No gas in the house. Electric water heater and stove. And I think that cover is a purgola, not a full cover.
Yeah I know but I was talking about the rest of the set up with BGE and fire. Florida you'd want a cover because of the rain IMO.
No. I don't at all. One of my favorite things to do now is to sit outside near the pool and just listen to the pool pump. I actually am in my backyard more now than I was when I just had grass. Less to mow, mostly easier to maintain. I love it. I would rarely use a spa in the summer and am not a huge spa fan so it really didn't matter to me. Plus it costs a fortune to heat it up when it's cold outside.
I got a mini drink fridge for my garage- that is one of the most important home improvements I've made (had one a while back but it broke and I tried to live without it.
Wait, are we blaming the Mexican painters or your wife for the color? I'm down for either, but just want to make sure we're all on the same page for this one.
My parents put a pool and spa in our backyard when I was about 14 or so. Should have used it more than I did, but we used our back yard a hell of a lot more with the pool than without it. It helped to live near a park and we didn't have dogs or anything, but we just didn't need the green space like we did when my sister and I were younger. I remember my mom hardly ever used the spa, but my dad used the shit out of it. Probably in part because he has psoriatic arthritis, but he used it a lot after a day of working outside/around the house. As an adult, I'd use a spa in all seasons if I had one, too. Tough to beat relaxing in a spa in the evening with your alcoholic drink of your choice, listening to music or watching sports on an outdoor TV. We don't have a pool in our current house and have no intention of putting one in due to: 1) cost in relation to the number of years we intend to stay in this house, and 2) it would take up too much yard space for our dogs, but our next house in will either have a pool and spa, or we'll buy one with a sufficiently large yard and will put both in immediately. And I don't care about getting my money back on the investment, or whatever. I'd be doing it for me and my family, not for resale value 10, 20, or more years down the line.
I want to put the nest in our house but consumer reports has the Honeywell thermostat rated much higher. The nest was a 69 rating, honeywell a 95. Anyone have any experience with the honeywell unit? EDIT: Just found this article: http://www.slashgear.com/nest-vs-honeywell-lyric-smart-thermostat-showdown-10332820/
I turned off the smart nest features because it loved to go away while we were home- I think as long as it's connected to WiFi, and you can control it from your phone you are good Yeah reading that article- I'd go honeywell. Our thermostat is in a hall on the other side of the house, so we just don't go near it often and I had to turn off those features
All of the above, only not a wife. It was one of my friends selections who is known for being an awesome decorator. Her house is gorgeous, and she picked the color, and she picked a toupe which turned out fucking pink. The Mexican issue is the paint wasn't primed right and now is peeling, so i think I am going to have to have it redone.
Sounds like a room you constantly change every 3-5 years hoping for something awesome but quickly become disappointed. Really though I thinks it's more of an attached sun room to a home with lots of windows for natural light.
Basically a room on the back of the house that's all windows. Enclosed with windows = Florida room. Enclosed with screens = lanai
I've always had it the opposite. Enclosed with windows = Florida room/sun room. Enclosed with screens = lanai.
A sunroom (also solarium, garden room, and other variations) is a structure, either attached or integrated into a building such as a home, restaurant, or office, which allows enjoyment of the surrounding landscape while being sheltered from adverse weather. Also known as a sun parlor, sun porch, sun lounge, patio room, Florida room, garden conservatory, or Wintergarden,[1] such rooms are popular in the United States, Europe, Canada,[2] Australia, and New Zealand. In Great Britain, with its long history of formal conservatories, small scale "sunrooms" are also sometimes known by that term. Sunrooms are used in passive solar building design as a technique for heating and lighting structures.[3][4] A sunroom may be a room in a building specifically tailored to that function (with many windows and appropriate climate control), a connected structure erected during new construction, or one added some time afterwards. Attached sunrooms are typically constructed of transparent tempered glazing atop a brick or wood "knee wall", or framed entirely of wood, aluminum, or PVC and glazed on all sides. For privacy, frosted glass or breeze block is used. Some sunrooms are designed to exploit a scenic view, others to collect sunlight for warmth and light.[5] These, composed entirely of framed glass and usually called solariums, are typically found in high latitude (low sun angle) or cold (high altitude) locations. During the 1960s, professional re-modelling companies developed affordable systems to enclose a patio or deck, offering design, installation, and full service warranties. Patio rooms featured lightweight, engineered roof panels, single pane glass, and aluminium construction.[6] As technology advanced, insulated glass, vinyl and vinyl-wood composite framework appeared. More recently, specialized blinds and curtains were developed, many electrically powered and operated by remote control. Specialized floorings, including radiant heat, have also been adapted to both attached and integrated sunrooms.
well I'm from Alabama so wtf would I know about a Florida room. I call it a Florida room (aka bird cage) cause you don't see them till you get to south Florida.
My sister is in the process of closing on a house and just got the inspection results back. Only "some" (which makes me think it's leaked before) PB plumbing, and a FPE stab-lok breaker box are the 2 biggies. How fucked is this house?
That there are any biggies would be a sign they're fucked. What's the rest? A few slight electrical engineering workarounds? Some minor rotted faschia?
Guys I came home to my entire main floor being down to the decking yesterday. I forgot how much I hate remodeling.
How long is the remodel expected to take? They estimated our main floor, if we do it, would be 10 weeks. 2.5 months seems like a long time to be without my kitchen.
Total remodel time is 3 weeks of work, but I have a week gap between when they get the floors down and then can come in and sand and stain them so almost a month with no functional downstairs. This is just to redo the floors, update the fireplace and remove two small walls, so not a huge reno, but it's about 1000 sqft of solid hardwood flooring getting put in.
I've owned my home for now just a month and the money continues to pour out, but we expected some of it. Expected: - Paint exterior - Replace 1940s carriage garage doors with modern roll-ups - Furniture for a lot of rooms (came from a 1BR apt) Unexpected: - Driveway can't be repatched, must be completely replaced - Replace wood gutters - Electrician for new garage doors - Buying basement furniture (couch wouldn't fit down stairs) Fun: - Setting up a nice grill station with a Kamado Joe That being said, I prefer owning a home a hell of a lot more than I did renting.
Ditto for me. Had the house about a month, spending a shit ton of money along the way. Ive only thought about burning it down 4-5 times out of frustration with several projects
I've never felt as poor as when we moved in to our house last spring. We moved from a downtown condo to a house in the burbs so our sq footage tripled. Between the two mortgages, the rooms to update, furniture to buy (we also ran in to the issue of our couches not fitting down the stairs), outdoor equipment (mower, snowblower, garden/yard tools, etc) and also finishing up work on our condo (new carpet, fresh paint) to get it ready to sell. Oh yeah, and my wife was pregnant with our first so we had to add stuff like crib, rocking chair, dresser/changing station, monitor... all the time.
The frustration is getting to me. I had two weeks before I had to be out of my rental and I was hoping to be in a good spot before moving stuff this weekend. But I had unrealistic expectations. I was going to paint myself last weekend but ended up having to officiate a tennis tournament all weekend. So I paid a buddy to paint instead. Of course that cost more than I made oh the tennis tournament. But i guess I had more fun doing that than painting. I have never been accuses of being 'handy' but I have discovered in pretty great at laying laminate hardwood flooring. It's just a slower process than I imagined. but I'm so glad I got the painting done. Makes the condo look so much nicer and makes me feel more relaxed about the other undone projects.
One project/room at a time and push things off until needed. A table to eat at and a BGE were the first major purchases. The condo sold the first weekend it was on the market (mid-June) but the engaged couple broke up and cancelled the transaction so we didn't get the equity I had in the condo until Labor Day. Consequently, the nursery got painted in July but it didn't get furniture until October (due date Nov. 1). He slept in a bassinet in our room for the first few months so it wouldn't have really mattered anyway. Our basement didn't get furnished until this April, our front sitting room is still empty and the couches we planned to put in the basement but didn't fit are still sitting in our family room and we just haven't upgraded this furniture yet.
You're obsessive. We moved in 6 years ago and still haven't done as much as we want to on a single floor, let alone consider the basement at this point. Just painting and putting in flooring was enough to get started, and that was a PITA without furniture in. I remember that it took us another 2 years to get furniture replaced from our condo. It looked ridiculous, but we were in no special hurry.
All we've really done is painting 2 bedrooms (nursery and a second bedroom that had pink walls) and furnished the dining room, nursery and dining room. We are talking to someone that started as interior design thoughts and some tweaks to rooms and has turned in them trying to remodel our whole house. Who knows where that goes. Right now they want to do almost as much work as our house cost so I don't see that happening.
That seems reasonable but it all depends on how much you're going to need to do. We had like $1000-2000 after closing but I had access to a $25k HELOC on our old condo so I tapped that when we did some repairs over there.
When we close on our home next spring, I'm planning on having $25k leftover. Of that, I'll put $10k in the emergency fund. I kinda take the Dave Ramsey approach to the extreme with the emergency fund.
Probably, but I like having 6 months of expenses. Ridiculous, but definitely feel more secure when you have that cushion. Even more ridiculous when you have a disability plan in place as well, but whatever.
It is something you can build to. Access to money, aka liquidity, from things like a HELOC, work just as well in the short-term.
For most people and Ramsey it's a $1k. majority of nation lives almost paycheck to paycheck and struggles to save.
$1k is just the minimum emergency fund for Ramsey, one of the earlier steps in his program is to get 3-6 months of expenses
I have been in my house for a year now and I have: -demoed two bathrooms -Laid 1300 square feet of hard wood -redone the laundry room(tile and hanging cabinets) -refinished the kitchen cabinets(painted them all white), added hardware -added a butler pantry to kitchen -replaced every light switch and outlet from almond to white -wired several new outdoor lights -wired 30 recessed lights -scraped close to 2000 square feet of popcorn ceiling -installed two new A/C units with replacing tons of duct work and flex -put all new insulation in attic -painted entire interior of house(that is walls and new trim) -total backyard renovation(retaining walls, bobcat for grading, built a shed, etc.) literally a million other little things and not so little things We knew we would have to do most of this but it has been very overwhelming at times. Still have a lot to do but the end is in sight for at least the big projects. Good news is bought my house for low $200,000's and probably have about $250,000 in it with all the projects and could sell it tomorrow for mid $300,000's.
How awful is this? We have some "textured" ceiling in our hallway upstairs and our bedroom that needs to be smoothed out. We'll have to get it tested first to see if there is lead paint, but otherwise it just needs to look updated at some point.
I don't know shit about Shark, but Dyson is impossible to get repaired or find parts for it. They use their own proprietary screw heads so it's torture trying to do the simplest thing to one of their machines, like when a string gets caught in the rotor or some bullshit like that.
closed on a monday and did not go into my house until friday when 1800 sf of popcorn was removed and repainted