The winter is only nice for being in the pines with no concerning bugs and being able to see.
Oh yeah, I'd be out there at least one day a week except I've been going non-stop since I closed. The guy who had this home before me either tried fixing things to just get by, or he hired local tradesmen who were brutal on the house. A few instances:
-- He had two bathroom fan vents (from separate bathrooms) going through the same roof vent, and one entered the main pipe at a 90 degree angle. The vent leaked when it rained, but he just put a bucket under it in the attic.
-- I asked him to remove the heater humidifier in the attic (furnace is up there) because it kept freezing. The furnace man came over and did a slop job. Did you ever realize that some tradesmen, when they do attic work, they toss things behind their shoulder as they work (snipped vent metal, wrapping paper, stipped electrical wires, etc.)
-- Probably several years ago, one of the workers stepped on the dryer vent at an elbow and separated it. He stuffed some insulation over it and never told anyone. The dryer would spit out the lint into the attic like cow patties. Below is the dryer vent.
-- When they last tiled the bathroom floors, they never corrected the toilet flange height and it was at least 1/2" below the finished floor. Of course the lazy installer just wadded a bunch of wax rings together to make up the height. What a mess!
-- The large kitchen windows were caulked shut in the lower half all around the sash. They were chilly.
Sorry for the rant, had to get it off my chest.
