October and Home Improvement

Well it is only October 2nd and in the last two days we have been busy at work with all things house and yard. Our fireplace guys came yesterday and set up everything for our gas fireplace to work.  I have to say I am loving having fireplace by remote control! Sure beats hauling in the wood and lighting the fire and then cleaning up.  If you are in the hampton roads area and need some help with your gas fireplace try using  Log Doc. They were fabulous.

Today we had the chimney doctors come out. Since the 'monsoon' started last week we noticed that we had some water leaking into our sealed fireplace. Not good, so they came out today. Turns out we had a cracked cap and no cover. Oops, kind of wished that was noticed during the home inspection. Turns out we had a fake chimney as well that was once used for the old furnace. Long story short this wasn't sealed either. Hello...people who put the new furnace in don't you think you should have told the owner that he needed to have that chimney sealed. The man who owned this house prior to us took immaculate care of it and didn't do it in a cheap way. So I know if he would have been told he would have taken care of it.  Oh well, the good news is that we found it and can fix it before any real damage is done. They also gave us a great discount. God blessed us today with a great team of chimney guys at reasonable prices.

J also has big plans for tilling the backyard and laying down grass seed. So hopefully we can have some grass back there soon. I leave you with a pic of our fireplace burning! If you are in the area stop on by and we can drink some hot cocoa and enjoy the fire. :)