We bought this house. Unbeknownst to us, we got much more than we bargained for, in the bad department. It was a fixer upper, that much we knew. In 2004, the home inspection business was not regulated in NY state. We hired a “home inspector” on the recommendation of the real estate agent. When he [...]
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Well Pump Installation
This is a big one. In September of 2005 we discovered that our well was not really on our property. In fact, it was located across the street! That means that if anything happens to the pipe coming from the well to our house we are basically out of luck since the [...]
Purchasing somebody else’s vacation home
I have mentioned in a previous post, that we purchased a house which had been used as a vacation home for the first 30 years of it’s existence. I occurred to me that most of the problems with this house stemmed from that situation alone.
In engineering, we call it entropy. That is, when [...]
Crawl Spaces
We have two crawl spaces under the additions to the main house, which were built in the late 1960’s. The original house has a full basement, which is nice because it is a good place to locate heating equipment, the oil tank, the hot water tank, the well tank, etc. Some of our [...]
Termites
Here is a subject that I have gained great deal of first hand knowledge about:
The wonderful world of wood destroying pests. In nature, these creatures serve the needed purpose of breaking down wood products back into their base compounds which are mostly carbon dioxide, water, and a few other elements. Once the larger [...]
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