Fridge Roundup Day!

I could hardly wait to have the big dirty, moldy beast removed from the house! Oh my goodness it was truly disgusting! It was not quite finished defrosting after days of sucking energy and electricity from the power box!

I was told the fellows would be here between ten am and two pm. I got up early to wipe up the last of the water and to get the remains from the frosty unusable freezer pried out...and low and behold it was not quite ready! I put the coffee on, continued to make room for the dirty wet removal, tried some more....to no avail! After carefully weighing the odds, I determined the time frame was lose enough, they could not possibly arrive at the earlier end! Oh sooo wrong, of course since i was not ready the truck could be heard rumbling down the street at nine forty am!

Oh Oh Oh! What is a girl to do??? I said they were realllly early for the time frame, they should work for the cable company! So they come in, and say yep it is not quite done defrosting! One of the requirements is that it be totally defrosted...at least it did not say spotlessly clean! So they wrinkled up their noses, said oh well and worked away at the removal!

Oh what a very very happy day! So excited for the next leg of reno to be on it's way! Nice photos to boot! I have entered the beast in the fridge roundup contest~ the prize is 1500 dollars to a new fridge! I have the new fridge, and wow what a dream it is!

The Energy Audit

This was an interesting experience! I have a bunch of ummmm issues that are desperately in need of repair. The fellow doing the audit got it all set up, and then asked how many windows were still open as he was unable to get a vacuum or a decent read!

Oh my goodness, i said there was a hole in the back addinsky roof, did he want me to cover it? he goes out back to take a look and discovers that the back door does not lock, thanks to lying larry, and the hole is rather large, add to that that the dining room wall of lathe no plaster is gap to the basment, and and and! oh myyyyyyy....

So the end result since it is a beginning point that he is after, is that he has to fudge the numbers a bit! At first he wanted to use the neighbors read, however i kiboshed that since the neighbors house is in much better shape and a whole smaller. He said he would have to adjust them. He also went thru and explained where i needed to add insulation, how much rebate i could entertain getting back if i did the whole nine yards, and all about the new windows and doors and weather stripping. I was surprised to learn that his audit had nothing to do with appliance energy star rating, and keeping the old fridge plugged in would have no effect either!

I also learned this week, just after the energy audit that my fridge is actually not hard wired to the panel in the basement after all! that was kind of surprising. I was told both appliances were hard wired and when dad replaced the stove outlet, he said that both appeared to be the same shoddy connection!

Oh my this house is in such bad bad shape! By Christmas time i have high hopes that i will be decorating the main floor for a full out festive Christmas season...time will tell!