Life & Times at The McCash Manor: July 2017

Buying a house wasn't necessarily something that we were planning on doing right away but when our landlord told us they wanted to move back into their house and gave us 30 days to move we had to act fast! I think we looked at 10 or 12 homes over the course of 4 days. Then one morning I woke early to browse the MLS and I saw 1. a corner lot & 2. a pool home!! Gary looked at it that day and we made our offer that afternoon. 21 days later we moved in. This was an investor owned home and was a rental for quite some time. A little run down but had good bones! Just enough of a fixer upper for Gary.

Now about the pool...

This first photo was taken on April 19th, 2015. You can see some discoloration on the bottom of the pool. I think it kind of resembles the shadow of a tall man.

Next we have the photo taken on April 23rd, someone has definitely cleaned the pool and it looked great! What we didn't realize was that they had just painted over the old cracking plaster with blue paint! So over the next year and a half it slowly brushed away and revealed the damaged plaster underneath. Not to mention the effort Gary put in to keep it clean with the rough and uneven surface. We also were aware that the pool was losing water quickly and we suspected it was leaking due to the cracks in the plaster. We made the decision to empty the pool and Gary was going to do the work himself. I wish I had some photos of him moving 20K+ gallons of water out of the pool with a 5 gallon bucket and a rope. I guess I could show you a picture of his arms :) When most of the water was gone Gary began to demo out the plaster at the steps. Many hours with little progress. Larger tools were needed! We got an estimate with a price that was better than the hours it would take Gary to do it on his own and it took 3 days on the job for it to be completed!! Demo, tile, plaster and fill the pool!