What do you think of this house?
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I see the charm of the little one, but she can make the one she bought awesome, and so much more room! That one has the same pickled oak cabinetry in the kitchen we had when we moved into our Washington state house, we completely redid it. I love that the house she bought has tall ceilings, and all the space in the basement is awesome. And that yard! And baseball fields behind, so much better for kids.
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Just finished up with the house inspector. As I predicted, it’s in great shape. There is some very minor settling at the front corner of the garage and one of fine old pine trees is too close to the house.
Other than that there isn’t a damned thing wrong with it.
In it gets better. There is a gas line already run to the stove so it doesn’t have to be electric, the windows are all Anderson dual pane and appear to be quite new, the attic insulation is R-38 and it looks like the day it was was installed. The washer and dryer are Whirlpool direct drive units - probably the best laundry equipment Whirlpool ever built and they’re simple to fix. They’re old but should get the job done. The sump pump is six months old and includes a matching battery backup pump.
Yahoo!
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Just finished up with the house inspector. As I predicted, it’s in great shape. There is some very minor settling at the front corner of the garage and one of fine old pine trees is too close to the house.
Other than that there isn’t a damned thing wrong with it.
In it gets better. There is a gas line already run to the stove so it doesn’t have to be electric, the windows are all Anderson dual pane and appear to be quite new, the attic insulation is R-38 and it looks like the day it was was installed. The washer and dryer are Whirlpool direct drive units - probably the best laundry equipment Whirlpool ever built and they’re simple to fix. They’re old but should get the job done. The sump pump is six months old and includes a matching battery backup pump.
Yahoo!
Yay and congratulations!!!
@Steve-Miller said in What do you think of this house?:
the windows are all Anderson dual pane and appear to be quite new,
There is a date (MM-YY) stamped in the lower right hand corner of the glass, as you look at it from the inside out. Gives you an idea of the age of the windows. We replaced the original 1960 vintage Andersens in this house with new Andersens in the late 80s. And we had Andersens installed when we built the vacation home in the early 90s. They're still going strong.
The only problem we had was this negative pressure problem, in both houses.
https://www.houzz.com/discussions/2629481/andersen-glass-failure-due-to-negative-pressure
We discovered the problem because we had the oval condensation problem on the outside of the glass. We could also see a concave bow in the window glass when looking at the outside. Trying to squeegee the window dry was a hoot. Andersen repaired all the windows at no charge; the glass had a 20 year warranty.
edit: We've also had two sash balances fail on the double hung windows in the kitchen. One crapped out maybe four years ago, and another did last year. Our handyman replaced both balances on the bad window. If the sash is already out you may as well replace both sides.
I ordered a pair to replace the ones in the second window but haven't gotten around to installing them.
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Great info.
Thanks!
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Houses closed today. I have contractors lined up for tomorrow to start the renovation. Previous owners came back and cleaned up the leaves/grass. It looks a lot better than I expected - Yahoo! I’ll get a picture when the rain lets up.
Meanwhile, the fun part! Picking paint colors, flooring, wallpaper, curtains. I like where she is going with it.
