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By CitizenX - 6/11/2006 12:19:26 AM
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Very nice! You guys do good work. Wanna come to Wisconsin and give us a hand with our addition we want to do? Congrats on the great looking house!
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By whooven - 7/27/2005 12:06:42 PM
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I'm always impressed when people do their own work. I hope I can do that kind of stuff someday. Please keep posting pics. Fun to see the transition.
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By pokey - 6/25/2006 9:49:46 AM
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Nice! You guys are doing a great job on that baby!
Bud
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By artyart - 3/18/2006 9:35:52 PM
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Nice, looks like a good amount of space.
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By artyart - 10/15/2006 7:45:21 PM
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Looking good, must be a relief to see you're so close to being done.
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By spirit - 8/16/2005 10:03:15 AM
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looks like a blast!!!
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By Scramblerman72 - 3/18/2006 2:48:03 PM
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Looks Good Man!
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By Scramblerman72 - 5/6/2007 11:48:50 AM
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that kitchen looks like CRAP
Don't show my wife please. she will want ours done next!
Nice Job!
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By Twystd - 10/2/2005 10:53:55 AM
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I sure miss working in the constrution field 
Looks good, keep up the good work 
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By armytj - 7/27/2005 11:07:27 PM
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Hey as long as your cleaning house can I have the axle that's in the fourth picLooks good keep us posted.
steve
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By JeepinScott - 10/4/2005 12:45:26 PM
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Making progress! looks good.
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By MrsJeepinScott - 5/7/2007 11:33:18 AM
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Wow, what a difference! Looks great!
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By qwiksilver - 9/6/2005 2:12:28 PM
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When I need someone to throw me up a small cottage...I know who to call. 
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By qwiksilver - 10/2/2005 10:47:02 AM
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Man...this facinates me. Don't ask why...but I love watching a house go up. Even a guest house.
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By Im Rebel - 1/20/2007 6:23:56 AM
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That looks awesome, can't wait for the party. Those tankless water heaters are awesome!
Reb
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By abriley - 1/6/2007 11:23:28 PM
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nice job! It looks like a totally new house.
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By abriley - 4/7/2007 4:02:04 PM
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That's nice!! Again, congratulations!
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By WobblesXJ - 9/6/2005 10:39:38 AM
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Looks nice man but you need a bigger yard.
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By WobblesXJ - 10/2/2005 11:09:41 AM
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Looks good man. Do it up.
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By WobblesXJ - 1/25/2006 9:32:05 AM
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COOOOOOL Come do mine next.
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By hortonsinnm - 5/30/2007 6:33:30 AM
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What an awesome remodel! Looks great... Love the kitchen... You have done an amazing job!
That is not a remodel. It might as well be considered building a new house!!! It does not even look remotely the same any more!!!
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By kike - 5/6/2007 5:52:49 AM
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Wow it looks awesome!!
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By Russ - 7/27/2005 7:54:53 AM
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drink LOTS of water, and keep posting pics
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By Russ - 5/6/2007 9:58:30 PM
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I love the bucket lights and the counter tops. What a difference.
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By Jeep Guru - 8/3/2006 10:22:28 AM
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Dude. That is very very impressive. I had no idea this was going on until just now. That looks really really damn good. Props.
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By Sarges 7 - 6/10/2006 7:49:20 PM
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You guys do some great work, you sure changed the house (whole property for that matter)! It's beautiful.
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By Sarges 7 - 7/30/2006 12:42:54 PM
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Any newer pics??? 
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By Sarges 7 - 8/3/2006 7:50:09 AM
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So, my question is, what will that place be worth when you're done with it, like $1.2 mil or something?
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By Sarges 7 - 8/4/2006 8:31:58 AM
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Are you thinking of selling, or just saying that? I knew an older guy who once said that when I asked him what something he was contemplating selling was worth. He said, "it's worth whatever I can sell it for...what will you give me?" I replied, "a dollar?". He didn't find it as funny as I did, 'course I was only 18 at the time.
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By Sarges 7 - 8/16/2006 11:11:44 AM
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Lookin' great!!
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By Sarges 7 - 8/17/2006 6:10:34 AM
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Should I PM you my address so you can send out my airline tickets?
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By Sarges 7 - 8/17/2006 1:57:36 PM
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Should I PM you my address so you can send out my airline tickets?
We can carpool Sarge.
Sounds good.
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By Sarges 7 - 8/27/2006 9:03:31 AM
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Looks great! That is some insainly large crown!!
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By Sarges 7 - 1/7/2007 5:27:23 AM
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Very nice!!
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By carwash - 12/23/2005 4:47:52 AM
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Is there chicken wire on teh outside of your house?
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By carwash - 5/3/2006 6:19:00 AM
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jesus...should have scraped it and started fresh...
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By carwash - 8/17/2006 1:26:12 AM
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nice chicken coop.
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By carwash - 8/17/2006 1:34:39 PM
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Should I PM you my address so you can send out my airline tickets?
We can carpool Sarge.
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By xterminatoration - 6/25/2006 10:08:49 AM
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Geeze! what a change. looks great.
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By scherf68 - 3/19/2006 12:13:24 PM
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are you over budget yet, looks real good. I just started my new garage and poured the pad 2 weeks ago. My old garage was half eat'n by termites. I have already gone 1500.00 over budget for a new driveway due to the cement truck turning my 100 yr old one into quicksand.
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By WallyCJ7 - 10/15/2006 11:44:39 AM
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Now that's what I call a nice looking house. Over a year to get it done and it turned out looking great.
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By WallyCJ7 - 5/30/2007 8:23:38 AM
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It's about time
What's next????
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By Jeepgun - 11/11/2005 1:59:51 AM
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Fantastic! It's lookin' good already.
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By Button - 8/16/2006 11:00:49 PM
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like a new house! congrats on all your hard work.
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By carrizojim - 5/29/2007 9:06:43 PM
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What an awesome remodel! Looks great... Love the kitchen... You have done an amazing job!
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By imgonnasnap - 7/27/2005 7:39:43 AM
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We have FINALLY started the remodel on our house.. plan checks through the city took way too much longer than it should have. We are adding about 450 sq feet to the house, adding a 350 sq feet guest house, and 100 sq feet to our garage, which we will finally have enough room for all of our million tools!!
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What the new buildings will look like
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Start! (front, duh)
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rear facing house
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old "guest house" (acutally, it was a bbq porch thing, but the previous owners enclosed it.. it was a very questionable building)
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other side
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where the shack used to be.
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Progress! Finding the sewer line, we are going to replace the whole thing.. ::ew::
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Back yard today, house gone, widewalk and other misc concrete.. so far we have romoved at least 21 tons from the house, and we still have a lot to demo
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This is five hours of work today.
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By imgonnasnap - 7/27/2005 7:56:25 AM
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drink LOTS of water, and keep posting pics
Yeah, my bro and i have been managing about a gallon of bee....water over the work hours..and a litre of soda..[:I]
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By imgonnasnap - 7/27/2005 1:00:43 PM
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what year was your house built, and are you doing everything or just prepping for the concrete and framing?
It was built in like 195-something.. we are doing nearly everything for the remodel, concrete, framing, pluming, roofing, drywall and finish. the electical and stucco are being sub'ed.
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By imgonnasnap - 8/16/2005 5:42:10 AM
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The project is moving along fairly well, my dad has put in about 15 hours or so, and the rest has been my little brother and myself. We have inspection on 8/17, and are set to pour concrete this saturday.
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My brother and dad Compacting the Pad
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New forms/rebar
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The new garage, my Dad and I have been planning how we want to "decorate" the new space, but will mostly include a nice double wide door, with lots of storage containers and shelves for everything.
We spent two hours last week trying to figure out why our new garage was out of square by 3 inches!, so we started from square one and made sure everything was measured correctly from the street, then made sure the new house was square (is out of whack by 1 inch) and then got lost at the garage.. starred at it for a while, finally we realized the brick wall was wrong! so we measured from the new house to the brick wall, and sure enough the brick wall is 3 inches closer than it should be on one end! That wasn't a problem once we figured out what was going on.
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Another angle. If anyone wants that green oxygen bottle, they are welcomed to it! some one left it at one of my dads jobs, so he brought it home, we've tried to turn it back in for "reward" or to fill it, but they won't take it because its a medical grade bottle..
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Since we didnt have enough to fill the low boy at the time we had it, we went ahead and tore out the front planters. It already has a new and better look!
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By imgonnasnap - 8/17/2005 1:18:28 AM
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hey if you guys need help drinking some miller genuine water let me know.
I'm always down for some.
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By imgonnasnap - 9/6/2005 10:22:36 AM
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P-day! (thats me in the blue cap)
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I think I heard him mumble something under his breath.. "you bastard, tieing me in here, so I can't see whats going on!"
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Finished slab for guest house
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Wall four! and that concludes our first day of framing.
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This is our porch. you can see the cover is gone, and the footings in the process. the new house will come out to those stakes you see.
We are going to finish the guest house framing in the next day or two, then demo the porch.
Also, we had a few mishaps, the biggest so far of our project.. my brother wasn't listening to me when we put up wall two, and so I lost my balance and the entire wall came down! fortunately for me, I was able to fit through the studs and escape injury. Then like an hour later almost stepped on two different nails. luckily I had light feet today.
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By imgonnasnap - 5/30/2007 2:17:20 AM
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I just got an email from my mom that we passed final inspection on the house! This was the first try at final, and the inspector must have been very happy with what he saw to pass first time around.
We also have the appraiser coming to assess the house as well.
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By imgonnasnap - 5/31/2007 12:22:29 AM
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That is not a remodel. It might as well be considered building a new house!!! It does not even look remotely the same any more!!!
True, it does look like a brand spankin new house, but much of the existing foundation and framing as left in place. By our city standards you can have as little as one 10 ft long wall and foundation to still be considered a remodel. This still has about 50% of the framing/foundation for the main house and 80% for the garage.
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It's about time
What's next????
We were thinking a 4-unit apartment/condo project, but that won't be for another year or two.
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By imgonnasnap - 5/7/2007 1:46:18 AM
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Just as a referrence, you can see from this picture the old kitchen location and size at the right, quite an upgrade! (we've GOT to have the largest kitchen in the neighborhood now)
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By imgonnasnap - 5/29/2007 12:40:04 PM
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We are getting VERY close to being finished. There are a lot of finishing touches being applied at this point. the granite countertops are 100% done, as is the cabinets and travertine flooring.
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You can see my mom has already started decorating the place.
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We have granite backsplash all the way to the upper cabinets throughout the kitchen
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Those are cookies treats, don't be mistaking them for your own!
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She also went out and bought some simple bar stools. they are narrow enough to fit under the bar without taking up any extra space.
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By imgonnasnap - 5/29/2007 12:54:30 PM
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Gigantor, the kitchin sink faucet is really awesome to have! its high enough you can actually get something under it, and it also has a snake function to get to all corners of the sink.
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Here is all the marble tile work done in the master bathroom. as you can see it wraps all the way around, and ends at the bathroom sink. there will be a shower enclosure door that goes in here soon.
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We also incorporated it into the floor, along with the travertine from the kitchen. it took a long time for us to come up with a design we liked, this one. it was very labor intensive.
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By imgonnasnap - 5/29/2007 12:56:27 PM
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Here is the sink/cabinet my parents picked out. they bought it at costco, and its really heavy! This style cabinet seems to be all the rage right now..
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Here is the master closet, my dad made those organizers, and im sure he'll build more soon enough. It's also been carpeted.
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This was the old, original, closet that was torn out since we were making a master closet. Having this space ended up being perfect to put my moms desk so she can work at her computer in peace.
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This is the front entry way, we brought all the stones together at this point, the large travertine, with the marble boarder, and diamonded shaped granite in the middle.
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Cookie is very happy about new carpet! she's been rolling on it and rubbing her stomach all over it!
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We had the carpet installed friday of memorial day weekend, so we spend the rest of the holiday weekend cleaning up and moving furniture back in the house. we'll probably end up replacing all the old couches soon enough wtih some new stuff that matches better.
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By imgonnasnap - 5/29/2007 12:58:25 PM
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My mom has even started decorating the outside of the house, buying a few of these plants at home depot and planting them around the place.
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Including this wierd thing.
Thats all the updates for now! we are getting very close. The carpet was a huge mile stone for us. we were actually able to sit down and eat a home cooked meal my mom had prepared (which my dad raved about, said it was well worth the year of hell, lol) and relax afterwards and watch a movie.
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By imgonnasnap - 5/30/2007 1:23:33 AM
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What an awesome remodel! Looks great... Love the kitchen... You have done an amazing job!
It's so big, you get a work out just cooking in it!
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By imgonnasnap - 3/4/2007 7:48:04 AM
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Here you can see the new kitchin with the soffets above the cabinet area, that later this week we will get the crown molding in. it also has texture (medium orange peel) at this point. it is now painted as of today, but basicly looks the same.
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Here you can see the new lightweight concrete gypcrete that went in. it will be tile from the dining room throughout the kitchen and laundry room. and the living room and bedrooms will be carpet.
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This is my dad after painting. I told him he looks like an oompa loompa, but his face is the wrong color!
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Here you can see the bathroom with the patwork done and texture. I waterproofed it this morning, so the only difference is now its painted and has black sticky tar on that wood area, which is ready to be scratch & browned in for tile.
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By imgonnasnap - 3/4/2007 7:49:31 AM
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As before the remodel we had part of the living room with a brownish color, we decided to stick with that same color theme, so instead of "contractor white" its got a little flare.
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As you can see we did not do a precision job on painting the ceiling brown/white. we were not too concerned since we will be going with a three piece molding that will cover a good portion of the corners.
Later thsi week and weekend we should have tile done (being started tomarrow), all moldings (base, case, crown). The cabinet people have already been out to measure, so it should be 2-3 weeks before we get those installed. Carpet i am not sure about on timing, but will be finished shortly after the tile is done so that we dont mess up the new carpet. Now painting is all done, we can reinstall all lighting fixtures/switches, a/c conttrols, etc.
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By imgonnasnap - 4/7/2007 5:14:09 AM
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Finally some updates. and getting much much closer to being finished! We are fortuate enough to know a great tile person. and just finished up the secondary bathroom and the kitchen/dining room. The tile in the kitchen is 2ftx2ft 5/8 thick.
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By imgonnasnap - 4/7/2007 5:14:55 AM
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By imgonnasnap - 4/7/2007 5:15:40 AM
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Monday the granite guy comes to measure for the counter tops. after we get the master bathroom tiled, the carpet guy will be in to lay carpet down.
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By imgonnasnap - 5/6/2007 1:43:11 AM
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We got the granite installed earlier this week, but due to some problems, we are having to install a backsplash. we ended up going with 18" high granite back splash, which will go all the way to the bottom of the cabinets. Overall we are very happy with the granite and countertops. The finished height of the counter tops is 38 1/2" inches. so No more bending over to wash dishes ever again! if any of you ever go to redo your kitchen i highly recomend doing a similar height counter tops!
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By imgonnasnap - 1/19/2007 3:34:07 AM
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Thanks guys, it feels like a new house.
Especially once we get our new cabinets and drywall in. We had framing/plumbing/electrical/gas inspection and passed everything, so we are scheduling our insulation, drywall, cabinets, granite.
We'll be finishing out the carpentry and paint ourselves, most likely, since its easy and quick to do.
Now that we're starting the finishing work, we will have to pull almost everything out of the house to finish up, so the next phase is going to be difficult with no furnature or appliances. but of course, that means new stuff too! at least new appliances..
 
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By imgonnasnap - 1/31/2007 10:24:56 AM
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Here are some updates:
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Here we are pulling the old 1X2 hardwood floor and 1x6 underlayment to resheet it with plywood. we did this in the old kitchen (now laundry room) and dining (still dining).
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60 Year old building techniques. The concrete column/pillar with a steel beam. not the greatest for earthquake retrofitting. on all the new foundations are concrete grade beams intead of just a few pillars. Also you can see 60 year old Pine needles. there must have been a pine tree near by at the time the house was built 
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By imgonnasnap - 1/31/2007 10:27:02 AM
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This is the new pull down stairs. Much MUCH nicer than the one in the guest house. this one is wider and easier to get up, its almost as twice as wide as the guest house stairs, and has a locking mechanism to keep it shut.
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Finally insulated! we are scheduled to have inspection on friday, and if all goes well, should be drywalling this weekend. cabinets are basicly ordered, they are production custom cabinets 
They should turn out very nice with all the options my mom added to them.
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By imgonnasnap - 2/1/2007 3:16:05 AM
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Thats why there's some missing in the kitchen 
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By imgonnasnap - 3/4/2007 7:47:00 AM
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Finally some great progress, we feel like we are finally finishing. last week we had the drywall installed and lightweight concrete floors installed on the new portions of the house. this helps for installing tile on raised foundation houses, since they tend to not be as strong and flat surface, which could eventually lead to cracking of the tile grout. the gypcrete is semi flexable (concrete flexible? 
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the laundry room with the drywall on it.
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By imgonnasnap - 8/27/2006 7:59:10 AM
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The front doors and windows.
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here you can see the crown molding that will go around the soffet of the roof. it will be done very similarly on the lower portin of the house all the way around.
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By imgonnasnap - 8/27/2006 9:54:48 AM
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Looks great! That is some insainly large crown!!
It's not that bad once the color is put on, you hardly see it. we are, however, thinking of painting the foam a different color than the rest of the house to make it stand out a bit more. but we havent made that decision yet, so it might not happen.
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By imgonnasnap - 10/15/2006 8:25:59 AM
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So finally I have some updates to show you guys. It's been a while since the last, haven't had a whole lot done to the house due to both my parents working new jobs, my brother in school and me at my new job. but the electrical is 99% done, and the stucco is finally done. they did a sloppy job, however and will take a while to get the facia board painted since its covered in concrete.
The roof is 100% done, and stucco is 99% percent done, just a few touch ups here and there. next we need to finish the last little bit of electrical and plumbing and we can start putting up some drywall.
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By imgonnasnap - 10/15/2006 11:55:39 AM
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Now that's what I call a nice looking house. Over a year to get it done and it turned out looking great.
It's a slow go when the entire house is built by no more than 5 people at any time. its getting there though!
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By imgonnasnap - 1/6/2007 2:59:46 AM
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Well, with the holidays progress slowed down to a halt, but now that all that crap is over, we are hard at work with it again. we had some plumbers from my work come and finish up the last of the plumbing, and with the freezing weather, my dad got the HVAC system going, and its been pumping hot air nicely.
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new thermostat for the new HVAC system!
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the old circuit breaker box. We are pretty sure this box is a newer unit, a buddy down the street has the original circuit breakers with vaccum tubes.
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By imgonnasnap - 1/6/2007 3:13:03 AM
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the new shower controls, and the much hated single knob hot/cold controls.
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Lastly, the old hot/cold controls, with original cast iron threaded pipes. we pulled the entire old system out so everything is running on new copper pipes (as well as the new water heater for the house).
We pulled the water heater out of the main house when we started the remodel on it, and have been running hot water from the guest house through the shop sink to the main house, it worked, but not well. its amazing how much hot water those tankless suckers pump out, continually with hot water. fortunately now we have a functional tankless for each building so we dont have to worry about it anymore.
We had inspection but failed because the inspector said he wanted all the old wiring out. first he said it was fine until it passes inspection, then he came back later and said it wasnt good. we had also put down plywood flooring up stairs, which he said he did not need to look at the joices, but once again, changed his mind and said he does want to look at them, the rat bastard. so now we have to pull the floor up, up stairs to pass inspection before we can drywall. fortunately we knew they would probably say that, so the plywood was laid with minimal screws.
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By imgonnasnap - 8/16/2006 10:31:08 AM
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Finally some worthwile updates!
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Here you can see only half the roof is done. we are waiting until the dormers are done to finish this side of the roof. stucco makes a big mess and can mess up the roof finish.
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By imgonnasnap - 8/16/2006 10:40:53 AM
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Front of the house. you can see it with the new windows, new door and wrap
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By imgonnasnap - 8/17/2006 4:43:36 AM
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Thanks We need to have a JA BBQ meet n greet when its finish or something to show it off
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By imgonnasnap - 8/17/2006 7:55:01 AM
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Originally posted by Sarges 7
Should I PM you my address so you can send out my airline tickets?
sure, it'll just be COD
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By imgonnasnap - 8/17/2006 10:29:46 AM
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dont worry. it probably won't be finalized until spring.
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By imgonnasnap - 8/18/2006 12:01:39 AM
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Just some quick updates. we had the scratch and brown coats for the stucco done, and later in the week, they started on doing th decrative foam around the doors and windows. there is still the "belly band" that will go horiztonally, similar to the guest house.
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Here you can see the back door and windows. and to the left, how the foam arrives to us, its already cut into shape, it just has to be cut for the angles to fit around the openings.
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The side four windows.
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By imgonnasnap - 6/25/2006 2:17:52 AM
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Here we are, everything covered up so we can demo the interior walls. best day of construction! after ALLLLll this work, it finally feels like our house is bigger.
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Here the living room 5 feet larger in the front. you can see, with the chairs there, it makes a large difference. Our living room is now a large square, instead of a narrow rectangle
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By imgonnasnap - 6/25/2006 2:21:17 AM
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Here you can see from the new kitchen all the way across the living room to the new wall.
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Here is a view from the back of the kitchen towards the front.
If you look closely at the kitchen wall (that has been demo'ed, its just a few studs) we are moving it back to the right two feet. right about where that pipe comes up (that was for the old sink) and a new door into what will become the laundry room.
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By imgonnasnap - 6/25/2006 2:26:06 AM
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Here is the view from the dining, throught he kitchen. that bare wall ont he left still needs to be moved 2 feet back, so the dining area is larger.
Just to refresh your memories, here is what we started with! How much it has grown.....
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By imgonnasnap - 7/30/2006 1:31:25 PM
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yes, doin the A/c, electrical, and plumbing on the new house, but i've been lazy about it.
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By imgonnasnap - 8/3/2006 10:34:21 AM
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Originally posted by Sarges 7
So, my question is, what will that place be worth when you're done with it, like $1.2 mil or something?
Not particularly sure. But a comparison. the house two doors down sold for 520K and was only like 925 sq feet or so. it was smaller than our house before our remodel. I think it may have had the kitchen redone, but nothing major.
we have 2900 sq feet of total living space (down stairs & upstairs bedrooms main house, and guest house) not counting the garage/shop (about 522 sq feet total). it will have 100% new plumbing, eletrical, HVAC, floor (carpet/tile) kitchen cabinets/tops and bathrooms) so.. really its only worth what we can sell it for..
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By imgonnasnap - 8/3/2006 10:39:23 AM
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Originally posted by Jeep Guru
Dude. That is very very impressive. I had no idea this was going on until just now. That looks really really damn good. Props.
Thanks. Keeep tuned in for updates. its kind of slow right now doing the small detailed work, but i'll post up as soon as we get something worth photographing. i'll post up when my company publishes their artist conception of the projects i am working on at work, too!
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By imgonnasnap - 5/3/2006 6:36:42 AM
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we are keeping like 35-40% of the original house.. to completely scrap it, haul it away and build new that would cost much more than we wanted. and besides, there isnt anything wrong with it structurally, or cosmetically on the inside. as it is, we've hauled off like 50 tons of scrap out off the property.
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By imgonnasnap - 5/3/2006 9:19:54 AM
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the one one the right doesnt like us, but never has, the rest love us. they think its the most interesting thing, and practically come and see what we've done each day. on a "busy day" we get like 10-15 neighbors come by to look.
we have really nice neighbors. except for that one old hag that doesnt like me riding my motorcycle up and down the street! 
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By imgonnasnap - 6/10/2006 8:37:02 AM
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Finally getting around to showing you guys some updates. We aren't building a cool retaining wall or anything, and we dont have any cool tractors or rats to show.. In all of these pics you can see the facia board, we put that up this week, along with much other stuff accomplished.
Here is the full frontal view of the house, completely sheeted, shingles are ready to put on. we put the new window in on the left, and the large window is a special order item, and will be here in a few weeks. The small doormer windows we havent gotten to.
another shot, at an angle. you can see how tall the roof is compared to the houses next to it. it really sucks to have to get on the laddor or scafolding!!!!!
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By imgonnasnap - 6/10/2006 8:37:41 AM
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you can see the windows on the side of the house. the first floor 'dows are new, we put those in this week. We will also be putting in the upper one later next week.
Back view. you can see the other side of the house, upper window. The gabel end roof (directly above the brick wall) is large enough for a bathroom size once it is all said and done. more than likely just a large closet eventually.
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By imgonnasnap - 6/10/2006 8:38:54 AM
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Back yard view, you can see the nice new garden window we put in today, and the hip in the roof. We thought there were too many gabel ends, so we threw in the hip. We should be installing the new rear door next week as well.
This is the front bedroom wall. we got the new wiring done, insulation, sheer wall(plywood), new window, and vent in today.
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By imgonnasnap - 6/11/2006 1:47:09 AM
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wow looks good man, im not gonna know which house is yours if i ever come up there again, not that i remember what your old house looked like either.
thanks. You should try to make it up here before they ship you out. there are some good bars around here.
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Originally posted by TMM
Nice, very nice. Now everybody in your neighborhood's going to be jealous.
Edited to say, NEVERMIND, I just spotted the galvanized pan under it...where'd I put them reading glasses anyway ( I put "official geezer" in my sig line for a good reason...)
good eye We have both items you mentioned. All the neighbors ARE jealous. one of them recently did a remodel of his house a few years ago, every time he comes over and see's something new, he's like "damn! thats a good idea! i should have done that"
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Very nice! You guys do good work. Wanna come to Wisconsin and give us a hand with our addition we want to do? Congrats on the great looking house!
HA! no.. sorry. we've burned outselves out on this one. WAY too much work too close to home (cant get away from it!) so we probably are not going to do any more projects for quite a while.
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You guys do some great work, you sure changed the house (whole property for that matter)! It's beautiful.
thanks. It certainly has. its funny, since we got the roof on, we've been getting a LOT more traffic than normal, and people slam on their brakes when they see the house and check it out! we live the first street off of the main street (not counting the side street and the houses on the main) so you can see our roof from the street.
One day my dad was walking our dog around the block. so he was at the end of the street and some people were driving by. they saw my dad and stopped to talk to him. they said he was doing a very nice job on the house! we had never seen these people before, so my dad was like wtf?, turns out they lived a few blocks over. so we know we are the talk of the neighborhood!
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By imgonnasnap - 3/18/2006 2:37:39 PM
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We've finally started work on the front house. pouring 14 yards for the foundation, and sidewalk in the rear.
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This is the forms for the rear portion of the house. you can see the peirs strategically located, and those gray tubes in the foreground are for the underground power to the garage and guest house, as well as telephone, satellite, and internet.
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The sidewalk and landing for the entrance. on the right is where the concrete goes, and the left side of the form will be plants and grass.
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My dad, standing next to the rotted wood, we had to replace that whole corner, from under the door to the pipes. I broke out the wood under the door and there were termites all over! and some black widows and two cockroaches. (::EW!:
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Here you can see the foundation after the forms were pulled away, and just starting to joice the floor. we finished that up today, but will post pictures later. ::exhausted!:
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By imgonnasnap - 3/19/2006 8:28:09 AM
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Here are the floor joices. unfortunately ran out of wood, so we couldnt finish, but you get the general idea.
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By imgonnasnap - 3/19/2006 1:06:11 PM
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we are pretty close to right on with our planned budget. with the garage and guest house so far was around 45k and its 99% done. Another 15k for the lumber (purchased previous ALL the lumber we wil need to finish) and concrete for the main house. so it will be another 2-5 for electrical, another 1-2k for HVAC (already bought all the parts, just ned labor to put it in), and then 10-15 for drywall and stucco. rough estimates only.
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By imgonnasnap - 5/3/2006 5:43:46 AM
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Well, It's been a long time since i've posted updates, and a lot has happened! i've been so busy, i havent been able to take pictures or resize them. but we are coming along just nicely on the main house.
While I was up in fresno for that wedding, my parents hired a crew, which they came out and completely tore all the exterior walls (stucco) and the roof off of the house. You can imagine my surprise when i came back! they didn't tell me they were going to do it!
Here is while they were doing the work, thats my dad.
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This corner will be torn out soon. where the window next to the door is, will become a door, and the corner until the white box area will disapear (there is a wall right there) and will contine that wall a few feet to the new bathroom (right)
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You can see our front window in this picture. we decided to keep the large window, its a common style here in lakewood, and we really like the large unobstructed view.
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It is kind of hard to see, you have to look past the joices, you can see that whole area below is the new kitchen. there will be a bar where that straw hat is, with a downdraft stove/grill, washing machine, and other nifty appliances we don't have now.
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By imgonnasnap - 5/3/2006 5:56:51 AM
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Here is a view from the back yard, you can see the new area of house (kitchen/master bath) as with the front the largest part of the ridge doesnt extend all the way to the end of the building. we are planing to have several large dormers on both the front and back of the house. You can also see the kitchen window and door.
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View from the front side. as I previously mentioned with the dormers, two large centered over the windows and one smaller one for the front door.
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Left front view.. no stucco anywhere! After getting it all off my dad inspected it for termite and dry rot damage. we would have surely thought that it would have been bad, but as it turns out, most of the house was done in redwood and termite damage is almost non exsistant anywhere else.
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By imgonnasnap - 5/3/2006 6:02:01 AM
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Here you can see the new meets old. old beams were not nearly large enough to support the new roof, walls, or.. us. so we now have 2x12's mated to the old, and several large 8in.x14in.x15ft. beams to support it, which you can see in the kitchen picture. The old electrical is only temperary until our electrician comes and completely replaces every wire, plug and socket in the house.
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By imgonnasnap - 12/28/2005 2:15:13 PM
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Second coat of stucco and mud for the drywall is on I''ll take pics after the paint though, because it basicly looks the same, just with more concrete.
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By imgonnasnap - 1/25/2006 4:24:41 AM
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more updates:
One of the workers working on a piece of the outside molding.
Some of the molding up in place
Inside molding, in the bathroom, since we had the tile go all the way to the top, here was our solution. we really like how it came out.
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Tile all done, you can see it well here. 18x18 pieces. it was laid in the hallway and living room. the bathroom was done with a smaller different style and the bedroom will have carpet.
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Living room shot, you can see molding, ceiling fan, throw rug.
this was originally going to be one large closet, we decided to change it at the last second. the right is a linen closet, and the left is a "kitchenette" but not really, since the city won't actually let us have a stove and whatnot.
Here is what we decided on the workshop bench table. 2 inch thick laminate wood top, we bought from home depot for 75 dollars. we thought it would be hard to beat for that price, so we bought two.
Here is a view ouside the double doors into the shop. still needs to be organized though.
new garage door!!!!! we pulled the old one out the day before, the old wood was so rotted, we had to replace both corners of the garage. the old wood was only there for decoration only, as they were so termite riddant they didnt actually touch the base/concrete.
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By imgonnasnap - 1/25/2006 10:14:17 AM
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Aha! actually, we got a new inspector, he's cool and easy on us
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By imgonnasnap - 2/17/2006 4:55:37 AM
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WE are now starting on the main house. we can't finish the back until we pour the foundation for the extra house b/c the water and gas lines will run right next to the foundation will be.
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By imgonnasnap - 2/17/2006 9:52:39 AM
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thats it
actually i was pissed off the foundation would break apart..
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By imgonnasnap - 2/18/2006 5:22:33 AM
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Originally posted by dirtsurfr
Those Bob Cats are fun to operate, I spent lota of time on them and they can do alot of work, How much did you pay to rent it??
we went to contractors warehouse and rented it for the day, and was $150... plus 80 for delivery and pick up.
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By imgonnasnap - 10/2/2005 9:54:50 AM
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So progress has been very slow since school started. but we just passed inspection for the roof, and need to add the lag bolts to the ceiling joices for the sheer wall to pass. (the architect threw that in on us!)
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As it stands now.
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attic access, its kind of narrow, but whatever.
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standing in the bedroom, you can see the livingroom. funny, its almost as big as the current house livingroom. lol
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Wide doors! we wanted easy access into this portion, for large tools, motorcycles and whatever else.
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You can see the framed section above the door. we decided this is how one would get into the garage attic. obviously the other stuff will be fixed and changed. putting it here allowed for unabstructed new-garage space, and it would be easy straight into the garage this way.
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How messy is your garage???(hmm, new topic thread?) This is only about half the stuff, the rest is in storage, or up in the current attic. it will be nice and organized when its done.
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By imgonnasnap - 10/2/2005 11:03:12 AM
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Man...this facinates me. Don't ask why...but I love watching a house go up. Even a guest house.
Lol, Well I am glad someone is following our build.
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By imgonnasnap - 10/7/2005 4:12:34 AM
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Windows, Water heaters and HVAC(heating and A/C)
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By imgonnasnap - 11/11/2005 1:55:45 AM
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updates all around, progress has been slow and tidious, having all the "small things" to deal with, various holes in walls, running conduit for satelite, phones, tvio, vent lines, doors, etc. it is nearing completion though, the stucco guys are here taking care of that. the roofer will be here soon to stack the roof for us, then the stucco guys will start drywalling.
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Stucco guys papered the house last week, and are finishing up today.
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garage side door. I dont really like so much window, but it lets in a ton of light. but this was a cheap option for the double wide door.
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Top side of all that plumbing.
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HVAC (central air) is completely done.
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sub panel for the guest house. lots of wires!!
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roof trim. its not finished yet. need the drain on the sides, and the sharp edges will get 1/4 and 1/2 slice dowels, so its rounded.
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Here is a pic of the dormer. not only for asthetics. as soon as we cut open the roof for this and opened the window, it instantly dropped the attic temperatures like 15 degrees to almost tolerable.
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Here is the inside view of it.
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By imgonnasnap - 12/23/2005 1:40:27 AM
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Nearly finished! The inspector came yesterday (wednesday, 21) and approved the drywall nailing and chicken wire for stucco, so we stucco'ed yesterday and are mudding the drywall today. He also said he wouldnt need to be out here again until final!! so our goal is to be done by newyers, the only major thing left is to do tile.
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At the last minute we changed the large common closet to two smaller ones, one will be cabinet type stuff with a microwave/mini fridge, the other will be a normal closet.
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My mom playing godzilla with the drain extension and the dog! lol!
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Since the room is so small, i had to take it from the window outside, but you can see the tub, and greenboard in place.
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Close up.
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By imgonnasnap - 12/23/2005 8:16:09 AM
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Is there chicken wire on teh outside of your house?
yeah, or whatever you want to call the wire that they put on for stucco. its all the same
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By Jeepnbeer - 8/17/2006 1:01:31 AM
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Wow !!! Nice job. 
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By TexTJ209 - 2/17/2006 5:34:54 AM
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Thats a sweet hat.
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By TexTJ209 - 2/17/2006 8:48:35 AM
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Originally posted by JM93LiftedYJ
Theres something about this picture that makes me laugh every time.
Hes constipated.
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By TexTJ209 - 2/1/2007 3:04:05 AM
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You should eat some of that, its like cotton candy.
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By NakedJeeper - 10/2/2005 12:59:24 PM
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Yup. You win the Messy Garage title.
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By jeep fu - 10/15/2006 8:51:53 AM
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Wow, what a difference! Looking at your first post, you would never, ever guess what it would look like finished. It looks great! What's the planned completion date?
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By Mike Simpson - 10/15/2006 11:08:08 PM
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Dude, i've seen bars on windows and doors, but bars / mesh on the tar paper siding, is your neighborhood that ruff????
JK, nice work, stucco looks good, and so does the whole place in general!
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By 91YEEPER - 8/16/2005 9:12:13 AM
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hey if you guys need help drinking some miller genuine water let me know.
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By 91YEEPER - 1/25/2006 10:10:48 AM
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looking good man!! glad to see paying the inspectors off to overlook things worked.
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By 91YEEPER - 6/10/2006 10:09:34 AM
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wow looks good man, im not gonna know which house is yours if i ever come up there again, not that i remember what your old house looked like either.
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By 91YEEPER - 8/17/2006 8:28:30 AM
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what the hell, you gotta wait to finish it till i come home so i can approve of everything, ok.
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By JM93LiftedYJ - 2/17/2006 8:30:58 AM
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Theres something about this picture that makes me laugh every time.
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By dirtyhall - 5/6/2007 11:35:33 AM
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Very NICE!
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By TMM - 6/11/2006 12:12:15 AM
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Nice, very nice. Now everybody in your neighborhood's going to be jealous.
Question for you: On page one, your picture of the HVAC captioned "completely installed", it's in the attic, right? If it is, you might want to install a drip pan under the A/C central unit. If the condensation line ever backs up, without that drip pan in place you'll have a potential for a lot of water damage to the adjacent walls and ceiling. They don't cost much and can be slipped under the unit without a lot of effort by one guy slightly lifting the unit up and the other sliding the plastic pan under the whole thing. Then run a second condensate line from the pan to outside the structure.
I don't know, you may have already done this, but if not, you might think about it.
Edited to say, NEVERMIND, I just spotted the galvanized pan under it...where'd I put them reading glasses anyway( I put "official geezer" in my sig line for a good reason...)
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By mike100 - 7/27/2005 8:10:32 AM
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what year was your house built, and are you doing everything or just prepping for the concrete and framing?
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By mike100 - 12/23/2005 8:28:00 AM
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yeah CW, that's how houses are made out west. Stucco has to hang off of something. Now if you look at houses made in Phoenix, they also put in styrofoam under the tar paper making the walls like a thermos since it's so damn hot out there.
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By dirtsurfr - 7/28/2005 1:01:59 AM
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I love breaking out concreete with my 12Lb hammer and pulling down walls. But I hate loading the dumpster and going to the dump. Looks good! It'll be worth it in the end...
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By dirtsurfr - 10/3/2005 12:22:49 AM
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Looking good, and that garage ain't messy, you just have to work on it some more.
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By dirtsurfr - 11/12/2005 3:55:26 AM
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Thats gonna turn out to be a really nice place.
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By dirtsurfr - 2/18/2006 4:15:49 AM
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Those Bob Cats are fun to operate, I spent lota of time on them and they can do alot of work, How much did you pay to rent it??
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By Scotty - 5/3/2006 7:57:39 AM
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How is your relationship with your neigbors at this point???
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