We’re getting close to finishing up everything in the new house.  I made the decision that we’re “moving” into the new house on November 15th.  All the big items will be finished by then except maybe the kitchen floor.  However, since we’re doing the kitchen floor ourselves I’m not counting that as a big project because no outside contractors are involved.

The latest big item to get finished was our new furnace and AC.  Both of those went in on Friday and we got a new thermostat to go along with it.  They’re both high efficiency units which means a giant rebate from our local power company.  Unfortunately, because of the temperature on the day of the install, they could not do the efficiency testing for the AC so we have to wait until the spring before the HVAC company can do the testing and establish the efficiency.

New Furnace

New Thermostat

It sounds like this week my wife and her father will start on the kitchen floor.  I’ll try to help as much as I can after work, but her father will be gone by that point so not sure how much help I can give.  We also have to paint a ton of cord around this week to put in our new house.  This week should also see the delivery of our new kitchen island as well as the rubber floor matting we’re going to put in the back two rooms that will be used as the “dog” rooms.  The crates will be back there along with ribbons, trophies, and other knick knacks from our dogs.  And lastly we should be getting our new refrigerator delivered finally.  It’s been sitting in the Menards warehouse for about 3 weeks now.  Never called to get it delivered as the kitchen floor was still just subflooring.

We’re in the home stretch here at the new house!  Today our living room and master bedroom floors were finished.  They are absolutely gorgeous even with the minor patching they had to do.  Can’t even tell where the patching was done if you weren’t previously aware.  We had the same guy do the floors in this house who did the floors in our current house.  He had previously done a great job so we were very comfortable with how it would turn out.

Finished Living Room Floor

Finished Bedroom Floor

Electrical work will be finished up tomorrow.  It was so nice walking into the house yesterday and being able to turn on the kitchen light from the back door without having to walk across the kitchen to get to the switch!

On Friday our new furnace and air conditioner are scheduled to be installed.  Not sure when the kitchen floor will go in.  I think we might get a start on it this weekend.

Lastly, not technically house related, but part of our new home.  Our agility contact equipment was delivered last weekend.  Tonight I had just enough daylight to get the dog walk out to the field and put it together.  Luna and Jane then broke it in while Onyx was out doing the important work of patrolling for squirrels. 🙂  Maybe tomorrow will see enough light to get the teeter or a-frame out there.

New Dog Walk