Working on the house has commenced!

I finally closed on the house on Monday August 15th. The title company took their sweet time doing there part, 6 weeks to be exact so I got the house 2 hours after reporting to my new duty station. I took some photos of the home so that you will be able to see the drastic changes made.

Above are a few photos of the living room with the nasty carpet removed. the carpet was glued to the concrete slab so i had to scrap all of that residue of the concrete so that the hardwood flooring that I will be installing will be smooth.

The next I also removed the carpet in the rest of the house, dining room, all three bedrooms and all three bathrooms. I still cant believe that they had carpet in the bathrooms.

Here is a picture of the master bedroom, it also has a valted ceiling with a skylight.

here is the shower in the master bedroom

here is the toilet in the master bedroom, this toilet has a very interesting story.

The people that previously owned this home were not very handy, the porcelain cracked where the toilet is bolted down to the flange. Thus causing a leak, the toilet itself would not hold water as everytime there was water in the bowl it leaked out, this minor repair that could have been fixed in a matter of minutes has now created alot of damage. Below are a couple of pictures to show the damage that was created. i almost forgot the best part of this, to repair the leak the people that lived here before placed 2 zip lock bags under the broked porcelain, i guess that they didnt know that the old stop a leak with a zip lock bag techineque requires 3 zip lock bags lol.

here is a picture of the subflooring around the toilet that had the leak. I will be replacing that.

Here is what the leaking toilet did to the ceiling in the kitchen, had the previous owner spent the 50 bucks to replace the toilet none of this would have occured, i guess this is the just part of the reason I was ableto purchase this house so cheap, at least the cost to replace this damaged stuff will not be to high.

I was going to update everything on here one room at a time but my phone doesnt seem to like the area as my wifi hotspot is not working properly in the house, so no internet for the time being, i should get the internet hooked up next week when I return to Kansas City after spending the weekend with my family in Des Moines, IA.

There will be much more to come. keep checking back, I will let everyone know via facebook when I have made an update to the blog.