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Hello, I'm MikeyTsi. I usually keep myself confined to the AI and D&D forums, but this doesn't appear to fit either political discussion or working on my car, so here goes. My mother died of cancer on May 23rd. She left me her house, and expressed that she'd REALLY like me to try to live there. Given that it was her residence for around 20 years, this means I need to make some,... changes in order to make it "different" enough that I could live there. Let's start with some pictures: Front of house:  Back yard (with a partial shot of the outbuilding):  Outbuilding(s):  Outbuilding 1 (eventually shop, storage, and server room):  Outbuilding 2 (tool shed):  Back yard:  Back yard:  Side of yard (that raised area used to be pretty much entirely blackberry bushes that had taken over):  Back patio (with shot of  Close up of  Here's some interior stuff. This is an additional room that was added to the house, making one of the rooms a "double room". I'm planning on making this a library/collectibles room:  Other "half" of the double room. Planning on making this in to an office:  Guest room:   Bathroom:  Living room:  Bonus/game room:  Utility room:  Sewing room:  Master bedroom:  Walk-in closet:  Master bath:  I somehow missed taking another few pictures of the exterior of the house, the kitchen, the bathroom, or a good picture of the guest room, I'll go snap some of those and edit them in to this post soon. MikeyTsi fucked around with this message at 04:17 on Aug 7, 2015 |
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List of things I want/need to do (in no particular order): Previous owners had installed loving carpet over the hardwood EVERYWHERE. I'm going to remove all the carpeting and reclaim the wood. Since they installed carpet, they raised the floor in the kitchen by about half an inch or so and put another thing of linoleum over the top. Need to get that pulled up and then the first layer of linoleum to get to the hardwood. New linoleum in the bathrooms (might just do hardwood in the one if it's still in good shape). Replace kitchen sink and install a new hot water dispenser and a garbage disposal (already has hookups). Replace refrigerator with a unit that has an ice and water dispenser (already has hookups). Kitchen has a modular gas range. Want to buy another set of burners (has a dual burner and a grill right now) for it. No hardwood in the library, but it looks like they at least built the subfloor right, so I can pull of a layer and lay flooring. Fix and clean the hot tub. Thinking about converting it to a saltwater system so I don't have to use chlorine. Repair and stain back fence. Due to its height I should install a third rail as well. Double the pickets in the front fence and paint. Paint house exterior. Replace the sheeting above the front and back patios. Need to remove a few trees from the back yard. One has split, with the split now going over the roof, and another's going to look weird being the only one there. The border of the uncovered portion of the back patio is old railroad ties, and they're totally rotted. Need to come up with another solution. Thinking about just slabbing the area in concrete after I remove the trees. Previous owners LOVED loving wallpaper. I hate wallpaper. Remove wallpaper, texture/fix holes and paint. When the previous owners did some of the addition work, it looks like they removed some roof beams. Need to fix that. Replace some flooring that separates the bonus/gaming room and the master bedroom, looks like it has pet damage. Replace carpet in sewing room and master bedroom. Run new telco/network/RG58 to every room. Not gonna do this until fall/winter, it's WAY too loving hot in the attic space. Replace exterior doors, key all doors to the same keys. Install electronic pet door(s). Put a loving door on the master bath. Looks like some dipshit roof guys just put shingles on top of shingles, and it's caused a leak. Going to have to pull that section up and re-lay. Replace fixtures. Home automation stuff. "Finish" the outbuildings (insulation, interior walls, etc). Remove the rocks from that raised area in the backyard and convert it back in to a vegetable/fruit garden. New HVAC? I really want AC in the house. Solar panels? Extend the master bathroom to the wall. Add a walk in shower on one side and a soaking tub on the other. And the bad news. It turns out I'm getting about 1/3rd that I was expecting from my mother's life insurance, and I may not be able to transfer the house to my name without going through probate, which might open up the property as an asset that creditors can go after. This means I need to pare back the stuff I was going to do pretty heavily, and I'll either need to do a home improvement loan to take up the slack and/or save up and do projects as I get the money together.
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Jul 28, 2015 07:15
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Okay, how about some WTF? I already mentioned in the previous post that some dipshits did a lovely job with part of the roof. I'll post pictures of that once I have the bravery to climb back up there. I'll also post some pics of what I'm talking about with the roof beams. Before my mother purchased the house, there was a couple that lived there. Why the hell didn't they have a door on the drat master bathroom? I'm seriously uncomfortable with the idea of pooping while someone's trying to sleep in the same airspace. They loved wallpaper. LOVED it. Loved it to the point that the office had no less than THREE layers, above the original paint (blue). But it doesn't stop there.  Not a portal to hell (I think). When they turned the room in to a double room, they walled up this closet and knocked the wall out in the guest room to have a double closet over there. THEN they put in a new closet along one wall. They of course pulled out off the wallpaper so they could set up a proper wall, right?   Nope. Well, when they knocked out the wall to create the entryway for the new room, they at least dewallpapered the area around there to give a good surface for that, right?   Yeah, that's a big loving "negatory" there too. I think I'm just going to take a blade to the wall for the closet to cut the wallpaper back, then spackle to give it a proper corner, I really don't want to rip that loving wall out just to fix that. I'll probably also just spackle the edges of the other "improvements" that were done to get rid of the edges, and it shouldn't be noticeable once I get texture and a coat of paint on it. More developments as I make discoveries. MikeyTsi fucked around with this message at 07:35 on Jul 28, 2015 |
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Jul 28, 2015 07:18
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Pile of Kittens posted:First off, I'm sorry you lost your mother. Ideally we all outlive our parents, but it's hard. My father passed away last December, and I'm managing the probate process, which should close up some time in October if we're lucky. Luckily (I guess) he didn't own any real estate, and never had any debt. Godspeed on making it through that whole process, and remember that you get what you pay for with lawyers. I'm paying a little extra but it's worth it in peace of mind that they won't let me miss any important dates. I'm actually setting up a consult with a family law attorney now. I can take care of most of it myself, I just need advice on what to do with the property transfer and asses what liabilities I may have to creditors if I have to take the property through probate. Most of my experience has been "I/we hate how this looks, I'm gonna get rid of it and see what happens". The living room area specifically originally had wood paneling on it and was carpeted, I pulled up the carpet, removed the tacks and such, removed some wood crap they'd installed in the entryway, pulled off all the lovely wood paneling then filled the holes, textured, and painted. The things holding up the sorting right now is that I have people that are "totally going to come and pick stuff up any day now". Once they do that or I get tired of waiting most of it is going to an estate sale and/or Goodwill, that which doesn't end up going to the dump. For the most part no, I started on stripping wallpaper and stuff before I started taking pictures. It's amazing what you'll discover when you start peeling wallpaper (as my next post will show). As far as the list: Trees Roof Beams Kitchen floor Hot Tub flooring Paint interior Paint exterior Sink/disposal/hot water That'll probably end up burning what funds I have unless I re-fi or get a home improvement loan. If I have any extra the next thing will be getting a new refrigerator. The pie-in-the-sky stuff is HVAC, renovating the master bath, and getting solar installed, so those will most likely come last. MikeyTsi fucked around with this message at 23:04 on Jul 28, 2015 |
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Jul 28, 2015 22:55
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Slung Blade posted:I love how there are already camshafts and cylinder heads in the workshop. Now ask how long that's been sitting in there. 
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Jul 28, 2015 22:55
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Sylink posted:That looks like a shitton of work, but for everyone else, get your family to get wills/estates in place with transfer on death for many things like houses/cars and save yourselves the pain of probate. My father is married, so I don't really need to worry about that for a while if ever, and my other "immediate" relatives have children and/or spouses that will get the joy of dealing with their estates.
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Jul 28, 2015 22:57
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I'll make fun posts until I get caught up, but to get up to date I've fully stripped the library, the office is mostly done (just need to clean up that gap area and strip the closets), three of four walls in the guest room are stripped, and most of the actual "wallpaper" has been pulled off most of the other areas, I'll be going back through with the paper tiger, DIF, and scraper to clear off the backing paper in the other areas. Carpet has been pulled up everywhere I plan on keeping wood except the guest room, and I'll be doing that shortly. I'm not too worried about getting paint and stuff on the wood, as I plan on doing a sanding job and then doing a nice swedish treatment or something to really seal it and protect it (I have 6
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Jul 28, 2015 23:05
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Floorplan! Note that this is "planned", the master bathroom is actually smaller than in the picture at present.
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Jul 29, 2015 01:57
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Three of four walls cleaned in the guest room. WHAT A LOVELY YELLOW  And this wall, a totally different color. Is that some,... writing there?  TOM MOOREMAN WAS HERE 12-7-90 THE END IS NOT YET HERE PRAISE THE LORD ..... Ooookay then.
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Jul 29, 2015 07:44
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Got a response from a family law attorney re: consult, will meet with her on Thursday or early next week.
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Jul 29, 2015 07:45
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Pile of Kittens posted:Amazing. Thank you, almighty lord, for deciding to not annihilate us this week. Amen.
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Jul 31, 2015 04:57
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First, added some guest room and bathroom pics to the OP. Yay edits! Second, I bought some new toys for the house:  Kenmore Elite fridge. Pretty much exactly what I was looking for (except it's not black or metal, but whatever), and it came with a spare filter, $795.  InSinkErator Evolution Compact-P. It's a pretty bad-rear end garbage disposal, if that's your thing. $65. Someone's selling a Whirlpool front-load washer/dryer for $550. Thinking about snapping them up. Okay, on to the work. I'm currently working on removing wallpaper from the guest room, and I've gotten the walls done. So I've started stripping the closets so I can remove the drat wallpaper from there too. First, I took pictures before removing the shelving and stuff so I can hopefully get it put back sort of the same way when I'm done:   And I started on the right hand one. Got the shelving removed and started on the wallpaper.  Well, I at least don't need to strip this paint off, right?  OH, GODDAMNIT.
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Aug 7, 2015 04:28
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some texas redneck posted:Can I ask why RG-58 cabling? It's very outdated at this point; all it's really used for today is antennas (mostly CB). I don't think it was really used in home wiring beyond amatuer radio and 10Base2. RG6, whatever. It would be if I ever decide I want Satellite/Cable TV again. Network connectivity is what the CAT6 is for.
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Aug 9, 2015 04:19
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Welp. Sometimes I just loving hate people. Doesn't look like they really took anything of value, other than some jewelry. I've already contacted the police and they'll likely have a detective come out at some point tomorrow to take the statement/inventory and hopefully try for some fingerprinting. And I'll need to contact insurance on Monday to report the damage and get a new door/frame, probably going to try for one that's reinforced a bit better. MikeyTsi fucked around with this message at 06:44 on Aug 9, 2015 |
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Aug 9, 2015 06:39
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Oh, I had my consult, looks like I'm going to have to go through probate to clear the title, which sucks because not only is it a pain in the rear end as far as time (and some expense), it means the property is going to become a probate asset which means I'm going to have to pay any of the creditors that forwards a valid claim if I'm going to keep the house. So, that sucks a bit. The Life Insurance was considerably less than I'd thought it was going to be, so I may have to refinance or do a home equity loan to get the debts paid. We'll see.
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Aug 9, 2015 06:42
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Maybe this will encourage miserable fuckers to keep the gently caress out of where they don't belong.  On a potentially interesting note, I found a phone in the house that I didn't recognize and didn't belong to any of my friends. Good chance it's just a burner, but I turned it in to the police just in case they can find something useful on it.
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Aug 10, 2015 03:41
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I can post pictures later, but I got the guest room mostly done (need to figure out how to remove some shelves in one of the closets to finish removing wallpaper in there), and I've started in on the bathroom. The contractor I was going to use to pull up the flooring in the kitchen is apparently booked for another loving month because his previous commitment can't stick with a loving plan, so I'm trying to decide if I should just find someone else. People have claimed and actually picked up a good portion of the furniture, so I'm getting down to the smaller stuff that's going to be easier to get rid of. MY GIRLFRIEND is working on texturing tests so she can find the "look" she's wanting. Looks like I need to buy a texture gun. I'll probably pick up another paint sprayer too.
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Aug 13, 2015 20:40
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Got some things done yesterday: Got the shelves removed finally from the other closet in the guest room, and wallpaper is mostly removed.  loving wallpaper on the ceiling, man.   One of the sheds is cleaned and organized. The sewing room got cleaned out, cabinetry removed, loving wood paneling removed, and the carpet pulled up.  Before.  After.  Found this while removing paneling, looks like another case of the "gently caress its". I'll just need to do a bunch of patching, I guess. Also got most of the exterior pressure-washed to prep for painting in a few weeks, but it's not really all that exciting to look at so I didn't take any pictures. Oh, and my friend decided to do this to himself while he was at my place:   He managed to roll his ankle walking down a step and broke it. Having to take a friend to Urgent Care and find out he's going to need orthopedic surgery wasn't exactly the best end to my day. I'll finish pressure washing the rear tonight once I get home (couldn't finish yesterday due to the above), and then I'll finish that closet ceiling crap in the guest room, then I'll be on to working on the bathroom.
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Aug 24, 2015 21:30
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It's time for another episode of "WTF?". I am your host, MikeyTsi. This weekend's work started out well (except for starting late on Saturday because I wasn't feeling well, and spending way too much time driving around getting supplies). I acquired a power painter and started painting a section of the house to see how the color scheme is going to work:  Started with this to basically test out how the sprayer works. I ultimately decided to spray the whole section so I could get a good look (and give the neighbors a chance to  Well, it's certainly going to be distinctive.  This spider had a few pretty bad days but is looking FABULOUS.  Started painting the library. Needs another coat but it's looking good. With that, I decided I wanted to pull up some of the linoleum in the kitchen so I can get an idea of how big a job that's going to be to get to the hardwood.  Pulled up some. Not too bad, it's 2'x4' pressboard with a bunch of nails. It's going to be a pain in the rear end to take up (I have to work from the edge and break the pressboard up and then remove the nails), but it should be doable.  Wait, what's this?  SONOVABITCH. What is it with these fuckers and multiple layers of poo poo? Well, I'll just pull that up and get to the hardwood, it's just more work,....  ...... gently caress. I may just try to get someone out to pull this up, it's going to be an enormous pain in the rear end to try to do myself since I'd basically have to pull up the floor twice and I just have hand tools to try to do it with. Once I have the floor up and see what everything looks like I'll decide if I want to try laying oak in here or just put down some linoleum.
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Sep 14, 2015 10:12
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Awesome. Any suggestions on an easy way to get the wood up? Right now I'm basically having to use a chisel to get in there and that's taking forever to slowly hammer in, then break small sections apart, then pull out the one or two nails that get exposed.
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Sep 14, 2015 19:53
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Well, that certainly makes the job easier: Thanks for the advice guys. It took me less time to remove an entire board as well as the entire section of linoleum than it did to do the work I last posted with two people. Getting the second layer started looks like it may be a pain, I might have to chip it with something smaller so I can get the tool between that layer and the wood. Once I have it all up I'll see what the kitchen looks like and decide if I'm going to go with wood or just put a new layer of linoleum down (I'd prefer wood).
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Sep 16, 2015 21:16
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 Welp, can't back out of having a purple house now. Painting commences this weekend. I gotta get the exterior done before Washington weather turns lovely for the next 9 months. I'm not going to be doing the outbuildings yet, that'll probably wait until spring. We're also hopefully going to finish painting the library, office, and guest room this weekend, and I'm renting a steam wallpaper stripper so Holly can try her hands at using that. All in all, should be a busy weekend.
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Sep 23, 2015 22:00
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Did some more work over the weekend: I spent most of Saturday pulling wiring off of the house, but I managed to get a little more painting done. On Sunday I ended up spending quality time doing this:  Started working diligently on the kitchen floor.  Found where the heating vent used to be.  Wait, what's this?  Great. That's just loving super. Looks like there was a major water spill that damaged the floor; I'm guessing the dishwasher blew or something. Rather than fix it properly, the cut a hole and removed the immediate damage (not fixing the layer below which appears to be nicely dry-rotted), stuffed some wood in there, then put on another layer of wood and a new layer of linoleum. So, the kitchen floor has: layer of white linoleum particle board layer of grey linoleum particle board particle board (looks like they at least removed the layer of linoleum above this) sub floor Which means I have to remove three loving floors to get down to where I need to be; and the cabinetry (which is custom so can't be replaced without significant cost) is set on top of the grey layer. Which means I'm going to have to basically saw around the cabinetry, take up the two layers of flooring, then probably chisel out the part that's under the "lip" so I can get things flush with the edges before I can lay down new floor. Which makes it really unlikely that I'll get it done before I need to move in at the end of the month. So for now, I need to focus on getting the rooms that have hardwood (living room, office, guest room, library) finished, and get everything totally cleared out of those rooms so I can tear up the particle board flooring in the library and lay hardwood there, then get all of the wood surfaces repaired, sanded, and finished. But hey, let's show some pictures of the other things that were accomplished over the weekend.  Library is painted.  Office is mostly painted, just need to do a little more sanding to clean up the edges of the mudding we did to clean up the poor construction decisions made by prior owners before finishing.  This is the accent wall for the guest room, which is painted. Designs and stuff will be painted on this wall in the color of the other three walls (the cream/white)  Closet on the right is painted. Closet on the left will be painted the red color (ran out of the cream and I don't want to pay $34 for another gallon to paint one closet). I should hopefully be able to get the rooms finished, then get the living room walls sanded and repainted by the end of this weekend, and get all the stuff cleared out and either moved to other rooms or thrown out. Then I can call out someone to do the floors for me and then move on to the sewing room and master bedroom (and start moving). I may end up living in the guest room for a few weeks/month to give a little more time to get the master bedroom to the point where I can move in to it.
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Oct 1, 2015 01:29
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Mr. Mambold posted:Old particle board is a health hazard as it gives off formaldehyde and other lovely stuff. You sure you can't gently detach the base cabinets once the counter tops are off? I mean, in a trainwreck house like this, how 'custom' can they be? Skipping that, you don't have to chisel under them, that's what 1/4 round is for. They aren't standard dimensions, they were built in-place by someone. The kitchen also doesn't use the standard dimensions that everyone uses now (1950's house, remember), so I'd have to have cabinetry built and installed, and that's more expensive that I want to deal with right now. There's a good 1-2 inch "lip" on the bottom of each cabinet that juts out from where the actual base is, it'll look really weird if I don't try to make that flush.
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Oct 2, 2015 22:32
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tater_salad posted:be careful of fiberous tilles if there are any in those layers.. a lot of square tiles had asbestos in them, if it's sheets of leolium then you're okay.. if it's tiles then you may want to either not touch it.. or do what you can to not get mesothelioma, which usually means calling a special abatement company. No tiles. Whatever the original layer (linoleum or tile, most likely linoleum given the other houses on the street) was it was removed before they put the board down for the grey layer of linoleum.
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Oct 2, 2015 22:34
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WHAT'S UNDER THE FLOOR? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYwNg0czSNM
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Oct 5, 2015 23:58
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Got some work done this weekend: Yup, that's a lot of paint.  Looks like this area was originally the pantry, when they reconfigured everything they just stuck a piece of wood between the joists then put board over it. Didn't even do any weather protection or anything.  Living room has a coat of paint. Looks like it'll need another for proper coverage.  Guest room is painted. Just need to pull up the pad and it's ready to refinish.  Front hallway is painted. I'll see if I can get a better picture, this looks a bit washed out.  Back hallway is painted. Need a better picture of this too, it's actually more of a grey.  MY GIRLFRIEND's step-father came by earlier today and pulled out the top two layers, for the most part. I'll need to chisel out the wood around the cabinets and then one more layer of wood needs to come out before I can do whatever I'm going to end up doing to floor the kitchen.  Here's a shot of that lip I was talking about. It's getting down to the wire here, I have about another week to get the floors finished before I need to start moving in, and I'm getting really tired of being dicked around by contractors and Holly's stepfather (he was claiming he was going to help all week, but this is the first day he actually loving showed up). I'm probably going to have to just go in to a flooring store and pay them and a contractor a bunch of money to get the drat floors done. I'm a bit pissed about that.
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Oct 9, 2015 08:34
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some texas redneck posted:I wouldn't focus on the kitchen flooring until after you've moved in. There's not going to be any additional furniture added to the kitchen (or if there is, it'll be a breakfast table, but being a 50s house, it probably doesn't have the space for that), so you can do whatever you want whether you're moved in or not. It'll take a lot of stress off of you this way. Yeah, that was sort of MY point, but that's what he decided to do to "help" (pulling up the floor in the library, the pad in the guest room, hell, ANYTHING would've been more useful).
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Oct 13, 2015 20:01
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I JUST WANT SOMEONE TO COME LAY SOME FLOORING, THEN SAND AND FINISH. IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK?
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Oct 13, 2015 20:03
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Found someone that's going to do all the flooring stuff I want for around $5000. Negative is that he won't be able to get everything finished until mid-November. MY GIRLFRIEND's step-father is collecting furniture to get it out of the house, and I've got another contractor that's going to be doing off-and-on work to: Install doors for the sewing room and master bath. Mud the walls in the sewing room so we can actually paint. Finish removing the flooring in the kitchen so I can start laying tile. Once the wall is mudded properly, we'll get the walls painted so we can get the cabinetry put back in and get the carpet installed. Then get the Master Bedroom painted and get the carpet replaced. Also need to do some touch-up painting in the living room and back hallway so we have good coverage. Still need to get the exterior painted, but I'll do that piecemeal as weather allows. And I still need to get someone out to get the hot tub fixed, cleaned, and filled. I'm pretty seriously thinking about pulling out the secondary water heater ASAP and replacing it with a tankless unit. Should save quite a bit on electricity.
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Oct 17, 2015 02:01
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Tigntink posted:I have an electric tankless in what i'm guessing is the same region as you - judging by the trees. Best decision we ever made and it saved 10% on our electricity bills. But it also looks like you have gas available so gas tankless all the way. One of the water tanks is gas, the other is electric. That's right, two loving water heaters. One of which serves everything EXCEPT the master bathroom, and one for just the master bathroom. And the one that's just for the master bath is a full-size, and electric.
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Oct 20, 2015 09:50
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thegoat posted:How many lawnmowers do you have? Just the ones that run, or in total?
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Oct 20, 2015 20:56
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I haven't even STARTED with the tiles yet. That's actually probably going to be easy, comparatively speaking.
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Oct 20, 2015 22:47
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kizudarake posted:...that's loving baller. Did I mention the hot tub? All in all, the place is going to make a pretty nice party house once I'm "done".
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Oct 20, 2015 22:48
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"Sweat Equity" FTW. Also, not paying someone else's mortgage, and at least some of the money I'm paying ends up staying mine (the principal part). And houses are generally an appreciating asset, as opposed to pretty much any other physical asset. And you get tax breaks. Also, I'm immediately saving $500/mo. by having this house instead of the place I'm renting. If I were to save a good portion of that that gives me a LOT of money each year to make cool improvements.
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Oct 22, 2015 01:00
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:Go into a quiet room and listen carefully. Hear that sucking sound? That's the sound of a transdimensional wormhole that was created when you assumed ownership. It starts in your wallet and transcends time and space to suck money out and transfer it directly to the bank accounts of nearby hardware stores. It will never stop. It's like a boat, except this is an asset that will appreciate instead of depreciating forever.
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Oct 22, 2015 01:00
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SneakyFrog posted:heh you said done. Tigntink posted:When you get to it in like 5 years. Hot Tub is part of THIS STAGE of "done". This work is to make it "livable", and I'll probably do a major project each year with minor projects scattered around those.
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Oct 22, 2015 01:05
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:Yeah, I used to work with some boat owners, and they always said that the boat was like a hole in the water that you toss money into and watch it disappear. Yeah, pretty much every boat owner says that. Also: "The two best days of a boat owner's life are when they buy the boat, and when they sell the boat".
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Oct 22, 2015 01:34
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Welp. The contractor neglected to inform me that the floor needs to be at "65-70" in order to work on it; I'd disconnected the thermostat to paint and hadn't bothered to hook it back up yet because no one is occupying the house. He said it would take a week to get up to temp and that's going to totally gently caress the schedule to get the floors done. So I have to figure out if I want to pay yet ANOTHER month for rent for two places (through December), or if I want to basically live in 1/3 of the house for about a month while the floors are being done. And I got laid-off from my job on Monday, so I get to stress about finding another job. Rad.
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Definitely thinking about it. I'm at an experience level where it's usually not too difficult for me to find work though.
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