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, [...]

Dryer Vent

Since putting in the new kitchen we had one problem that I did not anticipate; how to run the dryer vent. Some people vent the clothes dryer into the basement, or someplace else inside, but this, in my opinion, is asking for trouble. All that water that was in your clothes is now in whatever [...]

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 part [...]

This started as a small project

Back a few years ago, my wife and I were looking to purchase a house. Nothing fancy, perhaps something that needed “some work” but was basically livable as is. I knew some basic home repair stuff, but was pretty ignorant regarding buying a house.

We had a real estate agent help us out. He would [...]