Rant on a Hot Tin Roof

[SAT 9,609]

Nik it does not cost 50k to redo a kitchen. I can get an entire 1500 ft house gutted and renovated including kitchen and bath for 50k.

[NikLR 13,231]

32 minutes ago, SAT said:

Nik it does not cost 50k to redo a kitchen. I can get an entire 1500 ft house gutted and renovated including kitchen and bath for 50k.

It would cost 10-15k just to redo the wiring in this house.  It's all aluminum and would need to be replaced if we redid the kitchen.  Another few grand to fix the insulation issues and venting in the roof.   Considering I have to redo wiring, plumbing, rebuild a wall, put in a window, all new cabinets and flooring, take down a wall, and NONE of it would be done by my husband.  Pretty sure close to 40-50k even with the size of my kitchen.  You can't just do the kitchen you have to do both main floor rooms unless you don't bother remodeling everything.  Then yes I agree it would be closer to 10-20k.  

 

But I could refinance for 50k get all new siding, new windows, tier the back, put in a fence and dog run, resod it, and probably build a screened in porch and have left overs with 50k.  Maybe enough to redo a bathroom! Because my husband CAN do some of that work.   

[NikLR 13,231]

For example I found this.  Granted CA is expensive but CO isn't cheap.

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rewiring

Amount: $8,000.00 total

Posted by: frayed nerves in agoura hills, CA.

Posted: February 10th, 2012 01:02PM

I had my 1300sf house (built in the 70's with aluminum wiring) rewired along with my kitchen remodel. This included a new panel. New recessed lighting throughout. Garage and smoke detectors were done on a previous remodel. I also repiped at the same time for about 5000. Total cost of remodel was 32k.

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[TBoneTX 45,849]

11 hours ago, Dilorena said:

1.  I don't feel like working today

2.  I might not even put on pants?

1.  Plagiarizing Steveklar, D2 ma'am!  Reported!!!

2.  Fotos of panting, pantless D2 ma'am now, see D2 ma'am!

9 hours ago, N-o-l-a said:

Curse of a house with a ridiculous number of windows:  birds and bees bumping into them all day long.  Nothing gets you jumping like a hard thump on the window right behind you.

Paint stripes or something on them to protect the birdbrains, Nola-B. ma'am.

9 hours ago, cdneh said:

I was sitting out back with the dog last night, just at dusk. Heard a very loud humming buzzing sort of sound, right beside me. The Humming birds are back, and he landed right next to me. I hung out the feeder today.

My favourites

Hummm, Eh ma'am...

8 hours ago, N-o-l-a said:

The Dane is going to be bummed because of the most Scandinavian calls just came out over the fire radio.  Maybe an appropriate time since yesterday was syttende mai with parades galore.

English-only outside the regional forums, incomprehensible Nola-B. ma'am...

[TBoneTX 45,849]

1 hour ago, NikLR said:

redo the wiring in this house.  It's all aluminum and would need to be replaced if we redid the kitchen.  Another few grand to fix the insulation issues and venting in the roof.   Considering I have to redo wiring, plumbing, rebuild a wall, put in a window, all new cabinets and flooring, take down a wall

Cheaper (certainly faster) to tear the casa down and rebuild it, perhaps Niki-B. ma'am?

[TBoneTX 45,849]

On May 16, 2017 at 11:41 AM, SAT said:

Ok now citibank froze all of my Citi credit cards. What's going on here...

So what happened, huh man?

On May 16, 2017 at 8:43 AM, SAT said:

Unauthorized charge from Amazon. Hmmm....

So what happened, huh man?

[TBoneTX 45,849]

For dinner, Mrs. T-B. served lasagna (Aldi's house brand), ingest we man.

[N-o-l-a 7,168]

2 hours ago, NikLR said:

It would cost 10-15k just to redo the wiring in this house.  It's all aluminum and would need to be replaced if we redid the kitchen.  Another few grand to fix the insulation issues and venting in the roof.   Considering I have to redo wiring, plumbing, rebuild a wall, put in a window, all new cabinets and flooring, take down a wall, and NONE of it would be done by my husband.  Pretty sure close to 40-50k even with the size of my kitchen.  You can't just do the kitchen you have to do both main floor rooms unless you don't bother remodeling everything.  Then yes I agree it would be closer to 10-20k.  

 

But I could refinance for 50k get all new siding, new windows, tier the back, put in a fence and dog run, resod it, and probably build a screened in porch and have left overs with 50k.  Maybe enough to redo a bathroom! Because my husband CAN do some of that work.   

 

The estimates to redo my mother's tiny kitchen depending on the quality of cabinets were in that range and up to about 75k.  Cheaper to build an addition based on the same contractor.  

 

I don't know about your building code, but ours dictates that screened in porches have to be built to the same specifications as room additions.... we've held off because it is $$$$$$ for something that is totally overkill.  

[TBoneTX 45,849]

Despite postprandial nap, very sleepy, need-zzz we man.

Cat is asleep on floor by our feet, miu zzz man.

Mornin', remodelin'-, absent Commie-, and other babes with or without +1 inventories!

[NikLR 13,231]

9 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

Cheaper (certainly faster) to tear the casa down and rebuild it, perhaps Niki-B. ma'am?

No to both.  Maybe in Texas it is, but not here.

 

to buy my house again would cost me over 100k plus my original purchase price.   I cannot imagine tearing it down and rebuilding it would be any less. 

 

Nola: I do have to look into it but as I don't have the money I haven't bothered as of yet. 

Edited May 19, 2017 by NikLR

[TBoneTX 45,849]

Awful commute, exhausted man.

LEOs flying and lurking, watch out man.

Otherwise, turtles driving at seemingly 2x2x2x2-1 mph under the speed limit, frustrating man.

We need a nap already, before noon man.

[cdneh 3,112]

Just got off the phone with the Husband's O2 supplier. I gave them a bit of a rev up Wednesday, so they are falling all over themselves to pull their collective fingers out. I still don't see why an order for O2 signed on April 27 is just now being set up here at the house. I was told three days.

 

I swear the lady on the other end of the phone was audibly hillbilly. Seriously. They are meant to be arriving here this afternoon, but all she could really tell me was "after lunnnnnnnch. Y'all gonna be there then"?

 

I will behave. I will behave. I will not pitch a three cornered fit. I will not have a total come apart.

 

I spoke with the MIL's case worker yesterday, just to let them know about the flying glowing critters flying around in her room at night, and outside the window. My guess is she has dementia with Lewy bodies. We will see what happens there.

 

 

[N-o-l-a 7,168]

2 hours ago, NikLR said:

No to both.  Maybe in Texas it is, but not here.

 

to buy my house again would cost me over 100k plus my original purchase price.   I cannot imagine tearing it down and rebuilding it would be any less. 

 

Nola: I do have to look into it but as I don't have the money I haven't bothered as of yet. 

 

Minimum cost to build any house where I live is 200,000 and that is just the most basic house on slab type.   I think our house is insured for 250k even though it was only 75.

 

I feel like the building code here is pretty strict for a rural area.  For example, one of the things that surprised me is that if you took down any piece of wall or dry wall in the house, you had to hardwire the whole house for smoke/co detectors.  I'm sure that is an effort to force an upgrade on people who can afford home renovations, but it is irritating.

[trudi 1,317]

I made the rash decision that I should go out to work, am now facing the soul destroying applications made more complicated by the fact my last 2 employers in the U.K. either no longer exist or relocated their operation to Europe so I have no references ( other than personal)

being a housewife is looking more attractive by the minute.....

[TBoneTX 45,849]

18 minutes ago, cdneh said:

I will behave. I will behave. I will not pitch a Many-cornered fit. I will not have a total come apart.

Meanwhile, re-involve yourself with the very active barrel of monkeys that you solely own, si Eh ma'am.