The Home Improvement Thread
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Its a "dry heat".... like pointing your wife's hair dryer at your balls for 10 minutes.
CowboyTaco
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Moving a wall so that we can convert a half bath into a full. Kind of aggravated that we didn't think of doing this sooner. Will be so nice having a full bath for the kids. Plumber is scheduled to start Monday. They will have to tunnel under the house and Jack hammer the foundation to tie in the plumbing. Going they can be all finished by next weekend.
PSU Taco85
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Looks like a poo pump
CowboyTaco
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Bingo. Previous home owners converted the garage to bedroom without permits. They also converted a closet into a half bath for the two newly converted rooms. Since no one was inspecting it, they used a basement toilet to shoot the poo up the wall and tied into the master bathroom vent, converting a dry vent into a wet vent.
Plumbers come tomorrow to move the water heater and start doing the plumbing correctly.
Oswego
n00b
He should be happy you are doing it right.
CowboyTaco
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Cost isn't as bad as I was expecting. Going to the plumber directly instead of a general contractor is saving a nice penny.
The cheapest GC said he could do the entire bathroom conversion for $X,XXX and thought that he could locate the main drain line. He was not able to give me a contingency if he couldn't find the main line. The most expensive GC wanted $30k for the project. In the end, we are getting it done for about half the cost of the guy who was guessing on location and the plumber scoped it to determine the exact location of the line.
All I can say is that it pays to find someone who is honest and knows their stuff. If anyone in DFW needs a plumber recommendation, let me know.
Oswego
n00b
For that kind of work I would tend to agree 99.9% of the time. Jobs so small it needs to be expensive just to afford an expensive babysitter like a GC's PM and even then it's not a high dollar amount.
I try to return a job cost minimum of $500 profit per man day. That's my days or my men's. If I can't turn that kind of cash around on the job - it's not for me. Just actually broke my record last week and got a return of $4,500 for every man day on a job. Helps when the material cost is super high and labor faily low - those are my favorites. All profits with minimal logistics.
I try to return a job cost minimum of $500 profit per man day. That's my days or my men's. If I can't turn that kind of cash around on the job - it's not for me. Just actually broke my record last week and got a return of $4,500 for every man day on a job. Helps when the material cost is super high and labor faily low - those are my favorites. All profits with minimal logistics.
My main thing is that people forget that per sq.ft., your kitchen and bathrooms are the most expensive part of your house.
Also to be fair, I would've added extra cost in there if I was bidding this job after seeing what the plumber did with the toilet. There's no telling what other sketchy shit they did if they can't be bothered to cut to the concrete and add in a real sewer line...
CowboyTaco
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Progress
Oswego
n00b
True. When I see sketchy stuff my price typically jumps 15-20% just to CMA.
PSU Taco85
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PSU Taco85
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Had a big branch break off in my yard after the storm we had a few days ago. Of course it's the tree that's right on the property line of my house and my neighbors, and my neighbor who lives there rents so the landlord wasn't doing shit to get it fixed. Spent some time to fire up the saw and get some bonfire wood for the fall
CowboyTaco
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What was stopping me from shitting in the yard before?
I want your tractor.
Every outside job is better with a tractorHad a big branch break off in my yard after the storm we had a few days ago. Of course it's the tree that's right on the property line of my house and my neighbors, and my neighbor who lives there rents so the landlord wasn't doing shit to get it fixed. Spent some time to fire up the saw and get some bonfire wood for the fall
It's crazy how much of a difference it'll make. I have a spare AC unit sitting in storage and I keep having to stop myself from cutting a hole in the side of the garage to install it since I live in a rent house. What makes it worse, is the 220V plug is right there and the area I was thinking of putting it used to be a door at one point in time so it's already framed out perfectly for me too
