Okay so the first day Matt and I took occupancy of our new house we left the windows open and it poured all over our living room floor and in our basement. We knew that there were some water problems with the house given it has a sump pump but we didn't realize the water problems also included gutters not working properly. The rain water the first time was not so bad and so the next sunny day Matt and his brother reconnected some of the gutterst that were taken down for whatever reason and we thought, okay problem solved. Apparently there were also a lot of leaves in the front gutters and Matt and his brother could not get to them because the bushes are right up against the hosue and they coudln't squeeze the ladder in there. I know this because a week later it rained like crazy and it got so backed up that the rain started pooling in the living room window and poured all over my floors. I was a mess. The kids were screaming and I was soaked. When it calmed down a bit I grabbed a shorter ladder, smashed it in between the bushes and the house and stood almost on the top of the ladder with a huge pole to get the leaves out because I was NOT going to clean all that water up again. It seems to have solved some of the problem but it is looking like we might need to replace gutters or at the very least put new seams on some of them. IF only the rain would stop. But that is not the only water problem I have had to deal with.

 

A few days before the gutter inicident I had a leak in our brand new hot water on demand tank. It was leaking like crazy all over the basement floor. A huge amount of water was everywhere...so much that we had to push buckets of it into the sump pump. Matt tried to turn of the main water but that still didn't seem to stop it. At this point we called the sellers of the hosue because we legally can't do anything until we close and we can't close until the septic is all done but that is another story alltogether. So anywyas after mopping up the water twice and still having a steady stream, I finally got the idea to get the big crazy rain water bucket and collect the water in that. I had to empty it twice and it holds like 30 gallons of water. That was fun. Fortunately the sellers are cool and got right on it and had a plumber come and fix it. So that problem is now solved.

 

And now the water is messing up our closing date. We hope it won't but we are biting our nails. My yard is piles of dirt and rock with huge holes right now as the septic workesr try to finish up the septic in time for our closing date this Friday. We just want to be done. It stopped raining this morning long enough for the health inspector to give the job a "go ahead" and now it is raining on and off. I don't know what it is about us and the places we move to but it seems like we just bring the rain. So please come out Sun. Please go away rain! Cross your fingers for us because we really need this whole thing to be over.

 

But anyways despite everything we love the house and we love the neighborhood. Several neighbors have come by and one even brought bananna bread. There are lots of small kids in the neighborhood and we even have a teenage girl next door who loves to babysit. So through it all, we are still happy we live here. Okay cross your fingers. Got to go check on the work now.