One Year In Our New Home

On the 18^th, Kenyon and I celebrated the one year anniversary of building our new home.

 

She is still holding up well.  We had our inspector back out at the house in July with only a few minor issues.  The biggest one is the side patio yard near the front of the fence is sinking.  They think mostly it is due to being on the line dug under for drainage and will send somebody out to level it out.  Between that sinking area and the vole damage, it looks pretty bad.  But, Kenyon and I don’t even like grass/yard/landscape so eventually we do plan to get some quotes for getting rid of the grass on the patio side in the fenced area.  If we did that, I might even go back to mowing!

Once we got our fence, mowing was a bit more difficult because you had to now edge/trim around the fence and also wasn’t able to just walk back and forth the length of the yard with the fence now in the way.  I’ve been hiring out a service bi-weekly and have liked how it is turning out.  If we had even less grass, I would probably force myself to mow it rather than pay.  I’ll be happy come October when I can save that money I’ve been spending on lawn care.

We had a few cracks with the house settling but they seem to have re-sealed on their own.  We also have some nails working their way out of the walls/ceiling.  The inspector said that was due to a nail that went in wrong and was never taken out.  We have some gashes in our pocket doors due to screws behind the door in the wall area.  It was decided to leave the doors as is because replacing them would take more work than we want to put up with.  When it comes time to move, we will have to address it then with our realtor.

Overall, still very happy with our new house.  We still love our location and our neighbors.  Our ‘hood has not grown into the second phase yet but we do have many more alley load houses than when we moved in.  The traditional homes are also finished.  We learned we are getting some apartment complexes around us and will soon have an influx of extra people and cars.  We aren’t too pleased about that but there isn’t much we can do.  It is just a huge bummer.