The Super Official Homeowners Thread

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dude that's horrible. i bet your heating bill will drop nicely now that you aren't blowing half of it out a huge gash in your floor! i would definitely dress that PM down for that excuse for a job worth signing off on.

i don't blame you for not waiting around. i dealt with mice in our last rental home and nothing again will ever set me on a freakin vindictive jihad like the war i waged against those little bastards. i hated every day of it and i probably have mouse PTSD now

i'm in the same boat with the QC stuff though. our McHouse probably went up in a week. it looks nice, love the area but Lord help us if a serious storm ever comes through here because our house will just explode into dust. unfortunately that's how everything is built in this area unless we wanted to pay 1/2M or more.

Yeah man, the hole is probably why we didn't smell the gas leak too...our house overall is so tight that it probably created a negative pressure area that just sucked it down and right out of the house

I filled up the hole with steel wool and instant concrete this morning, but I'm still going to have the builder come out and pull the siding & sheathing off to see if there is any damage to the sill plate. If so it could also be an engineering / structural concern (albeit a tiny one).

On a lighter note, dudebros are hauling away our old Craigslist washer / dryer and delivering some new Maytag hotness today. Trees go in tomorrow! Here's the before from my man cave / office window:



You can see a faint final stake without a flag on the far right representing the additional tree we bought, which is where we pulled the flag from that went in on the end of the "hook" shape on the far left. There is 20ft from the far right stake to the lot line, which should be perfect because the natural forest that will remain should cover the rest. You can see why we were keen to get some privacy up; we back to the new townhome section and they will be framing that next building directly ahead probably this week. To the right a ways is our next neighbor and then forward and to the right is all protected state land / hiking trail area (Carolina Thread Trail). You can also see the lights from the baseball / soccer fields way back there too.