It’s been six months since we moved into this house, and the journey has been very diverse. I never thought we could do so many things in such a short time. I figured to compose a list of things we have done so far. So maybe some future house owners would know what it is like to start living in the house and what to expect. I am starting from the first things we did to the things we did most recently. So here it goes:
- Signed a contracts with the electricity, garbage cleanup service, internet service provider etc companies.
- Learned the house, which switches switch what appliances by trial and error and read the house schemes.
- Moved stuff from Triin’s place to the house multiple times with only the space in the car saloon because we did not have access to the cart.
- Moved my stuff from the capital to the new house with friends.
- Ordered bunch of stuff, so many in fact that we had like couriers two weeks in a row everyday
- Assembled living room furniture with some friends.
- Assembled office room furniture.
- Learned how to install washing machine.
- Installed washing machine and the dryer.
- Digged holes to total of 200 trees and planted those, some with friends some with Triin.
- Covered all those trees recently with nets so deers won’t eat them.
- Learned what oil goes to lawn-mower and set it up.
- Installed new flower amps to the side of the house.
- We installed with Triin’s uncle living-, bed- and officeroom lamps.
- Washed the sauna boardings.
- Filled many cracks in the wall with silicon so there would be a little less wind coming through wall electrical plugs. Going to have to take a look further on that topic in near future.
- Removed bath to add access shower.
- Learned how to install & installed shower curtain and drill holes to stone wall and screw stuff to it.
- Installed shower curtain.
- Set up a hook for the garden hose.
- We stained the whole terrace (about 60 square meters).
- Asked around who installed the geothermal heating system to the house so we could order once a year maintenance to it.
- Triin fixed one of the chairs which looked pretty new but only had seat base broken.
- Shot some screws to some faccade boards which were a bit off the wall.
- Fixed wardrobe slat in the guests room.
- Organized our clothes and other stuff after moving was done.
- Glued one of the kitchen slats back on to the cupboard.
- Installed mosquito nets to some of the doors which lead to terrace.
- Organized and threw away some stuff under the shelter, on the side of the house.
- Removed old glues stains off the wall from saunas shower room and installed new hooks.
- Re-painted old window frames.
- Tried to fix air conditioner on my own by learning from the internet, eventually figured I do not have the equiptment to do whats required for the fix.
- Cleaned air conditioner filters.
- Ordered repair man to fix the air conditioner.
- Installed new gaskets to most of the doors.
- Oiled some of the door inges.
- Fixed guestsroom tap pressure.
- Fixed a bit middle floor’s shower room tap pressure.
- Bought some new rope to old rope curtains and replaced the rope.
- Hosted midsummer’s day festival with friends.
- Fetched some antique bedside tables and drawers.
- Painted some parts of the outer wall and balcony which really had a need for some new paint.
- Ordered a chimney sweeper.
- Bought new outlet cover and installed it so it wouldn’t be exposed if someone goes to touch it.
- Repainted the well house with neighbors.
- Helped parents to build garden house near the seaside summer cottage.
- We mowed a lot of lawn (mowing lawn for the entire garden takes about 15km walking distance – measured with gps once).
- Asked electric company to what needs to be done to install solar panels.
- Ordered calculation of roof weight structure.
- Re-attached some boards which were sawwed off.
- Replaced light bulbs in kitchen, corridor and guestsroom which burnt out.
- Stained swing and climbing structures.
- Sealed closed terrace door’s window frames with film so snow would not fall in winter.
- Learned how to fix bicycle gears, breaks and such.
- Fixed Triin’s bicycle gears, breaks and saddle.
- Installed new fireplace tin.
- Threw about 10 house warming parties with different kinds of family and friend groups.
- Cut down some bigger underwood and made firewood from it just in case.
- Installed new mailbox with little stand and roof.
- Got ourselves a labrador puppy.
And also all the everyday stuff plus 8to5 job, our own company’s clients and their project related work. In conclusion it was a lot of work and very tireing but learned a lot from it and now when the days are getting shorter we can finally enjoy and rest more time indoors.