of pressure from the hose. Turns out our "frost free" spigot wasn't so frost free. Luckily the split/break is forward of the valve, so we don't have to worry about water getting into the house unless we turn it on. Now I get to crawl into the space under the powder room and next to the well pressure tank and pump connections to fix the leak. Only problem is that the space I have to crawl into is 5' off the ground, behind the heating oil tank, and filled with spiders..... UGH!

Yeah there's always a new issue. I enjoy fixing the bigger projects, it's the little things that you don't see coming that take up all your time. I imagine in the next three years I'll get rudely interrupted to put on a new roof. It should have at least seven years left but I'm sure something will happen the day before I'm going to go on vacation.

DaveEllis wrote: I bought a townhouse at the end of January. This weekend's project was fixing a leaky tub faucet, I pulled out the cartridge and there was what looked like PVC shavings in it.

Niiice!

I'm with MBro on the whole roof thing. Probably have to replace it way sooner than later. The question is, will we have enough money to go with a standing seam metal roof that will last 50+ years, or do we go with asphalt or architectural shingles which last 15-30 years respectively but cost about a third-to-half as much?

Oh, and my driveway is cracked badly. It's asphalt. Not sure how much of a need it is to fix that right away though. Honestly, I'd rather rip it all out and either go with pavers, or dyed concrete.

One thing on roofs my dad learned the hard way.  If you go with regular shingles, make sure you put them on on a hot day.  My parents had theirs redone when it was cooler and cloudy out.  The wind picked up later that week and started ripping shingles off.  Apparently it was too cold out for the tar on the underside of the shingles to bond.

Also a possibility.

Nice house! 

Apparently every plumber in the late 80s had those red and yellow service stickers. My house is littered with them.