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Tiles are started!

While the painter is still painting and turning our house more and more into something we can actually live in, the tile guy started today as well.

Thought I’d brighten your day with some pictures. Enjoy!

A whole new wooooorld…

Our painter started his thing last Monday (January 16h) and so far it looks like a whole new world. Keep in mind, this is only the primer after he was sanding the walls. The actual white paint is not even on the walls yet. 🙂 Our tile guy will start tomorrow (January 23rd) put already applied penetrating primer to the floors and walls downstairs as well.

Today we spend the day figuring out how we want our tiles put on the floors and walls. I am pretty excited to see what changes we will see next week.

Enjoy the pics!

Paint and tiles

Our painter started his work today, our tile guy brought his work stuff and we carried our bathtubs upstairs (with a little help from our friends) so they wouldn’t hurt they stairway once it’s painted. Tiles and hardwood floors should be delivered soon as well.

Enjoy the pics!

Mailbox is here

Our mailbox is here! Chris put it together and now all we have to do is get some cement, dig a hole and put it up 🙂
Since I hate decisions and couldn’t decide on just one design, we now have a spring/summer mailbox and a fall/winter mailbox 🙂 Oh well. Didn’t cost nearly as much as this house 🙂 🙂 🙂

We also found out that our building company was smart enough to put one of our room thermostats (which has a build in sensor to check the temperature) in the wrong room so we had to drill a hole all the way through our wall.

Chris also drilled some holes for spots in the kitchen and the stairway while the kids and I were building a snowman, had a snowball fight and went sledding on our villages really big sledding hill. It was a lot of fun! Enjoy the pics. Goodnight everyone 😀

Couch, fridge and winter time

Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
This will – hopefully! – at last be the year we are moving into our new house!
Sadly not much could be done during the Holidays as everyone was off of work, but at least January 4th we got our couch (Wohnlandschaft Anne – Hoeffner, that we sadly bought 2 years ago when it was still a couple of hundred bucks more) delivered as well as our side-by-side (LG GSJ961NEBZ with door-in-door, pure n fresh, water, crushed ice and ice cubes,… – from Amazon) on January 5th.

The couch is still wrapped from delivery, as well as the fridge, but here are some pictures of what they look like:

Our painter will start on Monday and soon after that our tile guy will put down the tile floors and walls. At the same time we will start putting down our hard wood floors so hopefully we will see some changes soon.

We also had the first snow this winter and the kids had a blast with it. Enjoy the pics!

Phone/Internet/Electricity/Rain water/Handover

Gussek/ProHaus is FINALLY out! We got our keys yesterday, the lock got changed and they can’t get back in.  I was going to let you know in detail what all is wrong with that company, but it’s 1am and I am tired and exhausted from all the stuff going on. Let me just say: Don’t built with Gussek if you can avoid it in any way. Don’t get me wrong, the house is great, but they messed so much stuff up that cost us so much time, its’ not even funny. Example: They had to put a heating system, water softener and air conditioning in. They did put it in, but all 3 of them so wrong that our heating didn’t work, air condition had to be rebuilt and the water softener flooded our floor in the laundry room. Again: I can NOT recommend that company. Pick a different one.  It took 8 months, 3 weeks and 1 day for us to get our keys after they put up the house. 23 months, 2 weeks and 4 days since we signed the contract. Funny part about that is that they claim to have you moving in 3 months after they put up the house. We just now got the keys so we can have our painter and tile guy do their job while we lay down the hardwood floors. This will take maybe up to March (because the floors are still not dry – Gussek was incapable to turn our heater on for forever and a day even though several companies told them for WEEKS how to do it) so by that point we will probably have it the 1 year mark since the house got put up. This is a 9 months delay. People can have a baby in 9 month :p
Anyway, to cut a long story short we are more then glad to be done dealing with them and happy that we can finally start working on our stuff to get ready to move in.
Since my last post we got phone, internet, electricity, rain waiter, and now the keys to our house (check the timeline if you are into details). We have light switches and outlets and a working heater. It’s also kind of nice to have actual working lights so that at night we don’t have to use flashlights anymore. What a luxury! 😉

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





















 

Doors, bathtubs, shower,…

Today we got our huge delivery of doors, bathtubs, toilets, shower, …. and all the stuff that’s needed to install it. I was told that the delivery would get there some time between noon and 2 pm and that the driver would call me 1 hour before he arrives at the construction site. At 1 pm I called to ask what was going on and was told the driver had some trouble at another customer’s house and was going to be a bit late, but would still call me an hour before he got there. A couple of minutes before 3 pm he called saying he was at our house….. so much for the one hour warning I guess. So I got the kids in the car and left. HUGE amounts of stuff was right in front of our door. ProHaus had failed to mention (they do claim it’s in our contract, but it’s really not, I checked), that the driver was only dropping off the stuff and wouldn’t help me carrying it inside. Thanks to the help of one of our great new neighbors about 1.5 – 2 hours later we actually did have everything in our house. I couldn’t have done it alone and Chris couldn’t take a day off at his new job either. So I am extremely thankful for having such helpful neighbors. I would have been really lost today without some help.
Here’s all the stuff inside the house: