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Homeless We sold our old house, and as of Sunday night I'm homeless for awhile.
We're in the final process of building a house, but its not quite finished yet, so untill it is finished we're staying with some friends.
We did pass the final inspection yesterday, so that's one big hurdle to get over. Next is just getting our contractor to get the darn thing finished, and then give us all the money that he owes us.
The house was supposed to be done a month ago. Our builder is a POS and we can't wait to be done putting up with his crap.
High on my priority list of things to do is to wire up a couple of 220 outlets for my air compressor, welder, and powder coating oven!
We're in the final process of building a house, but its not quite finished yet, so untill it is finished we're staying with some friends.
We did pass the final inspection yesterday, so that's one big hurdle to get over. Next is just getting our contractor to get the darn thing finished, and then give us all the money that he owes us.
The house was supposed to be done a month ago. Our builder is a POS and we can't wait to be done putting up with his crap.
High on my priority list of things to do is to wire up a couple of 220 outlets for my air compressor, welder, and powder coating oven!
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High on my priority list of things to do is to wire up a couple of 220 outlets for my air compressor, welder, and powder coating oven!
powder coating oven???!!!??!!!
you're gonna be my new best friend
sorry to hear things are taking longer than expected,
that's my big fear with building a new place
Sorry to hear being behind schedule. I think you have to automatically assume they will be behind what ever schedule they tell you. The house I had built in Idaho before leaving was 3 months late. Was suppose to be done at end of August, but we didn't close on it until middle of November, but I had already partially moved in in September.
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Hopefully the inconvenience of staying at your friend's will be all worth it when you get into your brand new house that is how you want it and that no one has ever lived in before. 
And like someone else said, you can pretty much guarantee that when having a home built it will be behind schedule 99.9% of the time.
Anyway, keep us posted and congrats on selling your old house!!
And like someone else said, you can pretty much guarantee that when having a home built it will be behind schedule 99.9% of the time.
Anyway, keep us posted and congrats on selling your old house!!
This is the part I like of having had a family business of building custom homes because we can build most of it ourselves - though growing up it seemed like a pain in the ***.
Hopefully it won't run too much longer for you and make sure the builder sticks to his warranty on the house!
Hopefully it won't run too much longer for you and make sure the builder sticks to his warranty on the house!
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Well tomorrow night I won't be homeless any more....granted my new "home" has a 454....but at least we won't be imposing on our friends anymore.
We went and looked at a 22' Class A motor home (1985 model) today and decided to get it. Since banks aren't open today, and the guy wouldn't take a personal check (which I really don't blame him) we have to go back to get it tomorrow.
It's over in Lake Stevens, so its a trek for us, but it will be good for us. We were thinking of getting a motorhome sometime anyways, so this will work out.
We went and looked at a 22' Class A motor home (1985 model) today and decided to get it. Since banks aren't open today, and the guy wouldn't take a personal check (which I really don't blame him) we have to go back to get it tomorrow.
It's over in Lake Stevens, so its a trek for us, but it will be good for us. We were thinking of getting a motorhome sometime anyways, so this will work out.
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I know "Harvey" is my big competition. I don't think we really need to run them at the track, cause in a 1/4 mile we wouldn't be breaking the speed limit 
I just need to come up with a cool name for mine. Mine is a Winabego....hmmmm
I just need to come up with a cool name for mine. Mine is a Winabego....hmmmm
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Well I got "Kenny the Winnie" home last night.
I was really pleasantly surprised how straight and easy it went down the freeway at 60. Other than being significantly wider than my other vehicles, it didn't take a whole lot of extra "effort" to drive it.
We slept in it last night, and it was fine, though a little cold. We're going to go get some propane for it tonight.
I was really pleasantly surprised how straight and easy it went down the freeway at 60. Other than being significantly wider than my other vehicles, it didn't take a whole lot of extra "effort" to drive it.
We slept in it last night, and it was fine, though a little cold. We're going to go get some propane for it tonight.
If the propane tank is empty you may want to bleed the lines first - they can get cranky. Best bet for heat is hooking up to a 220 and using a space heater inside. Those forced air units suck propane and are rarely cleaned, waste of propane overall. An external 30 gal tank will run about $120-150 with duel valve and shut off. Great if you don't need to dump the tanks and reset the damn thing level again.
Check the water heater panel while you are at it, they blow fast and an upgrade to a solid circuit board is about $95 (easy to install yourself) and well worth it. Use Camping Worlds *catalog* for buying, cheaper than going down there for just about any part like that.
Pull the in house circuit panel and check all fuses. If you are on external 220 then you need to know why something didn't work when it should have. All too often its just a blown fuse. Winnies usually have online wiring diagrams to 1984 (I think) so its good to know in case it was messed with. Remember, sparks from it=bad.
Overall they aren't bad units. Did you get a three or four jack? Easy to live in and don't forget chock blocks even if you are on level ground
Check the water heater panel while you are at it, they blow fast and an upgrade to a solid circuit board is about $95 (easy to install yourself) and well worth it. Use Camping Worlds *catalog* for buying, cheaper than going down there for just about any part like that.
Pull the in house circuit panel and check all fuses. If you are on external 220 then you need to know why something didn't work when it should have. All too often its just a blown fuse. Winnies usually have online wiring diagrams to 1984 (I think) so its good to know in case it was messed with. Remember, sparks from it=bad.
Overall they aren't bad units. Did you get a three or four jack? Easy to live in and don't forget chock blocks even if you are on level ground