So, this is disgusting. The first time I walked into the house I about turned around because of the smell of pet urine. NASTY. And, that was the time I was sick in early pregnancy, so it was a double wammy. Anyway, this is the section of carpet that was still wet when Brandon pulled it up. He did go out and chuck at this point. The subfloor was even wet. I can't even tell you how gross it was. Just looking at it is turning my stomach.
And, here I am patching holes. Millions of holes. Brandon thought I was nuts because I felt so bad for this house! It was sooooo beat up. I don't know how this much damage could have been done in such a short life. In fact today I spackled and painted over the names that were scratched into the bedroom doors. Now all the doors are repaired except for our bedroom door which has a big hole in it. We obviously have to get a new one. Oh, here's something to give you an idea of the kind of people that lived here before. One of the kids' bedroom doors has the doorknob on reversed so the lock is on the outside. Hmmm.
This is one of the kids' rooms. It is actually now Sterling's room. Brandon was priming and stopped to take a pic as evidence of the amount of filth there was on everything. It is hard to see here but if you look close you can sort of see the discoloration.
And another nasty one. We don't know how long the house sat empty, but this was the color of the water for days. We ran it and ran it and ran it. Finally my dad hooked a hose to the hot water heater and emptied it. That made a big difference.
Well, these are a FEW of the things we did to get ready to move in. It took a week of at least four people working 8 hours every day to get it livable. We are still missing some baseboards and we are still working on replacing floors, but boy what a difference!
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