The calendar's filling up fast...
Mar. 8th, 2019 02:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
willowmegClosing is firmly scheduled for next Friday afternoon!!!
I'm gonna own a HOUSE! woo!
And thus begins the most stressful month of my husband's life...his run-down of his to-do list, broken down by days, ran through three pages of legal pad as of last night, and will be approximately two and a half weeks of jam-packed 8-hour workdays. We're estimating three weeks, to allow some wiggle room in case of hangups...and then we have to figure out the move itself.
I'm planning to take at least two weekdays off work to do the move, but April is a mess of obstacles... Greg's planned trip to Chicago the weekend of the 12th, to see Amanda Palmer with his friend (I'll be staying home), should be approximately a week after the vital work is complete. It would be awful trying to move on the day after Greg gets home, since he'll be exhausted, so the early part of the following week is out. Then I'm blocked out of leaving the office for the latter part of that week, since my counterpart has scheduled vacation. Then there's Easter weekend, which of course would be a terrible time to schedule movers...and we leave for FL and my brother's wedding on April 29. That narrows down our potential move dates to sometime between 4/6-4/10, or between 4/22-26. That's it. We have to be out of the apartment by the end of April - the more time we have to settle in between the move and the FL trip, the better (especially in terms of my absence from the office) - that's a point in favor of moving before the 12th; I could spend the weekend alone unpacking, rather than packing. But pressing for the house to be completely ready by the 6th or the 8th would put a lot of stress on Greg, as would knowing he was leaving the empty apartment un-cleaned and un-returned until after his trip. (Yes, I can work on cleaning the old place, too. But of the two of us, he's definitely the one with the Mad Skillz at dirty domestic work. I'm not ashamed to admit it, I have a House Husband and I'm grateful every day.) So... do we just schedule the move for the day after Easter, a week before our big vacation, and save the bulk of the settling-in for after we return?
I've managed to finagle free or cheap assistance out of a few of the best contractors I work with, here, at least. It's a perk of the job - I have a 15-year relationship with an architect who will do up free blueprints for us and ensure we know where all the structural walls are, a massively experienced electrician who'll give us a great rate and highly personalized service, and a paving contractor who's promised to personally ensure we get the best deal possible on our needed driveway repair. And my company's Roofing Superintendent has promised to have his guys get up on the roof to do the minor caulking and painting Greg would have had to rent a ladder to do himself...we'll buy the materials, but they won't charge us for the work. The only contractor I don't already have an in for, really, is the plumber - and we have a ton of plumbing work to do over the next few weeks. So I'm using a service provided us by the home inspector, to match us with compatible contractors - not sure yet that I trust it, but they're prompt, I'll give them that. Within 3 minutes of my project request, 2 plumbers had contacted me to discuss the work...
In other news, OMG this unicorn hoodie project looks AMAZING. Photos to come by next Monday at latest; my friend will come try it on tomorrow, and I'll take a ton of show-off shots with him modeling it. And he and I will be taking a short road trip tomorrow, too - a guy out in Newark is selling a fantastic commercial wine rack that I desperately want for my basement. M's car is big enough to load the thing, so I'll take his assistance and company as fair payment for the week of intensive sewing work. :)
I'm gonna own a HOUSE! woo!
And thus begins the most stressful month of my husband's life...his run-down of his to-do list, broken down by days, ran through three pages of legal pad as of last night, and will be approximately two and a half weeks of jam-packed 8-hour workdays. We're estimating three weeks, to allow some wiggle room in case of hangups...and then we have to figure out the move itself.
I'm planning to take at least two weekdays off work to do the move, but April is a mess of obstacles... Greg's planned trip to Chicago the weekend of the 12th, to see Amanda Palmer with his friend (I'll be staying home), should be approximately a week after the vital work is complete. It would be awful trying to move on the day after Greg gets home, since he'll be exhausted, so the early part of the following week is out. Then I'm blocked out of leaving the office for the latter part of that week, since my counterpart has scheduled vacation. Then there's Easter weekend, which of course would be a terrible time to schedule movers...and we leave for FL and my brother's wedding on April 29. That narrows down our potential move dates to sometime between 4/6-4/10, or between 4/22-26. That's it. We have to be out of the apartment by the end of April - the more time we have to settle in between the move and the FL trip, the better (especially in terms of my absence from the office) - that's a point in favor of moving before the 12th; I could spend the weekend alone unpacking, rather than packing. But pressing for the house to be completely ready by the 6th or the 8th would put a lot of stress on Greg, as would knowing he was leaving the empty apartment un-cleaned and un-returned until after his trip. (Yes, I can work on cleaning the old place, too. But of the two of us, he's definitely the one with the Mad Skillz at dirty domestic work. I'm not ashamed to admit it, I have a House Husband and I'm grateful every day.) So... do we just schedule the move for the day after Easter, a week before our big vacation, and save the bulk of the settling-in for after we return?
I've managed to finagle free or cheap assistance out of a few of the best contractors I work with, here, at least. It's a perk of the job - I have a 15-year relationship with an architect who will do up free blueprints for us and ensure we know where all the structural walls are, a massively experienced electrician who'll give us a great rate and highly personalized service, and a paving contractor who's promised to personally ensure we get the best deal possible on our needed driveway repair. And my company's Roofing Superintendent has promised to have his guys get up on the roof to do the minor caulking and painting Greg would have had to rent a ladder to do himself...we'll buy the materials, but they won't charge us for the work. The only contractor I don't already have an in for, really, is the plumber - and we have a ton of plumbing work to do over the next few weeks. So I'm using a service provided us by the home inspector, to match us with compatible contractors - not sure yet that I trust it, but they're prompt, I'll give them that. Within 3 minutes of my project request, 2 plumbers had contacted me to discuss the work...
In other news, OMG this unicorn hoodie project looks AMAZING. Photos to come by next Monday at latest; my friend will come try it on tomorrow, and I'll take a ton of show-off shots with him modeling it. And he and I will be taking a short road trip tomorrow, too - a guy out in Newark is selling a fantastic commercial wine rack that I desperately want for my basement. M's car is big enough to load the thing, so I'll take his assistance and company as fair payment for the week of intensive sewing work. :)
