A brief visit...and focusing!

This past Saturday I went and took a look at the house with Mary Kay.  I got the times wrong for our meeting, so instead of being 10 minutes early, I was 20 minutes late!  I did a quick walk-around and took the pictures (that I probably should have taken in February.) of the utility room, electric panel, and wood stove.

As you remember from my last post, I scheduled a new washer and dryer to be delivered after I move in, looking in the utility room, it appears that there may not be room for both of them side-by-side.  (27" width each, 54" total.) You make the call:

A few things that make me NOT worry about this:

1. The water heater is old, its positioned oddly in the room.
2. There is no utility sink in the room at all, something I want for washing pets/cleaning paint brushes, etc.
3. If I need, I can stack them, it will fit. (not a preferred solution)

So, I'm am debating doing some plumbing on the Sunday I move in, move (or buy a new one) the water heater, and measure out a space for that utility sink.  The sink of course would require hot/cold and drain connection.

By the way, plans, ideas, as I said in the beginning, the blog will be covering all of my ideas, even those that don't come to fruition.  To me its important to have a list of ideas for the home I'm moving into, so that as I walk around stores I can let things 'speak to me' about how they may apply to those plans.

One of the reasons I went to the house was also to get an idea of what models the kitchen appliances were, as well as the wood stove.

You can't see the side, but it says 'Resolute'.  The internet says Vermont Castings Resolute, came out in the 80's, a few entries on Ebay for ~$1200.  It definitely requires upkeep, but back at the house inspection my dad took a look and said the seals looked good.  I'm going to have to scrub-brush this stove, and repaint it.  Luckily, step-dad has some unused high-temp black spraypaint he never used for their wood stove.  When I have this stove out, I'll definitely have to clean the back fireplace stone.  Looks bad, and I'd want to have it clean if I ever used the fireplace as a fireplace again.  I do want to use the woodstove once this season.  Use up some of the old wood outside and get a feel for it. 

As I said with the plans, I've started a notebook with all the things I see needing to be done, wanting to be done in a nice list.  I'm also realizing that I'm going to geek out with things like the electric panel, piping and the 'systems' of the house.  I want to have everything labeled and a notebook w/schematics of each system.  (Yes, my Navy training makes this a 'have to have' comfort item.  Plus, in my opinion, its a smart thing to have.)

Oh, and Mary Kay let me know that the pest control treatment that was needed was accomplished and we saw that a new threshold had been installed downstairs.  So, pretty much everything has been done on the sellers part, and now I need to see if anyone is waiting on ME!