Let's Build A House!: Final Countdown

Monday, September 12, 2011

Final Countdown

Seventeen more hours to go!!

Watch the countdown this week!!!

We should be opening Escrow at the end of this week too!!!!

Whoo Hoo!!!!!

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Ephesians 3:20 List

1. a house

2. 3 bedrooms

3. a yard (for the dog and for us!)

4. an affordable mortgage payment (it will probably be less than what we pay in rent now)

5. a 2 car garage, with a driveway for parking, and extra parking only steps from our door (I don't have to carry the groceries all the way upstairs from the parking lot anymore!)

6. a place for a washing machine and a dryer in my own house

7. money to pay our down payment and enough extra to buy a brand new washer and dryer and even new couches (hopefully there will still be enough. With the stock market right now, we hope there is enough)

8. in the kitchen is a pantry! Probably more than twice the storage we have now, with a pantry for food!

9. our house is in Oceanside with a perfect breeze. Our apartment is not very well insulated, and it doesn't have air conditioning. Right now, during this little heat wave, our apartment gets to about 85-90 degrees inside in the afternoon and doesn't cool off. We sleep on top of our blankets with the fans on high, sweating in our bed

10. Our house is in a neighborhood that Habitat built. The whole street is all families like us, who worked their sweat equity hours to get out of a less than ideal living situation. Many of the families have children and our kids will grow up with them.

11. Our street is a very private cul-de-sac. Very safe for our kids to play outside, ride their bikes, hang out at the end of the street...

12. our house was built in a blitz, which means we are able to move in sooner! The average Habitat house is built in 9 months....ours was built in 5 days.

13. Our house was the house in the blitz built by the professional builder.....not much more is needed to be said.

14. The builder added finish details to our house that make it slightly nicer than the other Habitat homes. Those details are numbers 15-21.

15. wood detailed banister

16. chrome door knobs

17. recessed fire sprinklers with caps

18. white tile counter tops

19. upgraded moulding

20. upgraded carpet

21. a $4000 air conditioner (not that we even thought we would want central air conditioning because of our built-in breeze)

22. At the end of the Blitz week, we received a few gifts. Numbers 23-25

23. A bible from Habitat for Humanity

24. A beautiful framed canvas print of our family with the signatures of many of the volunteers and workers who worked during the Blitz week

25. a "Welcome Home" laundry basket full of home goods from Swinterton Builders, the professional builder that built our house.

26. Solar Panels on our roof to pay for our electricity

27. The neighbor behind us has an avocado tree that hangs over our fence. Free avocados!!

28. At least two christian families on our street. Probably more.

29. At the end of the Blitz Build, when our house was being cleaned, one of the workers was wheeling out a brand new mop and bucket that they had used to clean with and asked if I wanted it! Yeah!! Its the industrial size yellow bucket on wheels that has the squeeze thingy!! Whoo!!

Skills I've learned

-Framing drain pipes

-Installing insulation

-Caulking

-How to use a circular saw

-How to put together cable protectors/road strips

-How to climb a really tall ladder (coming down is the hardest)

-Maneuvering around scaffolding.....very high scaffolding

-fire sealing - pumping fire retardent foam into holes

-house wrapping

-installing doorknobs and deadbolts

-steering a wheelbarrow safely

-cutting carpet pieces for door mats/using a utility knife

-cutting and installing siding panels

-nailing in nail plates

-tightening cabinets

-changing around cabinet doors, so they open the other direction

-grout sealing

-understanding our sewer system

-staining cabinets

-caulking with waterproof sealer around shower and bathtub

-filling screw holes

-filling cracks in grout

-repairing cracks in ceiling

-using impact drill (for drilling into tile and cement)

-installing anti-tip bracket for range

-grouting

-building framed lattice pieces/panels

-hanging blinds

-securing water and drain pipes in cabinet area with pipe clamps

-patching holes in walls with joint compound and drywall tape

-using a hack saw

-cutting angles with hack saw

-trimming cabinets

Let's Build A House!

Monday, September 12, 2011

Final Countdown

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