homebuying fun (caution: stupidly wide .jpg)

[2mAn]

How much did that cost you?

We went for all the bells and whistles, especially since we don’t have a side door. It was a little over $500 installed. Electrical was free.99 since me and my friend did it. Door was already installed but one of the coils needed to be replaced

[Kershaw]

Garage door motor professionally installed, pictures begun being hung and car on jackstands. I officially have my garage lol

How much did that cost you?

[tim88325is]

Bonaseal makes awesome industrial quality waterborne finishes that dry to touch within a few hours and have nearly zero fumes. Much more pleasant to work with and faster than solvent-based stuff.

https://www.bona.com/en-US/Bona-Professional/Products/Coatings/Waterborne-Finishes-and-Sealers/

[mbonder]

Decided on hardwood, nice...

[mrsleeve]

well here is about 1/2 of the latest project. About 500 Sq/ft of Wide plank Quarter Sawn white oak in that pile, and another one just about like it in the guest bedroom. Will start nailing it down in about a week or so. I still have a bit of trim to remove and some furniture to move out of the house. going to have to move out of the house for about a week or 10 days while we get it nailed down and sanded and finished
2019-01-18_03-36-50 by mrsleeve, on Flickr

[2mAn]

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Very nice!

I got my roof almost completely finished today, just have the ridge vent/caps to put on the garage and the bay window. Very pleased that say that I did about 60% percent of it solo, and got a bit of help from another r3v member too! Thanks Kershaw! Before/after pics follow.

Thanks! Quite an undertaking to re-roof a house. Congrats!

[roguetoaster]

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Very nice!

I got my roof almost completely finished today, just have the ridge vent/caps to put on the garage and the bay window. Very pleased that say that I did about 60% percent of it solo, and got a bit of help from another r3v member too! Thanks Kershaw! Before/after pics follow.

[2mAn]

Garage door motor professionally installed, pictures begun being hung and car on jackstands. I officially have my garage lol

[Schnitzer318is]

Are you trying to avoid laminate planks sleeve? We did our whole house in it (well, will have done the whole house, done about 1700sq/ft so far) and as long as you get a quality board at a decent thickness it's a nice finish. We used 12mm with attached pad and added another padded underlayment/moisture barrier. Not the MOST durable but it is fairly resilient. Ours has lasted well with the kids and 80lb dog. If you catch it on sale it can come in around 2.50 - 3.50/sqft including the underlayment.

Edit: Not sure of the house/market in question. Laminate fits the market in our area so as to not be a waste of money in the flooring with no recoup on the backend. $5+ /sqft would be way over doing it in our area for a 2300 sq/ft $160,000 house.

[george graves]

Oh yeah, home ownership is magnitudes more expensive

Home ownership is cheap. It's the "While you're you in there you might as well....." that gets you.


My living room is painted wallpaper, and behind that is lath and plaster. I can remove the wallpaper and hire a awesome plaster guy, or spend 2-3 weeks and a huge dumpster to drywall it myself.

Drywall is cheaper than a "white guy" that does plaster repair. Some "out of country laborers"(Mexicans that do an amazing job) do plaster for cheap - and they are better at it to be honest. Not a rasiasits post - just reality.

[mbonder]

Oh yeah, home ownership is magnitudes more expensive and I find there's always more than one thing broken at a time so the cost is always more than anticipated.

[MR E30 325is]

More to-dos as a result of some techs coming to a rental.

Need a new shower trim kit for an upstairs shower, along with an exhaust fan for the same bathroom. Of course the fan is an old tiny model, so drywall work will have to be done to fit a new unit.

Subzero fridge needs $1368 dollars worth of work to fix the refrigerant system for the refrigerator side. Freezer side is functioning, and tech said they are bulletproof, so no worries there.

Glass gas cook top with down draft unit has malfunctioning components that are no longer sold by the manufacturer. Tech recommended a replacement. The unit will be in the $2,000 range.

Busted irrigation pipe is leaking a lot of water underground in the front yard. Will have to track that down and seal it up before snow hits.

Phew. And to think that I used to think cars were expensive. This is nuts.

[mrsleeve]

Well let's see here in the 9 days I have been home, I have installed 3 new light fixtures in the house. The new kitchen light whipped my ass for 2 days as the j box had to be replaced so it could support some weight and moved. So had to patch and paint that old hole up 1st.

Fixed the p trap in the landury tub.

Installed hardware on every cabinet in the house both baths and the kitchen, like never was installed to begin with . So had to build a couple hole jigs 1st.

Been fighting with the wiring nightmare in the shop trying to get a couple new outside flood fixtures working right. Redid a couple outside outlets with new gfi,

Still have to hang mirrors, closet shelving and waiting on bids for crawl space vapor barrier and flooring and kitchen to come back

[MR E30 325is]

I've been a bit busy myself, though picture-less.

Installing security doors on my duplex.

Chasing down a faulty door switch in a SubZero (get over here!) fridge.

An upstairs furnace wouldn't fire up. Had to chase that down in the attic.

New more modern LED lights, with dimming switches, for bathrooms at another rental.

Water heater issues at another rental. Was a simple blown pilot light.

It's been fun. Learning a lot.

[TeXJ]

No pictures...sorry

But Christmas Eve, my mom and sister came over to our house and would ya know it, the door handle decided to come apart.

It's one of those that have the dead bolt above it and then a handle that goes up and down and has a bolt that holds it on the bottom.

Anyway, so the latch part on the out side came apart. Looks like the screws came loose. Couldn't figure out how it went back together,

So I installed a new one last night...yay