After a few weeks, due to a complication or two, our deck is finally done! Thanks again to Nick for all his hard work in building it!
Pictures after the break.
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I spent the last couple nights rewiring a good share of our furnace room. A little background, when they built our house they installed a very basic thermostat. It wasn’t even programmable. But after a gas bill that I would consider to be excessive, it was time to change that.
I could’ve just swapped it out for a $20-30 5-2 programmable model you can get anywhere but that’s before I heard of the Honeywell IAQ from the fountain of all knowledge. It’s a state-of-the-art system that controls everything to keep it running as efficient as possible. You can only find them on eBay since they’re only sold to contractors. But since the cheapest I saw them for on eBay was $130, I had to talk to the wife. After telling her the whole story with absolutely no bias whatsoever (I swear!), she surprisingly said, “well I live with a geek, we pretty much HAVE to get the cool one!”
Fortunately, I managed to snipe one off eBay for a mere $96. Tonight, I got the fun of drilling a hole in the side of the house so I could run an outdoor temperature sensor. Check out the attached pictures. This little beauty is now controlling our furnace, A/C, humidier and air exchanger.
(No comments about the outside temperature!)
That’s right, the big move-in day is tomorrow! We have our final walkthrough this afternoon and Denise and I are beyond excited!!
For those that didn’t know yet, Denise and I are building a house up in Blaine. We were fortunate enough to stumble into a really good situation and we’re really excited about it! We have a tentative closing date of November 26th or sooner (obviously we’re really keeping our fingers crossed for the “sooner”). They should be able to give us a firmer date in a couple weeks when it all gets framed in.
So far, we have the beginnings of a foundation complete with basement walls. They just backfilled it a few days ago.
After a series of delays for various paperwork-related reasons on the buyer’s end, we finally closed on the condo and moved out yesterday. We’ve now officially taken up residence (temporarily) with the in-laws in Cottage Grove. We expect to get some good news from the bank within the next couple days on the short sale we’re pursuing up in Blaine. So hopefully we’ll be living here a month at the most!
For some post-move pictures of the condo, click here.
