First Order of Business.......

FIX THE GAS LEAK!!!

We didn't move into the house right away but when we finally came to grips with reality (we had tenants moving into the condo so we had to get out) we packed up Little Green Truck a.k.a LGT and made our way to Meredith with our first load of stuff. 

I remember Peter opening up the garage and there a was VERY STRONG odor that wasn't dead people, dead rodents or stale beer from a raging party....it was the smell of a gas leak.  AWESOME!!! You can imagine how excited we were (Not Really).  Fixing a gas leak was not first on our initial priority list of home improvement projects, at least it wasn't on my list. 

It hit us that during the escrow process the seller actually bothered to waste $350 on a home warranty...Ahhhhh my night was looking up.  The initial call was a breeze the home warranty had a plumber out here the next day.  The guy shows up...Peter took him over to the side yard where the gas line leaves the meter and without any further investigation the man proclaims "You have a gas leak" and so he asks for his $60, says that it will be about $2,400 to fix the leak (mind you he never once went under the house to investigate the routing of the plumbing), says that we should make friends with the neighbors or join a gym because we weren't going to have hot water for a while and then says that he'll report it to the home warranty but he doubts that it will be covered.

I can write an entire blog on how useless this plumbing company was and how inefficient, inadequate and unsympathetic this idiot was, but I won't.  Peter contacted the home warranty a few days later who still hadn't received the recommendations from the plumbing company and after sitting on hold and escalating the situation to I believe several levels of management he finally talked to someone that cared.  Unfortunately our policy didn't cover the $2,400 repair but they said that they would cover half or that they would pay us out $1,000.  If any of you know Peter you can guess which option he went with........

Next Stop Home Depot!

We picked up the necessary supplies (Totaling less then $200), purchased an old flight suite from the army surplus store, suited Peter up and sent him into the dark crevasses of our crawl space and about five hours later he had managed to re-route the gas line.....MY HERO!

Here is before:

Here is After: