Ok, one year down and my bank account is feeling the consequences of the previous owners lack of maintenance.
Item 1: The house is 8 years old and upon inspection before we moved in it was noted that there was “heavy caulking” around the base of the master shower. Well I now know why. For the past 2 months the wife and I have been taking showers in the guest bathroom as there is substantial water damage on the floor boards that was the result from the bad caulking. Ya see, the caulking was so thick because it was keeping the gap that occurs between the “pan” and the “walls” when someone enters the shower. Yes, the pan seperates from the shower walls and creates a hairline crack that allows water to seep through and do GOD KNOWS WHAT! to the underside and surrounding of the stall. Now the insurance company has given me what seems to be a feeble amount of compensation when compared to my gargantuan(sp?) prepay. I also called my home owners warranty company to find that my warranty expired 20 days ago….CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT SHIT!! So as I filed the damage with my insurance company in early february, they are going to try and get something done. Of course this could have all been avoided if the dumbass who lived in the house before me and applied ALLLLLL that caulk had done this when it first started.
Item 2: the heater went out last week. I tried to fix it myself but could not come up with a permanent fix. The AC guy came out to my house and found that I had a bad circuit board and that for some reason my fan was on its highest setting. It should always be on lowest to ensure safe performance and endurance of parts. He decided to look into the system and found that a large piece of insulation was blocking the intake to the main blower, which would be the reason that the fan was boosted, to compensate the loss in air flow. He was not sure if that had anything to do with the circuit board going out, but once again it was something that the previou owner could have corrected when he was here.
In the end I am looking at paying about 2 to 3 thousand dollars all within my first year to repair what the dumbass who, to this day has yet to forward his and his wifes mail, had the chance to correct but failed to. Man, I hope that whoever lives in this house after me knows what I went through to get the place running again! I can’t wait to see what poops up next!
Oh yeah, top all that monetary crap off with the fact that my car is about to get it’s first overhaul since I bought it and I am looking at a serious dent!
Ugh, house repairs are a bitch. At least your house is only 8 years old. Try a 50+ year old house with peeling paint everywhere and no vent in the bathroom, so you have to open the window when you take a shower (even in the winter) and the moisture STILL builds up everywhere and peels more paint. Oh, and outside window sills are rotting but new windows cost an absolute fortune so that’s not an option, and the basement gets up to 2 inches of water when it rains. AHHHHHHHHH
Oh yeah, and the car thing sucks too. Sorry!
I hope whatever poops up next isn’t actually poop!
New car or same truck?
Good luck with the repairs.
same old GMC truck, very reliable so far though!
Fuzzy Bunny needs some serious help. Installaion of a bathroom fan with backdraft damper and roof or wall cap is beyond necessary. The fan won’t cost more than 50 bucks at your local Grainger store or even Home Depot. You can get all type including fan/light combos, etc. You wiring should already be there for an over head light, if not then for other lights, regardless your circuit should be okay for the minimal load. The kicker is going to be a wall or roof penetration. Masonry will be tough but any kind of hard board or siding should be easy to pop through. Opening the windows in the winter may actually be hurting your cause. Depending on house pressurization, some steam may be sneaking out but you may very well be letting more cold air in. It’s drier but also has a low low dew point and will continue to create the condensate problem causing the paint peel. Also be careful of hte pain on the walls. Old typically equals oil based paint. If someone slapped latex over it, it’s coming off anyway. Get an oil based primer and hit the walls then paint with wahtever you choose on the next go around. Otherwise, stick with an oil based paint.
I’ll see ya on the next “This Old House.”
Water Heater-whoops, did I say that-oh, no, it may have heard.
Good luck making repairs. Let me know if you need a hand. I gotta learn sometime.
hm, good point Wha. I would never have thought that opening the window could actually be worse than not. As far as installing a fan and cutting through the roof…it’s something we don’t really want to tackle since we’re most likely not going to be living there more than 4 more months, so it’s all money down the drain. Maybe a fan in conjunction with the open window would help blow the steam out as a temporary solution?
Wha is a serious HVAC nerd! He does that for a living. Go design the beer warehouse for Reister!
Did you think I was learning this shit for any other reason. If you are going to do something be good at it. If i’s passoimg out in awkward places, pressurizing a building to pull the clothes off unsuspecting women, or prepping for the ultimate home design (wine cellar and home brewery at optimum conditions, I leave Jack to the men in Lynchburg) then damn it, do it well.
Spoken like a true bloody nipple nubs man.