| Jul. 7th, 2009 @ 05:50 pm Projects |
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The other day I started a list of projects I want to do around the house.
Both safety measures in anticipation of trouble, and also maintenance in anticipation of selling in a few years. It turns out we have a murderous garage without a safety sensor, and silly things like the oven not being bracketed to the wall. The exterior upkeep of the whole complex seems to be pretty crappy. Our neighbor painted both his porches over the last year and frequently suggests that we do the same, so I figured we may as well. So I solicited his advice, as he has the paint forumulations and all.
Today we bleached the mold and mildew off the back porch. Turned out pretty well. Horrifyingly, when I turned on the hose to rinse paint started flying off the railings. I knew we would need to scrape, but I didn't really expect water to get the job started. So it will be a bit bigger job than I had anticipated.
Another surprise we got was that the outside spigot that has never worked does in fact have a valve, and the neighbor showed us where it was. EP turned it, and water started flying across the garage, because the pipe had been cut. There was some evidence of repaired damage in the ceiling of the garage where one would expect the pipe to run, so perhaps there was some nightmarish disaster. So out options are to leave it alone, or have a plumber come in and reattach the pipe and see if disaster recurs and go from there.
I have quite a long list of obvious things that our inspector didn't see. Pretty frustrating. I am composing a letter in my head to our realtor proclaiming the shoddy work by said inspector (sure, they're not supposed to find everything - but an exposed pipe that isn't attached to anything?) |
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