Our house is falling apart.....ok, not really, but it feels like it.
It started in May with this:
Our AC unit. Apparently, when we moved into our house, our home builder, Newmark, put in a unit that was too small for our house. They put in a 3 ton unit and we were supposed to have a 5 ton unit. So, every summer (our house is only 4 years old), something would go wrong with the AC and it would break. We finally had to bite the bullet and buy another unit. Ugh. On the bright side, our AC is wonderful now and I have peace of mind that it won't break again!
June has been an eventful month as well. Right around the beginning of June, I noticed that my oven was cooking things very fast.
I found out first by burning a breakfast casserole to a crisp and it still had 40 minutes on the timer to go! Next came the cupcakes for Jillian's party. They were supposed to take 24 minutes and they were done in 8! I was actually thinking that this could really save me some time! LOL.
Well, a few days later, I turned on the oven to heat a hot dog bun and after about 2 minutes (because it heats so fast) I took it out and turned OFF the oven. I then went upstairs to put Jillian down for her nap. When I came back down the stairs, I felt heat. I thought maybe I had forgotten to turn the oven off. I checked it and it was turned to OFF, but the oven was ON and blazing hot! I think it heated itself up to 500 degrees!
It would not turn off and it was quickly heating my house. Thankfully my parents and my brother came over and turned off the breaker and gas. We had to call someone to fix it....apparently we had a bad thermostat.
Moving on. This week, I noticed that all our sinks and toilets were making gurgling sounds.
Not good.
Called someone out and to make a loooong story short... our clean out drain (which I had no idea about, but it's in your front yard) was broken. The sewer line was broken!!! It had been broken since we moved in and had been filling with mud and stuff for 4 years! That's why we were having gurgling sounds etc.
Apparently, when they landscaped our yard, they ran right over our clean out drain and broke it. Again, thanks Newmark.
We got that fixed. It's nice to be able to shower at my own house again (and wash dishes and clothes!)
This is our new clean out drain! Isn't it beautiful?? :) I kid. There was a big bush in the empty space, but now just this pretty little white drain. (I think the workers left a blue washrag...not sure what it's doing there)
June is coming to a close and I'm praying that July and August are nicer to us!
