Bruh, I feel you. Me and the wifey tore out the carpet and padding in two rooms and replaced it with vinyl linoleum sheet (a couple of dogs we got required potty training and thoroughly violated the carpet in those two rooms). We did all the work ourselves and just that kicked our asses. I can't imagine doing a full house. I'm getting too old for that shit.

We just tore out our old master bath tub and small standup shower and replaced it with a full custom walk-in shower.

I paid for 100% of that job to be done by someone other than me.

#feelsgood

I finished my basement myself. Neighbor did his for $50 grand. Mine was less than $10k. Can’t justify paying someone that much to do my shit. The basement looks as good if not better than the rest of the house that “professionals” did anyway.

As I sit, taking a shit, in my 70% remodeled main bathroom I pity you.


**** REMODELING!

HGTV is the source of 90% of my home projects, or wich about 30% have been necessary.

I Am at the point in my life on certain things I just pay the man. I’m handy but time is handier. I can live with chaos and bossing contractors.

Did you take advantage of the Christina Across America deal?

I designed mine and had most of it built in 2017, so I don’t anticipate a remodel ever. Most of my work has and will be outdoor stuff, which I enjoy. Large deck out front has hosted a lot of bands and handles a 5-piece comfortably. I’m paused on the tiki bar off to the side, but it’s got a roof and is mostly framed. It’s just me and a dog, so I don’t need much. I don’t miss the idea of another remodel.

WTF is that?

I'll pay you $30k to do my basement. Win-win.

I've done a handful of small DIY projects. It ain't my forte. At all.

I’d never be able to wash the Denver stink out of my hair.

Should've hired some of these capable handywomen. They'd have had it done in no time, and under budget.
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We had an addition, larger than the original house, added to ours when it was still our second home before retiring.

The downside was that we were 11 hours away while the work was going on and the highly recommended contractor had a memory shorter than my Johnson. Many things were not done as we specified and he had never heard the saying "the customer is always right." It was a horrible experience even though we love the addition minus his errors.

Just in the past few months, they have cost us over $10,000 to get right. It was hard for me to imagine paying $7200 to have the water heater, water tank and water softener moved to the correct location allowing handicap access. Another $3000 to replace a support beam that had not been properly protected from the weather with metal flashing completely covering it that rotted out.

If the hail storm/tornado hadn't happened to require the siding replacement, we probably wouldn't have known about it until the whole thing came crashing down.

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I have completely remodeled the 2 houses I’ve bought the last 16 years.

I am in construction so it’s no biggie, but the 2 things I didn’t touch were the drainage system and mudding.

The drain system for obvious reasons and I just never learned to mud. Weird. I probably enjoy electrical the most.