Re: Any ideas for a guy buying fixer-upper house t

Posted by pete's dream on September 01, 2004 at 12:13:29 from (209.240.205.61):

In Reply to: Any ideas for a guy buying fixer-upper house to re posted by Bryan on September 01, 2004 at 09:31:56:

I have completly gutted several houses and I have patched or repaired many. First Big Thing. If the house is for resale Put your money where you see it. Once you determine if the elec., plumbing, heating, etc. are acceptable then take a hard look as to the gutting aspect. It is much more cost effective to repair walls than to replace the walls, trim, doors windows. A few buckets of rock mud and some wall board will go a long way to getting your walls back into class A shape. You will want to keep in mind that you do not want to mismatch the trim style of the house. If the house has 6 panel Yellow pine doors you do not want to replace one with a flat slab plastic door. This is just an example. Money spent on baths and kitchens is well spent and don't have to be all that expensive if you watch what you are doing. Hard wood floors area good thing as many homebuyers are shying away from carpet and if you do in yourself hardwood is no more costly than carpet. If you do decide to gut the house determine if the existing flooring will be saved or not as you will want to protect them if you are going to save them. Sanding and refinishing old hardwood and pine flooling is cheap if you discount the labor. Determine how much of the work you will have to farm out as hireing all the work done will quickly make one of these projects cost prohibitive. Another area of concern is disposal of materials. It is getting hard to get a dumpster at a old residential site around here. Hope you have fun and make a mint.

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