One of the things that I’m not keen on about having a house is that we’re responsible for all the repairs now. It was nice when we were living at the apartment complexes to be able to just call someone up if something wasn’t working properly or needed fixing and have them come and do it and not have to pay them. Now we can still just call someone up but we have to pay them, or we have to work out how to do it ourselves.
Since we’ve moved in both toilets have acted up. Thankfully we have some friends who are versed in maintenance and have helped us fix the toilets, and the leaky sink, because while I generally know my way around a computer, plumbing is not something I’m familiar with.
Painting I can handle, it’s just managing to do it without the munchkin trying to be “helpful” and painting is fun, but there are other tasks, which aren’t so fun. Our next task is to clean out the gutters, which are acting like they haven’t been cleaned out in a few years…which is possible given the house was empty before we bought it, and we haven’t cleaned the gutters yet and we’ve been here 10 months…on the upside it’s actually a repair where we shouldn’t need to buy anything. We don’t need industrial clamps, and I bought a ladder while we were building the shed, so that we could put the roof on. Phew!
