Dunny Posted March 3, 2020 Share Posted March 3, 2020 closed on my first house early february and am learning how quickly redoing a bathroom can turn into a money pit. eventually having to redo a kitchen is gonna be a shitshow too Congrats! It sucks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vodka Drunkenski Posted March 3, 2020 Share Posted March 3, 2020 closed on my first house early february and am learning how quickly redoing a bathroom can turn into a money pit. eventually having to redo a kitchen is gonna be a shitshow too I redid my kitchen myself and it cost me 16k on material alone, that includes appliances Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vodka Drunkenski Posted March 3, 2020 Share Posted March 3, 2020 I want to redo my first floor bathroom, as most of my friends are extremely well versed in home remodeling and general contracting. The problem is, I?m not. The problem doing it yourself is time. My basement has been a 2+ year project, I had one contractor come Saturday for an estimate to finish it off and another coming tonight. I just can?t deal with it anymore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlairBettsBlocksEverything Posted March 3, 2020 Share Posted March 3, 2020 Congrats! It sucks! oh yeah. the bathroom was just such a weird layout. like, the back wall was a tub without a shower head, wall, then standing shower on the other end. then coming out of the wall between the tub and shower, there was a little half wall made of tile that looped around a toiled that was directly next to the tub. so weird. so moving where the toilet is is a bit of a plumbing issue but we're almost done. I'm also very much not handy so its gettin a bit costly but not terrible. uncovering more costs that we didn't anticipate but I think we'll be about 10k in the hole including tub, new toilet, vanity and all that jazz kitchen is weird. like, everything is straight out of the 60s, but it was all top of the line so it all still works. just kind of ugly but decent enough for now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vodka Drunkenski Posted March 3, 2020 Share Posted March 3, 2020 oh yeah. the bathroom was just such a weird layout. like, the back wall was a tub without a shower head, wall, then standing shower on the other end. then coming out of the wall between the tub and shower, there was a little half wall made of tile that looped around a toiled that was directly next to the tub. so weird. so moving where the toilet is is a bit of a plumbing issue but we're almost done. I'm also very much not handy so its gettin a bit costly but not terrible. uncovering more costs that we didn't anticipate but I think we'll be about 10k in the hole including tub, new toilet, vanity and all that jazz kitchen is weird. like, everything is straight out of the 60s, but it was all top of the line so it all still works. just kind of ugly but decent enough for now. 10K for a bathroom remodel is standard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlairBettsBlocksEverything Posted March 3, 2020 Share Posted March 3, 2020 yeah might actually end up being closer to 12 but initial estimate had us coming to around 8-9. turns out there was a lot of stuff that needed to be done under the surface. like, there wasn't a subfloor under the tub and now we're hearing the vent stack for the plumbing is rotted away that was the last bit of work to do before we move in since that was the only full bathroom (1.5 bathrooms in the house) over some years it'll take more work but overall we're very happy. and it's not a typical starter home that a lot of first time home buyers end up with. It's a 3 bedroom, about 2.1k square foot place on a nice street that ended up getting appraised for a good chunk more than we paid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Worle Ranger Posted March 3, 2020 Share Posted March 3, 2020 Just got a builder to build an extension over my garage to give us a large 4th bedroom. I?m pleased it?s finally done and it adds more value to the house. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albatrosss Posted March 3, 2020 Share Posted March 3, 2020 I have a huge back yard and i dont know what to do with it. Kids dont want a pool, wife doesn’t care either way. Need ideas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morphinity 2.0 Posted March 3, 2020 Share Posted March 3, 2020 Horseshoe pit Putting green Gun/archery range Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abe Froman Posted March 3, 2020 Share Posted March 3, 2020 Amazon drone helipad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albatrosss Posted March 3, 2020 Share Posted March 3, 2020 Horseshoe pit Putting green Gun/archery range Have those. Still have half an acre left Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albatrosss Posted March 3, 2020 Share Posted March 3, 2020 Amazon drone helipad. My neighbor has one. Wife uses his Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaveByRichter35 Posted March 5, 2020 Share Posted March 5, 2020 I dread that exact post. We've been in this house 2 years. I know the roof ain't far off, and the furnace is probably sooner. We are lucking out with this, kind of. We are having a few more solar panels added to our current array. The rebates from the install are going to cover the cost of the new roof. Best part of this is it is all going to be rolled into one payment. I wish we were able to have it tied into our existing solar payment(which is tied into our PSEG bill) but they weren't able to do that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaveByRichter35 Posted March 5, 2020 Share Posted March 5, 2020 I have a huge back yard and i dont know what to do with it. Kids dont want a pool, wife doesn’t care either way. Need ideas Hockey rink Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keirik Posted March 5, 2020 Share Posted March 5, 2020 I have a huge back yard and i dont know what to do with it. Kids dont want a pool, wife doesn’t care either way. Need ideas Hot tub serenity area for those Serenity now type days lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albatrosss Posted March 5, 2020 Share Posted March 5, 2020 Hockey rink too costly to maintain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albatrosss Posted March 5, 2020 Share Posted March 5, 2020 Hot tub serenity area for those Serenity now type days lol and a huge fire pit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keirik Posted March 5, 2020 Share Posted March 5, 2020 We have a little less than an acre here on LI and are like a year or two away from redoing the whole backyard/side yard. No clue what we are doing lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niko Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 Also, I don't know if anything was answered before the other thread was deleted but we did end up going with the CAC unit over the ductless. It's so nice now. You has an issue with ductless? I was going to go ductless because I didn?t want to do all of the work on my house and lose my half attic to accommodate the equipment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaveByRichter35 Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 You has an issue with ductless? I was going to go ductless because I didn’t want to do all of the work on my house and lose my half attic to accommodate the equipment. No we didn't have issues with ductless. We were just able to get a really good deal on the CAC system vs the ductless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niko Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 Anybody you’d recommend in Nassau? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaveByRichter35 Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 I’m actually going to have an HVAC guy come in and give me his thoughts. He’s a close friends brother, so I trust he won’t bang me. You guys have any tips for wet sanding? I just had a new window and door installed, plus they fixed some water damage in my ceiling. They did a pretty good job on the drywall and spackle, I just have to sand it before I repaint. I figured wet sanding was better than traditional sanding with one of those sanding blocks hay connects to a vacuum cleaner to collect the dust. Thoughts? What ever happen with this? I went back to where you quoted me from a few years ago and did a little re-reading but didn't go much farther. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niko Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 What ever happen with this? I went back to where you quoted me from a few years ago and did a little re-reading but didn't go much farther. He took a job with northwell as the guy that oversees their HVAC system and has no time for peasants like me. I reached out, he said we’d talk at another time. I reached out a few months later and he never got back to me, lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaveByRichter35 Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 He took a job with northwell as the guy that oversees their HVAC system and has no time for peasants like me. I reached out, he said we’d talk at another time. I reached out a few months later and he never got back to me, lol. Ah man. I can ask my neighbor but I don't know if he goes out to Nassau. One of the guys on my hockey team also does HVAC, I'll ask him as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaveByRichter35 Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 Me Yo does your company work in Nassau too or just out east? Hockey buddy Sorry man just saw this. Don't have service out here. I'm pretty sure we would go out to Nassau but most of our work is out east. Me Got a dude in Wantagh looking for an estimate Him Honestly fuck my company my boss over charges and hes a pos lol. He treats us like ass and hes a cheap fuck lol I will ask my neighbor, Niko lol 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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