Home Buyin/Maintenance Thread - Where most of us are 30ish but act 47. Oh, and fuck home inspectors

Order of operations question....

Our basement has old tile on it and we are planning to lay carpet over it. I want to replace the trim. Planning to paint, then do you lay the trim down before the carpet or wait till the carpet is down and then install the trim? I’ve read that you can put the trim on but leave a half inch or so for the carpet tack board, but “it may depend on the carpet installer’s preference.”

Any ideas?

 

Trim is always the last thing you put down. You make things harder on yourself otherwise.

 

I've never in my life seen trim go down after carpet in residential construction

All ive ever seen was cabinets, trim, paint flooring in that order (again, in residential, commercial is different)

 

That feeling when the city hauls away alllll of the tree/shrub/brush trimmings off your curb, week after week.

 

I’ve done countless flooring jobs and trim is always the last thing I do.

 

Ceramic tile maybe, but all tile guys carry floor trim saws
Snap together wood yes, it would be easier to trim after
Vct/vinyl yes easier to trim after
But I can't even imagine how you make base boards look good trying to put them on top of carpet

I guess if you are doing all the work yourself, you can do it however you want
But in the standard construction world flooring comes last

I mean, how do you paint trim up against carpet efficiently at all?

 

If you have the option why would you ever put trim down before what ever flooring material? Can't think of any reasonable reason to.

 

Didn't think about painting, that would be much easier to do before the carpet is down.

 

Does anyone have a bathroom style vent in their laundry room? Our laundry room has a musky smell from time to time, wet clothes, sports clothes, washing machine mildew, whatever it may be - it'd be nice to have a vent with a timer switch in there but I'm not sure if I've ever actually seen one.

 

Wife went to Home Depot this morning and priced out some carpet, and the associate said that we can put the trim down before the carpet. I am replacing all the trim and getting it painted white, so I was going to paint the entire room, install the white trim, and then have it carpeted. I think.

 

It’s easier to cut in the carpet if the trim is already installed.

 

I always feel like a kid waiting on the ice cream truck when I’ve got a pile of debris on the curb and it’s “big trash haul away” day for my neighborhood

 

You paint the trim before installing it. Pretty easy.

 

Nothing crazy here and doesn’t look professionally done but my first from scratch project that wasn’t prepackaged pieces. I’m proud.

We bought the house October 18 so getting rid of this has been on the list from the start.

 

You see, in whole home construction the painter is a different guy than the trim guy, and the floor installer is yet again another guy
And aint none of them coming back twice

 

I am with bigred77, if you need to paint the trim, why not do it before the carpet is down? If you lay carpet and then have to paint the trim, you have to tape everything up and cover all the brand new carpet. Carpet was the last thing we laid.

 

How about don't put in carpet?

 

Kids playroom. No carpet ain’t going to fly.

 

Bruised knees>>>rug burn

 

Hope you got grape juice colored carpet.......

 

Some gems in here.

 

Anyone know much about Third Federal for mortgages? They advertise great rates but some reviews make it sound like they're more interested in getting your info and selling it than they are actually getting you qualified. Trying to shop some legitimate rates to see if we can negotiate with our builders.

 

The biobidet 2000 has been installed and boy is my butthole clean

 

Prove it

 

Trim and painting definitely happened before our carpet was laid. That was the last thing done on our remodel.

 

My back yard has a retaining wall in one spot, there’s one area they gets standing water anytime it rains/snows. Is it possible to add some kind of make shift drainage in that despite it obviously already being built.

 

What about filling in the area so it drains to the rest of the yard?

 

Anything is possible with enough time and money.

 

Post a pic so we can brainstorm a little better

 

As stated in my previous post there’s standing water due to the possible inch per hour rain we’re receiving lol so I’ll get out there tomorrow and post a pic.

 

So I have a weird little setup. My back yard has a slab of cement for a basketball hoop (assume the previous people had kids or whatever), so it seems the issue is the water runs off the cement to the “top” of the retaining wall where water builds up. That part is currently dirt/mulch. I would guess if I built that up with dirt, the water would just settle on my cement until washing it back out over time.

 

What material is the retaining wall? Solution seems to be a French drain along that and a drain/out spout in the retaining wall

 

That was kind of what I was thinking, I guess I just wasn’t sure how “easy” it is to get the drain through the wall itself. It’s basically just like cement “blocks”

 

You can punch through with a hammer drill and insert a small portion of pvc or other drain and then mortar around it. I had a retaining wall repaired a few years ago and they French drained the front/top part and installed the out drains and it’s amazing how much water runs out in a heavy rain

 

If the wall is small, put a cricket in front IMO

 

Under contract, on a 84 year old historic home. Completely renovated in the last 3-4 years, but sign me up for all the maintenance

 

Hoping the electrical work was updated.

 

Everything updated. Only major maintenance in 5-10 years should be upstairs a/c, that was new in 2009

 

we just did one here for the house. hammer drill and a hole saw to cut through the curb. That was the easiest part. Trenching was a bitch though.

 

I installed a French drain and 3 foot deep 50 foot long trench to run some under ground drainage myself. Just me and a pick axe. It took a few weekends and sucked but my ass and forearms have still never looked better.

 

I love old homes. Congrats

 

Photo dump: Really excited about this place. Even comes with the architectural plans... fortunately I know a guy & got an insane rate too

Spoiler

 

That bar is sexy as fuck

 

You mean my home office/bar?

 

This sounds like a dangerous combination

 

Love the bar. I feel like I’d fall off of those sloped stools after a drink or two though.

 

Also known as survival, in the mortgage biz

 

Im in love