
TANK
Shared on Tue, 10/28/2008 - 11:06We closed the house on Friday and Saturday at 9am i had a 26 foot UHaul in front of my rental house. Some people thought that was nuts but I figured we could manage.
My wife hired a couple thugs from work to help us move. They brought the company truck which is a flat bed with a lift gate, they use it for hauling demo debris to the dump and pickups of construction supplies. We half filled it with dump stuff from the old house. Then filled the rest of it with shelving units, my work bench, exercise equipment.
The 26' UHaul seemed like it took forever to load. Back up a bit, they gave it to us with 1/4 of a tank of gas! I decided to do a 1 way since it's 50 miles from one house to another and I didn't want to deal with bringing it back when they charge 1.09 per mile plus gas. Even though it's cheaper per day rate, it's not at all cheaper when you factor in milage and gas. The one way cost more initially but it included 43 miles and it was only 40 cents a mile over, which in the end only cost me 7 bucks more than what i paid up front. So doing the one way was way cheaper and more convenient, except it only had 1/4 of a tank of gas so i and to find a gas station to pull the beast into that it would fit. As luck would have it, the first corner gas station had the outside pumps empty so we filled that truck up there and my pickup truck at the same time. I busted out the calculator to figure out how much gas to put in. IF you bring it back lower, it's 35 bucks plus 5 dollars per gallon but if you over fill it, you get no credit. So i calculated 6 miles to the gallon and 50 miles travelled and put in 10.5 gallons of gas. In the end it worked out perfect.
Anyway we loaded that truck up with everything bulky , threw some stuff in the back of my pickup too and we had a 4 vehicle caravan heading to the new house. Unloading was really easy because it pretty much all went into the garage. Funny thing is, some stuff had to go out back because there wasn't enough room in the garage after unloading haha.
We have the popcorn being scraped off the ceiling and it being textured. That was done as of Sunday night. Now they're painting, starting with what will be my theater room but for now it has tile floor so it just needs to be painted and we can mvoe the rest of the stuff from the old house and store it here in my theater room. OF course enough room will be left for me to setup the TV and xbox for Gears 2 launch, i've made that very clear to the wife :) Once all the rooms have been painted, then the flooring guy will come in and do the hardwood floors in the living/dining and upstaris bedrooms. WE're leaving the tile for now, it looks ok but it's a bit dated. There's nothingg wrong with it though, it's all in good shape.
So at the moment in the garage i have one seat on the couch, a plastic snap together shelf as a table, a cooler as an endtable and a couple singe mattresses stacked for a bed. That's where we're living in the new house until the renos are done, then we'll need to actually move into it and roll the furniature out.
So far the only thing i know that got damaged was the 3 seater couch that just won't go through the door, it was a mind bending challenge to get it in and also out. I don't want it anyway , it's old and beat up but for now we need a piece of furniature to sit on so we moved it. But i noticed the fabric got munched on the shoulder of one of the sides. Guess it's trash now for sure haha. THankfully the doors in the back of the house are extra big, we have fench doors and a sliding door so it'll be no problem getting it into the house, it just has to be walked out the front of the garage, through the gate, down the side of the house (which is narrow) then in through the back. The challenge will be getting it into the back.
The a/c unit got stolen that came with the house but the sellers paid fo ra new one. The new one is a freak'in monster. And although i'm sure i'll enjoy it in the summer, right now it's in the freak'in way :lol:
I found out the pool has a toilet valve too, i was pulling up the caps along hte stone patio area and was like hey that's a toilet valve. I guess when the water level gets too low, it turns on to top off the pool. COol idea. One of the three pumps work. The pump for the vacuum and the pump for the waterfalls don't. There's a pipe broken off that runs the waterfall and the back piece of the pump that runs the vacuum is busted off too. So i guess i'll need to get the pool guy out to first explain WTF all these pumps and things do and find otu how much it'll cost to fix. Although i found a super energy efficient pump so i may replace both pumps completely and use the one working one for the waterfall which you only turn on when you swim.
Lots of work to do in both houses. I'm back at the old house now to do a expectations walkthrough with the landlord and pack/sort/clean. I hvae to run by gamestop too and cash out all my pre-orde rmoney so i can move it to the new gamestop and pre-order my L4D and maybe Gears2 if they're doing a midngiht thing so i can get the gold hammerburst code.
Anyway, times'a'wast'in as i sit here and type this so back to work....
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