The basement and washer and dryer

The first project that needed to be tackled was the scary basement so that we could get a laundry room going.

It is all cement with no ceiling, just open framing. Very dirty. Full of spider webs and dust! Yucky!!! We bought our first "new homeowner" necessity to help us clean it out... A shop vac! (which sounds a lot like a shock vac!) We took turns sucking all the crud up. It was gross!

These pictures do not show how dirty and yucky it was... you will just have to trust me.

As soon as we could stand being down there, it was time to get a laundry room going...

I am so proud of my hubby for getting everything all figured out with our washer and dryer! First he did a bunch of research on used appliances and we were able to get a very nice used washer and dryer for about $300 instead of new ones for more than $1000. It was a STRUGGLE to get them downstairs!! Devin saved our lives again by helping Morgen get them down the stairs. I think each of them left the scene with sore backs and feet injuries. Our stairs are very steep, very narrow, and have a right angle at both the top and bottom. I wish I had pictures of them getting the washer and dryer down the stairs! It was nuts!!

Morgen then set out to get them all hooked up. Like I said, I am so proud of him for tackling this task. The first thing that went wrong was the valves leaked. When he hooked them up and turned the water on it sprayed all over! So he had to replace one whole valve and just a part on the other valve and new hoses for each. Once the hoses were working the drain went crazy and we got a minor mudslide in our basement. After much work and trial and error our washer and dryer look great and work great! Here a a few pics of them all set up.

At this point we are figuring out that no job is a quick job. Everything takes much longer than we think!!!