Auctions and heat

These past few weeks have been hot around here. With a daily temperature around 90and a heat index around 100 it is tough to want to do much. That being said, I wanted to talk about the house and how energy efficient it already is. The downstairs of the house is approximately 2200 square feet. We have one 110volt 5000BTU window air conditioning unit in a window. The average inside temperature runs about 81 on these 90 + days. The inside of the 600 square foot trailer we are living in with three of the same air conditioners running....is 85. The trailer is from 1994 and we put newer windows and doors in it and it still gets that hot in here. Some days I go find things to work on in the house because it is actually cooler in there!

This last week we went to a couple of auctions. the first auction we went to we really didn't get anything. The second one we went to...we filled a 16 foot trailer and had to leave behind about 2 of the same trailers full of stuff. We spent a grand total of $86 with tax at the second auction.

All this trim we paid $25 for.

All this trim we paid $15 for.

We paid $20 and got 4 solid oak doors and 3 bi-fold oak doors.

We paid $5 for all these pieces of counter top. We bought one of them for my mom.

This is all that we could fit on the trailer to take home. We did not have a way to come back for the rest and it took us 4 hours to sort through and load all of this.

We have been putting some finishing touches on a few of the rooms. Chris and I both are getting overwhelmed with all the work to be done still so we decided to work on finishing a few of the rooms to make it feel more like we are making headway.

The trim is up and I am working on painting and then touch up paint. We have crown molding to put up in here. It is painted but we ran out of time this weekend to get it up.

This bedroom is DONE. ( except for touch up paint and cleaning)

One down and three more very close!