Living Without Walls

I moved to the house that I live in now around the summer of last year.  We had been

planning to move there for a while but couldn’t because of many problems.  My great

grandpa  lived in the house and when he died we inherited it.  But no one ever took care of

the house so by the time it was ours the houses plumbing and electricity didn’t work so we

had to basically take apart the entire house until there was no ceiling, no walls, and in some

rooms no floor.

The first thing that we tried to get done was the plumbing and I think that in total it

took about a year to complete.  We had to get a permit to dig a very large hole in the yard

to put the septic tank in, but we had to get a permit in order to proceed.  This took a lot of

time.  When we finished all of that we put in the wiring for everything which took quite a long

time and I don’t think we finished it by the time we moved in the house.  I think that we still

had to install some light fixtures.  The light switch in my room only worked for a month or so

and then it didn’t work.  We replaced the light bulb but it never fixed the problem. I never

made a big deal out of so it never got fixed.

After we got the electricity and the plumbing done we got sheetrock and put up the

walls.  After we did all of that we spent our first night in the house.  There was still only

plywood on the floors, so we couldn’t sleep in our own rooms.  We all spent the night in my

parents room because that was the only room in the house that would serve to sleep in.  My

parents and sister slept on the one bed and I slept on the floor.  A couple days later we

spent the night in our own rooms because we put down the flooring and moved our beds to

our room.  At this point all I had in my room was a couch.  Once we moved a TV and my

xbox into my room I spent a lot of my time playing that.

For around six to eight months I was depressed because my dad wasn’t working

because crab season hadn’t started and it got delayed to be in mid December much like

this year.  However the difference between this year and last year is that my mom wasn’t

working either.  So nobody was making money and didn’t get unemployment checks as

often as we were supposed to.  Now my mom is working and the house is in much better

condition than it was a year ago.  Once my dad started crab season we started making

money again and we were able to make the house a better place to live in.