#collapsing house

[cloudsjulett]

[balkanradfem]

Abandoned houses I discovered in my neighborhood on a walk the other day. They're so perfectly creepy. I didn't walk in but stuck my hands thru the window holes to snap inside pictures. Love abandoned houses. 

[slowtumbling]

Avarice

A big red-lettered sign outside the house pronounced it CONDEMNED, and still I ventured across the creaky porch into the dark abyss that lay beyond the doorway. The sign should have been enough. The sagging roof should have been enough. The busted windows, the weeds grown waist-high against the steps, the porch boards soft beneath my feet like wet bread. Even the silence should have warned me,…

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[brokenmusicboxwolfe]

On a post about the embarrassment I  felt having a visitor coming today to my disaster of a home..

jamisings said: I wish I was rich so I could just send you a ton of money so you could fix everything up.

I really appreciate that thought. Thank you for that! I’m always wishing I could help people I know on here too, unfortunately none of us are rich!LOL

I’m sorry I was moaning about it. I really do try not to but sometimes...***sigh***

Today went better than it could have. My cousin was kept safely away from the house and we ended up spending the day at a bird park, meaning distraction from our situation...for the most part. Which is good since I was too sleep deprived to have dealt with it! I only snapped a few times, pretty much at “you should have” type comments. But those always get to me....

[brokenmusicboxwolfe]

Mom’s suggestion:

We don’t take anything else out of the house, but just move it around. Remove sections of the floor carefully, then stack cinder blocks and put the floor back on top of it.

Me:....

Mom: It would be easy.

Me: I suggested using cinder blocks a year ago before it fell. But here is the thing...some of the floor is so far gone I can tear it apart with my bare hands. We can’t just remove sections and put it back. We need new flooring. And the cinder blocks wick up moisture so we will need a barrier for that. And the blocks will sink into the ground with time, and sinking at different rates could cause big problems. And...

Mom: But it would be easy! And it might last until we are both dead....

Me:...,,,,,..um, how long are you expecting me to live????

[brokenmusicboxwolfe]

So Mom got up early, skipped breakfast, and spent most the day waiting for the boss of the jerks that scammed her on the roof repair. He said he would come in the morning and call first, but she thought she should wait just in case. It got to be well into the afternoon with no sign, so she came here for lunch.

They came while she was gone.

One hour for a late lunch, and he came without a phone call!

I know he didn’t want to face her. I bet this is just going to turn into a worse nightmare.....

[brokenmusicboxwolfe]

One advantage of an unheated house in cool/cold weather : If you leave the milk out on the counter for hours, it won’t hurt it.

On disavantage of an unheated house in cool/cold weather : You take butter out of the fridge to soften for making something and an hour later it is still rock hard.

[brokenmusicboxwolfe]

I have just discovered that the window in my bedroom that had been mostly unreachable thanks to a bookcase has been open by a couple of inches!

That explains a lot!

Unfortunately, because of the collapsing floor and the moisture it no longer fits well in the frame so I can’t shut it!

Oh well....duct tape time until I figure out something else....like when I feel better and it isn’t raining out.