{"id":378,"date":"2022-10-30T11:56:59","date_gmt":"2022-10-30T09:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caupo.ee\/blog\/?p=378"},"modified":"2022-10-30T12:02:14","modified_gmt":"2022-10-30T10:02:14","slug":"what-to-expect-as-a-house-owner-in-first-6-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caupo.ee\/blog\/2022\/10\/30\/what-to-expect-as-a-house-owner-in-first-6-months\/","title":{"rendered":"What to expect as a house owner in first 6 months"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;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:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Signed a contracts with the electricity, garbage cleanup service, internet service provider etc companies.<\/li><li>Learned the house, which switches switch what appliances by trial and error and read the house schemes.<\/li><li>Moved stuff from Triin&#8217;s place to the house multiple times with only the space in the car saloon because we did not have access to the cart.<\/li><li>Moved my stuff from the capital to the new house with friends.<\/li><li>Ordered bunch of stuff, so many in fact that we had like couriers two weeks in a row everyday<\/li><li>Assembled living room furniture with some friends.<\/li><li>Assembled office room furniture.<\/li><li>Learned how to install washing machine.<\/li><li>Installed washing machine and the dryer.<\/li><li>Digged holes to total of 200 trees and planted those, some with friends some with Triin.<\/li><li>Covered all those trees recently with nets so deers won&#8217;t eat them.<\/li><li>Learned what oil goes to lawn-mower and set it up.<\/li><li>Installed new flower amps to the side of the house.\u00a0<\/li><li>We installed with Triin&#8217;s uncle living-, bed- and officeroom lamps.\u00a0<\/li><li>Washed the sauna boardings.\u00a0<\/li><li>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.<\/li><li>Removed bath to add access shower.<\/li><li>Learned how to install &amp; installed shower curtain and drill holes to stone wall and screw stuff to it.<\/li><li>Installed shower curtain.<\/li><li>Set up a hook for the garden hose.<\/li><li>We stained the whole terrace (about 60 square meters).<\/li><li>Asked around who installed the geothermal heating system to the house so we could order once a year maintenance to it.<\/li><li>Triin fixed one of the chairs which looked pretty new but only had seat base broken.<\/li><li>Shot some screws to some faccade boards which were a bit off the wall.<\/li><li>Fixed wardrobe slat in the guests room.<\/li><li>Organized our clothes and other stuff after moving was done.<\/li><li>Glued one of the kitchen slats back on to the cupboard.<\/li><li>Installed mosquito nets to some of the doors which lead to terrace.<\/li><li>Organized and threw away some stuff under the shelter, on the side of the house.<\/li><li>Removed old glues stains off the wall from saunas shower room and installed new hooks.<\/li><li>Re-painted old window frames.<\/li><li>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.<\/li><li>Cleaned air conditioner filters.<\/li><li>Ordered repair man to fix the air conditioner.<\/li><li>Installed new gaskets to most of the doors.<\/li><li>Oiled some of the door inges.<\/li><li>Fixed guestsroom tap pressure.<\/li><li>Fixed a bit middle floor&#8217;s shower room tap pressure.<\/li><li>Bought some new rope to old rope curtains and replaced the rope.<\/li><li>Hosted midsummer&#8217;s day festival with friends.<\/li><li>Fetched some antique bedside tables and drawers.<\/li><li>Painted some parts of the outer wall and balcony which really had a need for some new paint.<\/li><li>Ordered a chimney sweeper.<\/li><li>Bought new outlet cover and installed it so it wouldn&#8217;t be exposed if someone goes to touch it.<\/li><li>Repainted the well house with neighbors.<\/li><li>Helped parents to build garden house near the seaside summer cottage.<\/li><li>We mowed a lot of lawn (mowing lawn for the entire garden takes about 15km walking distance &#8211; measured with gps once).<\/li><li>Asked electric company to what needs to be done to install solar panels.<\/li><li>Ordered calculation of roof weight structure.<\/li><li>Re-attached some boards which were sawwed off.<\/li><li>Replaced light bulbs in kitchen, corridor and guestsroom which burnt out.<\/li><li>Stained swing and climbing structures.<\/li><li>Sealed closed terrace door&#8217;s window frames with film so snow would not fall in winter.<\/li><li>Learned how to fix bicycle gears, breaks and such.<\/li><li>Fixed Triin&#8217;s bicycle gears, breaks and saddle.<\/li><li>Installed new fireplace tin.<\/li><li>Threw about 10 house warming parties with different kinds of family and friend groups.<\/li><li>Cut down some bigger underwood and made firewood from it just in case.<\/li><li>Installed new mailbox with little stand and roof.<\/li><li>Got ourselves a labrador puppy.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/caupo.ee\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/postkast-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/caupo.ee\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/postkast-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/caupo.ee\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/postkast-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/caupo.ee\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/postkast-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/caupo.ee\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/postkast.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And also all the everyday stuff plus 8to5 job, our own company&#8217;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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;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. 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