Out With The Old

I have mentioned several times about moving. While we didn’t move from where we lived we did move from our old home into a new home. We have lived at the current location off and on for about 15 years, this is a home my in laws purchased because they didn’t want neighbors. Since we lived here most our daughter’s life, my mother in law signed the place over to us when my father in law passed away.

While the home was livable at the time, it was in bad shape. We lived in a singlewide mobile home, that had old pipes and we had several water leaks. The place was hard to keep heated in the winter and hard to keep cold in the summer. We had black mold growing in every room, and the wiring was horrible.

We knew it was a matter of time before the place caught fire and we wanted a nice home to leave our child when the time comes for us to move on from this world.

In 2014, my husband and I started to talk about possibly getting a new home. We got a CD loan to help build our credit and when the time was right we started looking. We didn’t want to spend a lot, and we were looking at a few used doublewides. After weighing out our options, we decided it would be best to purchase a brand new one.

When we were ready with our credit, we started looking for the perfect home. We looked at a few different ones, but one caught our eyes. I will tell you more about the new home soon, I promise! We did all the paperwork, put down a down payment and waited to see if we would be approved.

We got the call on our daughter’s birthday we were approved and we needed to do more paperwork to close on the loan. We thought tearing down the old home wouldn’t take long, we were mistaken. With it mainly being my husband and I, and our daughter on some light work, it took over a month. A month of living in a tent, a month of hell working from the time we woke up until almost the time we went to bed.

We started breaking out the walls on the inside of the home.

This happened to be the fun part of the breaking down the 14×76 mobile home. After getting most the sheetdrock busted out we had the horrible job of pulling out all the moldy what was left insulation.

I ended up having to have the vacuum on hand while I pulled insulation and busted walls, every room had massive amounts of wasps in the walls, I kid you not when I vacuumed hundreds if not thousands of these things.

Once we had most the walls out, our once home was looking like a shell.

At this point I was getting rather emotional, I mean this was our home for along time, and seeing it in pieces, was breaking my heart.

We attempted to do this fast, so we didn’t break out all the walls, we didn’t remove the ceiling and take the roof down piece by piece, which was a mistake, because we ended up with more work and it took a lot longer. A friend came and helped a bit and hooked his truck to it, we ended up with part of the roof and a HUGE mess in the front yard. It was fun though watching as they tried to pull it down with the truck.

After getting it down half way with the truck, we took our four-wheeler to it and got it down the rest of the way.

The hard part was cutting the floors out and hauling it off.

After going at this for a little over a month, we were ready to be out of the tent, so we stopped hauling it off and started pushing it out of the way, we wanted a break we were all sick.

We got the spot cleared for our new home and we were able to sit back and relax while they got the area ready for our new home.

While we still have a lot of work ahead of us, we’re in a home that is stable, that has heat, that has air and one that doesn’t have mold growing in it. Looking for In With The New.