...and it continues to be real

Today is the day I go buy a house. Well, start the paperwork, anyway. Even though some weeks will elapse between now and when the last of the necessary paperwork from the previous owner's estate goes through so that the title can be transferred to me, the heirs agreed that I can get the keys straight away so that Keldor and I can start the great cleaning project.

It will be interesting to see if we can get the cleaning done and the things sorted into piles for keep, sell, donate, and trash before the title is in my name. Of course, I don't plan to actually sell anything till the transaction is complete. Once it is, you can expect a few DYI posts comming your way as we start renovating...

Day one

We arrived at the house this afternoon and at 15:24 started diing video walk throughs of each room to record "before". Then I went to work scrubbing the bathroom and Keldor started trying to find the stove under years of cooking fat.

At 21:30 I called the bathroom done enough to do an after video, and we packed up to head back to his Dad's to sleep.

That wasn't non-stop scrubbing, there were pauses for a few other things (like testing the washing machine on an old blanket found on the floor)