Step 3: In progress

Another part of this whole selling house/buying house/moving thing is "inside appeal" and making sure there is nothing, or at least not very much, for the buyer to negotiate over in the repairs and "looks raggedy" department. This is Step 3 in the process, and includes the power-washing of the outside stuff.

Last week I had the hot water heater thay had 1 yr left in it when I bough the house 5 1/2 yrs ago, and was now 1/2 full of rust, replaced. Today was the majority of the rest of the repairs. At 8 AM, a little handyman army began to arrive. By 2 PM they were 4 in total. Here's their convoy in front of the house:


And one of their many piles of stuff:

And another, to fix the destruction Satchel wrought when he locked himself in the small bathroom about a year ago.


They did a great job. They were here until 7:30 PM. It was pretty much chaos the whole day. Seriously, my house looked like a construction site. I mentioned all this to a fried on the phone, which yielded "Well, with four of them there you should manage to get at least some action, you know how good those construction site sets are". Well, alas no, I was all wrapped up in managing the choas, checking their work, keeping an eye on my work stuff though I was off today, counting cats to make sure none got ouside, and amusing the dogs. Here's a picture of Bucky showing the caulk he got on his head when I was not looking: