The house is looking wonderful and we're pretty excited. The OLD house is still on the market but that is not a worry. No bridge loan is needed and maybe it will sell faster empty. I'll just have to keep mowing the yard and we will just have to keep the conditions inside the house up for a little longer then anticipated.
Anyway - the New house will have 360 sq feet of deck put in sometime the week of the 14th. We were thinking of composite (also called plastic) but after a lot of research we're going with wood.
Why? A couple of schools of thought. Composite is great because it never needs to be stained. However, it DOES need to be cleaned every couple years. Also a five year old composite deck will look like a five year old composite deck. A wood deck will look brand new every couple years.
Composite decks get much hotter in the summer and are more prone to warping as they get soft in the heat. Composites will sit in a landfill for a thousand years so wood is better for the environment. Wood is cheaper and we feel, bang for the buck, wood is the winner.
Inside the house, carpeting still needs to be going in and counter tops are due up! The counters are in and look great! The fireplace is taking shape and even though we were told to get six inch tile three inch tile is being install with we feel is better.
Our builder has done a 100% perfect job so far and we could not be happier with the build.
The garage doors must be one of the last and that will be nice as they are not the standard doors (almost but they have windows which adds something).
What we like is that while it is a modest ONE QUARTER OF A MILLION DOLLAR home it has some pop to it. Actually that does sound like a lot but our current home is not that much less.
We're dumping DISH and going with DIRECT TV. No Charter because their digital is not really digital but compressed analog and there is a big difference between the two. DISH is just a messed up company and since Mr. Evil Rupert Murdock no longer owns DIRECT, we can now buy into the service.
We're also dumping ATT because they do not offer DSL and we're going to use Charter for their broadband.
Hmmmm - what else - can’t think of anything at the moment.
Cheers
3 comments:
AT&T doesn't offer DSL?
Um, I have AT&T DSL... do you mean they don't offer it in the sticks?
correct - not in the sticks!
G read this article on compression. Maybe you'll change ur mind about charter.
http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6400524.html
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