m_shortpants
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Greetings house-GAF
My wife and I closed on our first home last week. It's a condo in Silicon Valley. Woefully overpriced, and it feels bad knowing I could get a single family home in most other states, but oh well, at least with my payments I'll be getting a tiny amount of equity.
The condo used to be a unit that the owner rented out, but after her last lease was up she renovated the whole thing and put it up for sale. So the carpet is new, the kitchen has new counters, cabinets, appliances, and the same goes for the bathroom.
Everything is great except for two items which may be related.
1. The dryer is currently exhausting into the hallway...yeah there's just a duct coming out the back that is pointing upwards and is covered with a stocking. Apparently there's no exhaust vent, but j have to verify this. It's been a little hard because it's a closet and the dryer and washer are arranged as if they're a combo unit, but they're not. So it's been hard to try adlnd pull it out by myself. So I ran the dryer a few times and it was just pumping moist air into the condo, which is definitely not right and a red flag. If there's no exhaust, I'm thinking I'll have to replace it with a compact ventless dryer.
2. My wife found a cockroach on the floor just walking around. The only place I think it could have come from is behind the washer...there's a gap in the wall which I think is the only entry unless it came out the bathroom plumbing. What's the best way to.deal with roaches?
But other than these two issues, it's been great so far.
My wife and I closed on our first home last week. It's a condo in Silicon Valley. Woefully overpriced, and it feels bad knowing I could get a single family home in most other states, but oh well, at least with my payments I'll be getting a tiny amount of equity.
The condo used to be a unit that the owner rented out, but after her last lease was up she renovated the whole thing and put it up for sale. So the carpet is new, the kitchen has new counters, cabinets, appliances, and the same goes for the bathroom.
Everything is great except for two items which may be related.
1. The dryer is currently exhausting into the hallway...yeah there's just a duct coming out the back that is pointing upwards and is covered with a stocking. Apparently there's no exhaust vent, but j have to verify this. It's been a little hard because it's a closet and the dryer and washer are arranged as if they're a combo unit, but they're not. So it's been hard to try adlnd pull it out by myself. So I ran the dryer a few times and it was just pumping moist air into the condo, which is definitely not right and a red flag. If there's no exhaust, I'm thinking I'll have to replace it with a compact ventless dryer.
2. My wife found a cockroach on the floor just walking around. The only place I think it could have come from is behind the washer...there's a gap in the wall which I think is the only entry unless it came out the bathroom plumbing. What's the best way to.deal with roaches?
But other than these two issues, it's been great so far.