We’re getting major repairs done on our house this week, courtesy of our plump insurance settlement from December’s ice storm. Our house’s foundation has serious moisture problems, requiring joists to be replaced. This entails jacking the house up a bit, lots of sawing and hammering, and even a crew of brickmasons to open holes in our home’s exterior to get to the rotted joists.
We’ve been treated this week to loud sawing, hammering, and random, unpredictable bumps during the day. With each one, I tell Kelly “that’s the sweet sound of freedom.” You see, this stuff’s been on our list of things to get done before we sell our house.
And it seemed for so long like we’d never get around to doing it. It’s been needing to be done since we moved into the house four years ago. Facing the daunting bills for doing the job right, we simply avoided it as long as we could.
The misery of December’s ice storm led to the joy of getting a fat insurance check; one that covered more than just our roof repair. Overnight, we could afford to knock out the big repair headache that had been bugging us for years. That tree might as well have been heaven-sent.
And through some other miracle, our daughter Hallie has slept through every loud crash and disruption. It is a happy home, if not necessarily a quiet one.