House Maintenance

My husband has taken the lead in getting our existing house ready to go on the market. We are enjoying a new refrigerator as a result because the old one’s ice maker was expensive/time consuming (a special order) to replace. We bought another black, side-by-side. It is the same size on the outside, but the inside seems to have more room and there is no ‘handle’ that sticks out from the door so the area in front of the refrigerator seems larger. I like it….and I hope a new owner will as well.

He also did a radon test; the sump pump (that wasn’t working) replaced by a plumber when the result was a little high. Now he has done another test. If it isn’t low enough, he’ll have a specialist in radon remediation decide the best approach.

We are getting rid of our lawn mower before we leave so he has already hired a yard mowing service to mow the yard every 2 weeks. Right now he is leaving it to me to clean out the flower beds and we’ll put down mulch in some of them.

Last weekend we started the process to get the house recarpeted shortly after our belongs are out of the house.

Since we already did one round of interior and exterior painting touch up back in March – we are hoping that we won’t have more to do after the furniture is gone.

Hopefully we have identified the most significant maintenance items…we’re primed to contact a realtor!