Author Archives: Anya

Floor heating.

Yesterday (October 11th) and today we finally got our floor heating. When I went to the house at 11 am, the workers hadn’t even arrived yet and I was worried if they would actually start that day. Chris and I stopped back again at 8 pm. Turns out they didn’t even arrive till 3 pm, but had already done the entire upstairs. They had to cut Styrofoam and put it all around the pipes.
I went there again today at 7 pm and they had the entire downstairs done and put some kind of foil on top of it. Now they just need to lay down the actual pipes for the floor heating (which they promised they will do throughout the night) and then on Friday the screed will be taken care of. Hopefully I will be there in time to see them do it, that should be interesting 🙂

Roof tiles

We spent Sunday moving the leftover roof tiles from the front yard up to the attic. Thankfully we had help from two neighbors, otherwise I am not sure we would have made it in one day. Those things are heavy!

Now the front yard is cleaned up and we have enough roof tiles stored up in the attic for many storms to come 😉

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Bunch of stuff for the workers stored in our attic.

Some of the roof tiles neatly tucked away.

Playing in the yard.

Scaffolding is gone!

It took an extremely long time, but they finally took the scaffolding down. Kind of weird, but to us the house looks completely different now. Yard got quite a bit bigger as well. Now hopefully they will continue to finish the inside so we can finally move in.

DIY dog fence

I am aware of the fact that I haven’t posted anything in a little over 3 month. This is due to the fact that we are having some trouble with the building company (simply put they just breached contract and stopped working) and the lawyers are currently fighting with each other. Don’t worry, we are in the right, it will just take a while to get stuff figured out. I will do a detailed post about it once it’s all over and I can talk about it.

For now, we are doing what we can to enjoy the half finished house and not think about the fact that we should already be living in it.

So let me tell  you about our DIY fence we built yesterday.
At one point, when the house is done and the yard is done,… our fence will look like this:
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Typical White Picket Fence if you will. However since I refuse to have it out of wood (just THINK about all the times you will have to paint it and clean it,…. over the years,…  yeah I think I’m good), ours will be made out of synthetic material. You basically hose it of, done.
Downside to that is the price. With how much yard we have we are looking at somewhere between 5 and 7k, something that will just have to wait a while.  In the meantime we thought it would be slightly annoying to work inside the the house, constantly worrying about the kids running on the street or the dog running over to the neighbors (2 of which have dogs as well). So we thought it would be nice to at least fence the back yard off. (Later, with the permanent fence, the entire land will be fenced off all around the house, but for now this will do). So we bought some really cheep but new fence (under $40) on ebay and just used all the scrap wood laying around for poles. I will tell you right now, the fence is not a beauty, however it does the job and keeps the kids and the dog where they should be.
The weather is currently pretty awesome and today, for the first time we could actually let Loki run around without a leash. He was loving it and we spent all day at the yard. Totally worth the $40 total (fence and cable ties to attach it). Looking forward to many more weekends spend there, even once we are moving in. Will be a while till the yard is done and the real fence gets here, but at least now, we can all relax together.

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Soon he’ll roam free 😉

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I actually fear they’ll be upset once we start putting furniture in 😉

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That’s all for now. Keep your fingers crossed for us, I really just want to move in at this point.

Reinforcement with ETICS

Today the reinforcement with ETICS got done. It’s very impressive how different the house looks now. It won’t stay like this (because it will be painted blue),  but it sure looks better than the dalmatian look it was sporting before.
Lavinia wanted to go to the construction site early today, right after Lillian got done with her homework. However, I had to finish some school work with Lillian after she was done and by the time we were ready to go it was almost time for her to go to her Taekwondo class, so I figured 5pm was good enough. Sadly, by the time we got there, they were already done. I should have listened to Lavinia. We missed the whole thing, but I guess I can’t always be around whenever they do something new. According to google it must have looked something like this:

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Either way, here are some pictures of the house 🙂


Dry wall workers

On April 12th and 13th the dry wall workers were here, closing all the holes and dents in the walls. The inside of the house now looks crazy dotted. While we were checking out their work, the kids played in the yard. They made a “snail house” out of stuff they found around the construction site and collected some snails (one for each kid). It was pretty cute 😉
Sadly they all had to cry, because they couldn’t take the snails home 🙁 They now want to go to the construction site daily, not because of the house, but because they want to check up on their snails 😉
We also saw, that they had our outside paint delivered. I am so very excited to see the house get it’s final color and for the scaffolding to go away!