My Life

When Cortney and I were building this beautiful home in which we now reside, we went to the Woodside Homes Design Center to pick out all the goods. Carpets, tiles, countertops, cabinets, etc. We made the decision at that time to upgrade several things, including our Master Bathroom. Now, I do NOT want to sound ungrateful. I love my house. However, after living here for some time, I have realized that we could have put our upgrades into certain things like a 3rd car garage (which now comes standard with no extra cost, by the way, which for us would have been an extra $11,000). I have realized that we could have upgraded some of the cosmetic things later, after we lived here for a while and realized what really matters. Like I would so totally get darker carpet now. We have a nice upgraded speckled tanish color with a brown speckle to it...all these little things come with life experience and having three kids to ruin things. I am not complaining. I am simply explaining this as an introduction to what has happened to our house in the past two weeks. Something that we actually put money into that is literally flushing down the toilet this very minute...(Okay, I am being dramatic...most of it is going to be fixed by the people who created the problem...I'm just saying...)

So we majorly upgraded our master bathroom. We tiled the entire thing, shower and all in a beautiful tile and it is great. Sooooo....downstairs in our kitchen a few weeks ago I noticed the ceiling has some discoloring. Yellow spotting. As if there has been some water leakage there. I pointed this out to Cortney. He figured out that this is right below where our master shower is...NOT GOOD.

We call our friend and plumber Dusty to come out and check it out. He realized almost immedietly that our shower tile was slanted to one corner where the water pools rather than going to the drain. Cortney and I had always noticed this and did our best to guide the water to the drain when we were done showering, but we thought it was supposed to be that way...apparently not. I guess we knew it was supposed to go to the drain, but I just noticed it and never really thought something like that would have been so very wrong and thought it was probably no big deal. So I just let it go. Oh no, it is apparently very wrong. Sooo...now we have not only the whole shower is tiled wrong on the bottom, which by itself, is not a big deal. But we have a leak in the kitchen. This is most likely because of the hole in the corner of the bottom of the shower from where all this water has been pooling (its hard to notice visibly). So we call Woodside. We are directed to a whole bunch of different people involved in the plumbing and tiling of our house. First, the tiling people come out. Then, they send the plumber out. Then the tiling people are going to come back out again.

It turns out the pan underneath the tile in the shower probably has a massive crack in it, probably because of the tiling being done wrong, etc. etc. Thats a lot of probably's if you ask me. I want real answers! REAL. ANSWERS. REAL SOLUTIONS.

This is my beautiful shower now...
This is the first hole created in my kitchen ceiling to check for leaks...

This is what ended up being the holes in my kitchen. Nice. And can you see the stip of yellowing just to the left almost on the edge of this picture. When I showered last night (as I was told to by the plumber to test something), water came pouring down out of this hole and leaked from the yellowing on the left. Good thing I moved the kitchen table out of the way...

So are you thinking about buying a new house now??? Just know that 3 years into a new house should NOT have problems like this. Thats one of the benefits of buying new right? So you avoid the problems that happen in older homes? I guess not so much with Woodside. Repairs are supposed to start happening on Thursday... Hopefully then I can post some pictures that are happier in nature!