Home additions
make sure you get revisions cost down in writing
Tuesday, February 5th, 2008when doing an addition or remodel or new construction, don’t ask for something in person, and let them answer oh yes we can do that. Get in writing what they are going to do and if there is going to be an extra charge, I’m frustrated now as we get to the end of the [...]
Tiling
Tuesday, December 4th, 2007Tiling takes much more time than I thought. I don’t know for sure what time they started yesterday on tile but they finished around 6-6:30 yesterday and only got the floor in one of the bathrooms done. So much for picking up some time on the tile. Maybe after a full day today we will [...]
a new bonus
Tuesday, November 13th, 2007Now that they have cut through the wall from the existing house into the addition we have a new added bonus that we have never had in the house before. MICE. the wife is thrilled. The cover the opening with plywood at night but I think they are still sneaking in, I’ll have to check [...]
Unhappy, at least for now
Wednesday, November 7th, 2007They started to stain the house, I’m not totally happy. I’m fine with the color, however since the wood on our existing house is 8 years old and the wood on the addition is only 1 week old there is a noticable weathering difference. The original home has cracks and signs of weather [...]
Copper sinks
Sunday, November 4th, 2007It looks like we are going to go with copper sinks in the master bathroom. I did some research before coming to this conclusion and now I like this idea more than ever. The copper sinks will change color as time goes on unless you want to either take the time to coat [...]
Redesigns are costly but…
Friday, November 2nd, 2007Sometimes what comes out of them is so much better than originally thought. I think we are going to be happy with the remodel of the new room. I think its a much better plan than before and I think it will work better for us.
Our biggest problem right now is how long [...]
No you can’t do that.
Thursday, November 1st, 2007Why does it seem lately that everyone can tell you what you can’t do but no one wants to give you a valid option of what you can do. Our builder 6 months into the project has decided that the designed stairs are too big so we won’t be happy with them. We have been [...]
Remodel = inconvinience
Monday, October 29th, 2007If you are doing a remodel of any major or even minor remodeling except a certain amount of convenience.
For us this was the loss of our master bedroom and master bathroom. We thought this wouldn’t be too bad because we could move into the dining room below our master and still have a division between [...]
Not a tip, just a rant ;-)
Thursday, October 25th, 2007After spending day after day, night after night looking at colors, rocks, bathroom fixtures, lights…….
Everything looks exactly the same to me. I can no longer tell the difference between Blue sky gray and Beachcomber gray and even worse I think I am reaching the point where I know longer care. Just order what you want [...]
Tip #2
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007When planning an addition tip #2
Get a time line in writing. Lots of people request these and everyone should The builder should not have a problem giving you one, when we asked we had it the next day. We didn’t get one of these until half way through the project, when it was obvious he [...]
