I don't even want to know what it'd cost with today's lumber pricing. I know it has come down some but yeah that's a lot of deck.
Yeah that’s what I was trying to tell her. It’s not gonna be cheap. I can probably do it myself for half the price.
I put a 20x22 single story deck on my old house and I'm pretty sure I spent 3.5-4k in materials, and this was 2016 pricing.
Yeah I’m not expecting it to be cheap. Probably gonna end up doing it myself and just buying some materials every paycheck and try to get it done over the next couple of months.
Just called my loan person to do a refi, she said i'm looking at 2points difference just on rough guess. Got in when 4.875 was a damn good rate, may go to a 15year and have a cheaper payment.
Currently in the middle of a refi. Also about to mix up some grout for patching in the kitchen where the dogs have dug out the grout with their claws over the years. Local tile guy I work out with says that sometimes if the tilers whip the grout too frothy it gets too much air in it and gets powdery after setting, which would make it more susceptible to dog claws. He also told me not to worry about trying to match the grout color too much because in a high traffic area it'll all look dirty pretty quickly anyway
In 2005 we replaced a back deck and made a new front deck, probably a little over 500 sqft total. Went with Ipe instead of heart redwood or composite. One of the best decisions we ever made. Significantly more expensive, but almost maintenance-free and no splinters. Probably around $20k total
New or existing unit? Square footage? Room types? Sun load of room? Climate zone? There are a lot of variables to consider when sizing. We use 500sqft per ton when calculating forced air AC.
Had we been staying long term we would have done similar. Now that we're in our "forever home" we'll probably go stamped concrete.
Make the return air size larger than the supply. The fan coils push air way easier than pull it. 12”-14” round return with 10” supply. Will the crawl space ever freeze? There will be condensate to drain and that drain will always have water in it.
Yeah that’s why I said I could do it myself for half the price if the estimate would be $10k for someone to do it.
I had one built this summer, right before prices jumped up. 16x21 covered with 2 fans and 6 lights. Final was about $19K.
I got a quote a couple weeks back of about the same size but no electrical at all. $56k. Not a single piece of cedar in the bid either. I passed on the wonderful opportunity.
Re: lumber prices Got a call and text from one of my outside salesmen yesterday (happens to be 84 lumber in this case). His words "We got a market report and need to talk about what we're doing here." I can't help but feel like this doesn't bode well. All local suppliers (besides Lowes/HD) had stopped selling treated materials to parties who don't have accounts. I'll try and update Monday if I get a chance to meet him.
Harry Twatter, That is almost identical to what I was going for, only difference is I wanted solid material on the pony wall (he quoted the “cheapest” material possible and bug screen on the top. That looks great. Wish I could find the equivalent contractor in DFW.
Also our house construction was delayed again we are now down 5+ months, will officially take over a year to build sighs
Thanks. I'm in north carolina so we don't get under freezing all that often and usually that's just upper 20's. Have all my water lines down there and have never had a problem with those.
good thing we are in no rush, but now it looks like closing will interfere with our nieces baptism not good
Waiting forever on your house to be built blows. I will say, in our case it gave us time to come up with ideas we wouldn't have if the house would have gone up in 6 months. So there's the positive.
Yea that's true, its helped that everything is delayed. So this building delay has helped us get ahead on appliances and furniture which would've never worked out if we met the original build schedule The waiting is just the hardest part, I'm so tired of it. The worst part is every update we get from the builder includes added days until the project is finished. This week's delay we were told]was that its cold out. I about threw my phone at the wall. Its Ohio, I'm literally in construction here the cold doesn't slow anything down.
Which trade is delayed due to cold? They're bricking a house by me under a tarp and they have heaters going. There are solutions to building in the winter.
that’s the part that’s funny, the builder didn’t give a trade or anything- just delayed due to cold I asked for clarification and of course no response. nothing gets delayed in residential construction cuz of weather, the house is up, framed, siding on, roof on etc
Big 10 country going soft apparently. Ain’t winning no ‘ships anytime soon with your builder’s mentality!
Yeah that's annoying. Frankly I wish they would delay due to cold, then they wouldn't be here waking my kids up early on the weekend. We have one house getting bricked, one getting framed, one getting a roof, and one getting drywalled on our cul-de-sac right now.
I’m newly in the building process, but my builder set a date of 135 days after dig starts. The way they say it makes it sound guaranteed. Would suck to deal with delays. We are trying to line it up with having the new house a few weeks before my wife’s due date. A delay would really suck.
imo yes, I’m starting to get asked what materials can be substituted. Which is a huge pain in the ass design wise. Going to have to spend some time today or tomorrow doing a little research on alternate materials.
From the start of the dig that's not too bad from a bigger builder. Our 3900 sqft house took about that long once the hole was dug, but they're building all over the neighborhood so there's progress every day since the contractors are essentially assigned to the neighborhood, to the point of occasionally having multiple trades in at once. Not all situations are this cut and dry though.
Went to our land and went to meet the neighbours. Got horror stories about the builder. Law suits. Houses that can't be sold because they have never passed initial inspection. Fucking yikes. It's crazy because he's built almost every custom mountain home on the rock but apparently there are problems with most of them. Looking at other builders now. Thank God we went to meet the neighbours.
I bought a kitchen appliance suite from Home Depot in November, with delivery set for Jan 18 On Jan 14 they sent me an email confirming delivery and telling me how to prep for delivery and all that on Jan 15 they emailed me saying delivery was delayed until March 4 my house has no appliances