So we will be moving my mom and dad’s stuff in next week and then my dad and Clint will be staying out at the Lake House and get started on it while my mom and I stay at my house and finish packing my stuff. This week mom and dad will be staying w/Mister and I while there stuff sits in a POD so we can spend all week packing my stuff. Once we get the house, dad and Mister will stay out there we start to unpack my mom and dad’s stuff. Our stuff is being moved by movers on 09/12 – 09/13. Then we will officially be out of suburban hell and into country, Lake House, living! Yay!
It will be a ton of work though the first few weeks though before we get our stuff moved in. My mom and dad’s part is no so bad. Theirs is not “Pretty,” but it is not offensive and it is move in ready. Our part on the other had is atrocious! We will have to rip out all of the flooring. That means approx 5000 sq ft of carpet and vinyl! The house belonged to a catman so it smells like cats and it all has to go. Every last inch has to be ripped up and tossed out. Then we have to inspect the sub floor to see how much damage has been done by the cats. What can be salvaged will be and then the rest will have to be replaced. Then it will all get soaked w/some sort of enzyme thing like nature’s made or something. I will have to post what we use later. Then we will paint it w/Kiltz and poly it. This must be done on like the the first few days and leave the windows open so it can air the place out. This is the most important project of the whole endeavor because the floors must be done before we can move stuff in. We are not going put our flooring in yet. A) We have not picked all of it yet, so therefore it is not ordered and B) We have not decided who is going to lay it. Mister is thinking he and his brother are going to do all of the hard wood and there is going to be a ton of hard wood and our part and in my mom’s part. Then we need to have a pro do the tile b/c it will be granite and marble and ceramic tile and there will be a ton of tile work in the master bath. And the carpet, forget it, Mister hates carpet! C) We are doing one room at a time to so we want to get the paint and the walls done before we do the floors. We can move furniture around and live on “rustic” flooring for a while if it means it will be done right! But at the very least the floors have to be sanitized and sealed!!! Cat Be Gone!!! There can be no trace of cat there b/c we have two kitties and they cannot know that there were naughty kitties living there before we moved in!
