So, sorry about the interruption in programming - we hit some technical difficulties hahah :) I'm trying to stay lighthearted about it all, especially now that it's behind us, but we got thrown a curveball. We pulled up the carpet downstairs to change the flooring and noticed around the base of the door leading from the dining room to the porch that the plywood was in kinda rough shape. So Dave cut out the spots to replace them... But hiding behind that was more damaged, rotten wood - in the walls. I don't really know the words for it all but basically the wood that supports our two-story house on one side was just deteriorated to crumble. And even though we caught it within three weeks of closing on the house, there was nothing we could do. Sigh. We thought asking for extra inspections, termite warranties and a contractor's letter on the "structural soundness" of the home would be enough. Turns out every single inspection and even the structural letter said "no guarantee, no warranty". We got a lovely home warranty, but part of what-they-won't-cover is anything caused by "people, pet or pest" and it's largely termite damage. So there went a large part of our budget just to get it back to sound, standing condition. Guys, let me just tell you, I had to eat a lot of ice cream those days. And Dave and I had to pour ourselves some wine those evenings. But it is fixed now and we're ready to live "happily-ever-after" and we've resumed our fixing-up of the place!
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