It's been a crazy few days over here, currently home with my 1 year old because he's past the daycare fever limit, but there's nothing obviously wrong with him per the doctor except that he's cutting 2 molars. Ugh. Poor kid.
I am not currently dealing with MS, but I swore by b6/unisom my last pregnancy. I took a full pill of both right before bed.
I'm really interested to see how driving through the night goes for vacation goes tomorrow (leaving around 7 pm Sat). I am supposed to start but I've been SO exhausted and also not sleeping because insomnia.
Due to health issues our good (and cheap) contractor had to cancel our bathroom remodel and can't get to us again until February due to a surgery he is having. Umm... That's not going to work for us.
I've been getting recommendations from friends and Angie's List and someone came out today and without even taking measurements they said it would easily be a $40-50k remodel. It was all I could do not to laugh.
We paid $35k to completely gut our kitchen (including moving appliances) and a powder room. There is no way that a 150 square foot bathroom should take $50k to remodel. And we would be stupid to pay that much because while we plan on this being a forever house there isn't a guarantee. We would never recoup that cost in a resale situation.
I get that we will have to pay more because our contractor is cheap (one man crew who is a friend and his wife is our accountant) but that is insane.
Oh hell no.
We are redoing our master bath ourselves. It's been... A process... Mostly because of depression.
But it's also only costing us $3k including a $1500 bath tub, so there's that
Unfortunately doing it ourselves isn't an option. We are both decently handy but this is beyond our scope of knowledge and experience. EVERYTHING needs replaced and we will likely have to move electric and plumbing so we need to have a pro.
Our normal contractor was telling me it would be $10-15k and considering what we are doing and the size of the space that sounds reasonable. $50k is just asinine.
Due to health issues our good (and cheap) contractor had to cancel our bathroom remodel and can't get to us again until February due to a surgery he is having. Umm... That's not going to work for us.
I've been getting recommendations from friends and Angie's List and someone came out today and without even taking measurements they said it would easily be a $40-50k remodel. It was all I could do not to laugh.
We paid $35k to completely gut our kitchen (including moving appliances) and a powder room. There is no way that a 150 square foot bathroom should take $50k to remodel. And we would be stupid to pay that much because while we plan on this being a forever house there isn't a guarantee. We would never recoup that cost in a resale situation.
I get that we will have to pay more because our contractor is cheap (one man crew who is a friend and his wife is our accountant) but that is insane.
Oh hell no.
We are redoing our master bath ourselves. It's been... A process... Mostly because of depression.
But it's also only costing us $3k including a $1500 bath tub, so there's that
Want to come over and renovate ours next? :-)
Our plan involved making it bigger knocking down walls, so probably not. We haven't even bothered to get quotes for it yet.
NariaDreaming good luck with your strawberry Danish lol! It sounds wonderful!
aprilz81, I also agree that 50k sounds asinine! I could expect maybe $20k if you're original contractor was cheap. Is it already torn apart? If not started could you live with it til contractor is better? Say March/April when this baby will be a few months? To save that kind of money, if it's livable as is, I'd wait even though it sucks. We did our full entire gutted kitchen Reno for under $30k (way under actually, but we didn't move any appliances), including cabinets, tile, knocking down a wall and a whole new ceiling. Home Depot wanted $15k for cabinets alone. No counters. We went to a small business cabinet guy and got cabinets and granite counters for like $7500. $50k for a small bathroom is way off base.
I sucked it up and went to crossfit today. I'm glad I did. A) I feel better, and B) I told my coaches and they want to meet me on tues for a sit down eval and dos and donts during pregnancy, modifications, and how I can keep an eye on my body. Big weight lifted. (No pun intended, really)
Post by peaseblossom55 on May 27, 2016 12:10:02 GMT -5
aprilz81, $50,000 is crazy. I hope you can find some cheaper contractors. What kind of renovations are you looking to have done? I'd love to renovate our master, but it's just H's bathroom and he's ok with it for now. Mine is down the hall, but I want to make it bigger to share and install a huge soaking tub.
We are redoing our master bath ourselves. It's been... A process... Mostly because of depression.
But it's also only costing us $3k including a $1500 bath tub, so there's that
Unfortunately doing it ourselves isn't an option. We are both decently handy but this is beyond our scope of knowledge and experience. EVERYTHING needs replaced and we will likely have to move electric and plumbing so we need to have a pro.
Our normal contractor was telling me it would be $10-15k and considering what we are doing and the size of the space that sounds reasonable. $50k is just asinine.
Then my second suggestion would be piecemealing it out- hire a plumber, hire an electrician, hire a carpenter if framing out shower/bath isn't your forte, and then do the rest.
We hired the electrical out, but DH did the plumbing himself. It was... a bit stressful, and if I had to go back, I'd hire out the plumbing just on the off chance that a connection failed and we needed someone to be on the hook for repair costs.
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We have a 3/4 wall that we want to close in so the moisture and noise of the bathroom stays (mostly) in the bathroom. We want it to be partially an interior window so the light from the skylight can stream into the bedroom. Where the wall borders the closet (behind the hideous built in that will eventually go away) it will be drywall to the ceiling.
We want to replace all the interior flat panel doors, replace all the brass with oil rubbed bronze, new vanity, new sink/counters, new mirror, new lighting, new tile and in floor heating, electric outlets in the vanity so the hairdryer and DH's shaver doesn't permanently live on the counter. Replace the current closet doors with a pocket door so we have more wall space to hang a mirror or closet shelving inside the closet.
We want the tub gone and a walk in shower in it's place. The current shower location will hopefully become an upstairs laundry room to get it out of the mud room. We may have to tweak the layout to make sure we maximize usage and we might need to move the interior bathroom wall out a little bit.
We have a small linen closet and a water closet that I hope will stay in some way. I like having the toilet in its own room because I don't like peeing in front of DH. Some things need to remain a mystery in marriage.
NariaDreaming good luck with your strawberry Danish lol! It sounds wonderful!
aprilz81 , I also agree that 50k sounds asinine! I could expect maybe $20k if you're original contractor was cheap. Is it already torn apart? If not started could you live with it til contractor is better? Say March/April when this baby will be a few months? To save that kind of money, if it's livable as is, I'd wait even though it sucks. We did our full entire gutted kitchen Reno for under $30k (way under actually, but we didn't move any appliances), including cabinets, tile, knocking down a wall and a whole new ceiling. Home Depot wanted $15k for cabinets alone. No counters. We went to a small business cabinet guy and got cabinets and granite counters for like $7500. $50k for a small bathroom is way off base.
I sucked it up and went to crossfit today. I'm glad I did. A) I feel better, and B) I told my coaches and they want to meet me on tues for a sit down eval and dos and donts during pregnancy, modifications, and how I can keep an eye on my body. Big weight lifted. (No pun intended, really)
The good news is that demo had not started (he tried to talk us into starting it early to save some money by having him do it). I just can't imagine trying to do a project this big with an infant.
Our kitchen took 8 weeks and our normal contractor said that our bathroom would probably take 4-6. Our lives will already be disrupted enough adjusting to a baby but to have electric and plumbing on and off throughout the day while he works on different areas, having to move into the guest room. I'd just rather not....
That being said, if all of our quotes come back between 40-50k than we will have no choice but to wait. $25k is my absolute max and that makes my stomach hurt to spend that much on a bathroom no one but us will see after we do the grand reveal.
I went back to have my 2nd betas drawn today. They went from 149 to 208. Not fantastic, but I'm trying not to worry because there's nothing I can do about it. I go back on Wednesday to have them checked again, because Monday they are only doing essential monitoring and there weren't any 7:00 AM appointments available on Tuesday.
Other than that, I'm super excited for the three day weekend! I am sleeping in tomorrow, which I haven't done in weeks and I cannot wait!
Where to begin? Daycare is closed and MH was supposed to come home before I left for work. He got caught up with a work issue. I called me administrator and she told me to bring DS to work. So....I am at work, teaching 8th graders, with a two year old.
This actually sounds really nice! I teach high school and would kind of like to bring my 2 year old to work one day.
Due to health issues our good (and cheap) contractor had to cancel our bathroom remodel and can't get to us again until February due to a surgery he is having. Umm... That's not going to work for us.
I've been getting recommendations from friends and Angie's List and someone came out today and without even taking measurements they said it would easily be a $40-50k remodel. It was all I could do not to laugh.
We paid $35k to completely gut our kitchen (including moving appliances) and a powder room. There is no way that a 150 square foot bathroom should take $50k to remodel. And we would be stupid to pay that much because while we plan on this being a forever house there isn't a guarantee. We would never recoup that cost in a resale situation.
I get that we will have to pay more because our contractor is cheap (one man crew who is a friend and his wife is our accountant) but that is insane.
Good luck finding a good contractor! Does your good contractor know anybody who could do the job for you at a reasonable price?
This reminded me of the house hunters renovations I watched last night where they paid $57,000 to redo the bannister!
Due to health issues our good (and cheap) contractor had to cancel our bathroom remodel and can't get to us again until February due to a surgery he is having. Umm... That's not going to work for us.
I've been getting recommendations from friends and Angie's List and someone came out today and without even taking measurements they said it would easily be a $40-50k remodel. It was all I could do not to laugh.
We paid $35k to completely gut our kitchen (including moving appliances) and a powder room. There is no way that a 150 square foot bathroom should take $50k to remodel. And we would be stupid to pay that much because while we plan on this being a forever house there isn't a guarantee. We would never recoup that cost in a resale situation.
I get that we will have to pay more because our contractor is cheap (one man crew who is a friend and his wife is our accountant) but that is insane.
Good luck finding a good contractor! Does your good contractor know anybody who could do the job for you at a reasonable price?
This reminded me of the house hunters renovations I watched last night where they paid $57,000 to redo the bannister!
I've asked for recommendations from him and he has said he will get us some names and has offered to go over the quotes we get back to make sure they sound right. Unfortunately even before he got sick he wasn't the most responsive to texts/calls so I'm not sure when we will hear back.
While we wait I wanted to feel like we were doing SOMETHING so I'm calling companies that are highly rated on Angie's List and anyone our friends recommend.
jrun2013, Fx for good betas on Weds. You're right theres nothing you can do, and worrying won't help nor hurt, so better off not worrying. I hope you have a nice relaxing weekend!
judyblume14, yes! they are awesome! My renewal is coming up too and I was going back and forth whether I'd stay if I got KU. I'm definitely going to stay, just from my experience today. I hadn't told them before the WOD, and about 7 mins into our 20 min AMRAP, I waved the one coach over because I knew I was moving slower than normal and told him. He just smiled and said ok, so take a breath between rounds, get some water and moderate your pace to how you're feeling, I said I'm just trying not to puke is all!
]I've asked for recommendations from him and he has said he will get us some names and has offered to go over the quotes we get back to make sure they sound right. Unfortunately even before he got sick he wasn't the most responsive to texts/calls so I'm not sure when we will hear back.
While we wait I wanted to feel like we were doing SOMETHING so I'm calling companies that are highly rated on Angie's List and anyone our friends recommend.[/quote]
That's good that you are getting quotes from him so you can try to negotiate with someone else. Good luck finding someone!
Eta: sorry I don't know how to clip quote boxes yet.
aprilz81 we had a great experience with the contractor that updated our kitchen and finished our basement last year. We weren't doing anything particularly big, so I'd be curious to see what others say on Angie's List.
We brought a couple contactors in who were super snobby when we said we wanted to do things on a budget.
That said, our guy was having knee surgery last spring so hopefully he came back after that!
aprilz81 we had a great experience with the contractor that updated our kitchen and finished our basement last year. We weren't doing anything particularly big, so I'd be curious to see what others say on Angie's List.
We brought a couple contactors in who were super snobby when we said we wanted to do things on a budget.
That said, our guy was having knee surgery last spring so hopefully he came back after that!
I've talked to two other contractors who will be out in the next few weeks to take a look and prepare quotes. One company who friends used said they did a similar size bathroom and moved the laundry room and that project was $32-35k. Still way more than we want to pay but a helluva lot cheaper than $50k.
Even though labor is the single biggest cost in a project like this the budget can easily get out of control if you constantly pick super expensive finishings. So no two projects will ever be the same because someone could choose a $100 faucet and someone else could pick a $2,000 faucet.
I admit I have expensive tastes, but if you show me two similar tiles and one is half the price I will purchase the less expensive one as long as the quality is good enough. So once we get a contractor with a decent bid I'm okay with not going super high end with the finishings. If we want to upgrade a faucet in 5 years that is super easy, but I don't want to get a new vanity in 5 years because we went cheap and it is falling apart.
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