20 years of debt!
Settlement happened this afternoon at about 2:10pm. And we now officially own our house!
Or rather, the bank does. And in 20 years or so, we will. But we get to live in it til then.
And tonight, we took our first walk around the streets. With moving into a much quieter area, we decided it would be good to start walking regularly and getting a bit fit. And so we started walking around the Westleigh streets tonight. So quiet and peaceful. I loved it. Can’t believe I actually liked exercise.
I thought I’d get into this homeowner thing and start being handy around the house this evening. First project was to disable our annoying alarm system. It’s mains powered, but has a battery backup. And if the mains power is cut, or the powerpoint gets turned off, it goes off. Annoying. And the battery backup is seemingly dead, and so the alarm system whinges about that every hour, on the hour. Doubly annoying. And we really don’t think we’ll use an alarm system, so I thought I’d be all masculine and sort it out once and for all. My thoughts: surely changing the battery backup is just opening the front casing and swapping it over. Except rather than swapping, I’ll just remove the battery. And then I’ll turn the mains power off, and it won’t be able to do anything! And I’ll have fixed it!
Problem was the bugger had a sensor on the front casing, so as soon as I unscrewed it and opened it, the alarm went off. Very noisily. Alarm 1, James 0. Is there no way to disable this stupid thing without paying someone to come out and do it?!
Working from home tomorrow as I wait for some dude to rock up and see if our washing machine is fixable or if it’s time for a new one, and how much all that will cost so I can claim it on the removal insurance. And I’ll also be heading over to Normanhurst for the final inspection of that house, and handing them the keys back.
Bye bye Normanhurst. Hello Westleigh.