The Ghost of Home Owners Past

Time for a new post - whether I'm ready to write on or not.

Life is very busy with two houses and two sets of reno's on the go. In the middle of all the prep at the new house the ghost of Heik still haunts us in the old place: The suite bathroom turned up some concerns in our buyers house inspection - and then the little girl downstairs stuck her hand through the tiled wall in the tub! Yes, Heik, running out of aquaboard (the blue/green drywall for bathrooms), and too cheap to spend $15 (or whatever 1997 costs would have been) on another board, chose to fill in the back wall of the tub with random pieces of regular drywall!! Steve removed nearly 25 square feet of mush, tiles and mould early this week. Thankfully the damage was minimal beyond that and the blue board everywhere else was fine. We now have a tiled wall setting with grout (properly backed with aquaboard) and it should be ready when our tenants return from Disneyland on Saturday.

Unfortunately all this business takes us away from getting our NEW house ready for us to move in.
Ah yes, the new place; another endless round of renos in our future, but we're excited about it. And the difference with the new house and all the various layers of 'mistakes' is that as far as we know they are due to home owner amateur renos rather than the so-called professional work of the previous owners of our current (? it is SO confusing talking about two 'homes') house. That is the reason behind all the scorn for the renovations in this (arrgghhh!!) house - they were done by a self-proclaimed professional contractor and house builder!! Not that his business has been listed in the phone book for years. One of those fly-by-night contractors who goes belly-up and reopens as someone new, we suppose. Still, we'll miss having the ghost of Heik to blame for all the crazy reno's in the new house - and there are some doozies!! I may even start a whole new blog just to cover the reno's on the new house!

Come to think of it, we may just blame Heik afterall.