After a 2 1/2 hour closing meeting we are in!!! Boy that was long, but it was positive and we are getting some money back from the deal, so here's to earning the money sitting around ;)
The electrical work looks like it will be around $2000- GULP! But we will be able to lower the cost a bit, by replacing the drywall ourselves. And that is to do everything we need to do and want to do. If something else comes up we will have to cut out some wants. The electric box itself which needs to be inspected will be $900!! Needless to say my jaw dropped on that! But with the permit being $400, I guess it's understandable!
So the electrician came by today to get the list of materials. She starts tomorrow at 8 AM. Tonight I bought a light and 2 bathroom cabinets. I keep going to the house without a measuring tape!! So I had to guess on the size. One is recessed and one is not. Hopefully I eyeballed it correctly on one of them! Now I just need to find one of the two tape measures and make sure munchkins don't take it out of my purse as they are wont to do!
Depending on the cabinet that fits It was about $120 for the bathroom. I had budgeted $150, so that's good,but I as really hoping to get something off of Craigslist for waay less (like $40- like I saw but couldn't pick up). Alas we needed this so fast that Craiglist just didn't work!
I also did a FAST Ikea run. And I mean fast! After I got the kids to sleep, I drove down there and got there 15 minutes before closing. I made a fast trip into the AS-IS department and they didn't have the table I wanted, so I went tot he computer, punched in the table and wah-lah, got the location. I went to do a quick look at the light fixtures as well as pick up a cart and made it back to the line in time to have the first closing call. I also closed out Home Depot an hour later buying the cabinet and light. This is exciting to see it all happening!
I'm also hoping to get an estimate on putting a door in the laundry room to the back yard tomorrow, but it might be later. That is going to require a permit, and might be a pricey penny. However with a back door through the living room and no easy outside access from the kitchen, the garbage will have to go from the kitchen through the dining room and out the front door. Muddy kids will come in the back door through the living room and into the kitchen and then laundry room to change. We're hoping to be able to have a door go outside directly from the laundry room. It will change the configuration a bit and may limit the ability to have a Freezer, so it's all stuff to consider. Plus there are gas lines and water lines that may prevent the entire thing anyway! We will find out soon!
More tomorrow! I'm hitting the hay!
Willow
The electrical work looks like it will be around $2000- GULP! But we will be able to lower the cost a bit, by replacing the drywall ourselves. And that is to do everything we need to do and want to do. If something else comes up we will have to cut out some wants. The electric box itself which needs to be inspected will be $900!! Needless to say my jaw dropped on that! But with the permit being $400, I guess it's understandable!
So the electrician came by today to get the list of materials. She starts tomorrow at 8 AM. Tonight I bought a light and 2 bathroom cabinets. I keep going to the house without a measuring tape!! So I had to guess on the size. One is recessed and one is not. Hopefully I eyeballed it correctly on one of them! Now I just need to find one of the two tape measures and make sure munchkins don't take it out of my purse as they are wont to do!
Depending on the cabinet that fits It was about $120 for the bathroom. I had budgeted $150, so that's good,but I as really hoping to get something off of Craigslist for waay less (like $40- like I saw but couldn't pick up). Alas we needed this so fast that Craiglist just didn't work!
I also did a FAST Ikea run. And I mean fast! After I got the kids to sleep, I drove down there and got there 15 minutes before closing. I made a fast trip into the AS-IS department and they didn't have the table I wanted, so I went tot he computer, punched in the table and wah-lah, got the location. I went to do a quick look at the light fixtures as well as pick up a cart and made it back to the line in time to have the first closing call. I also closed out Home Depot an hour later buying the cabinet and light. This is exciting to see it all happening!
I'm also hoping to get an estimate on putting a door in the laundry room to the back yard tomorrow, but it might be later. That is going to require a permit, and might be a pricey penny. However with a back door through the living room and no easy outside access from the kitchen, the garbage will have to go from the kitchen through the dining room and out the front door. Muddy kids will come in the back door through the living room and into the kitchen and then laundry room to change. We're hoping to be able to have a door go outside directly from the laundry room. It will change the configuration a bit and may limit the ability to have a Freezer, so it's all stuff to consider. Plus there are gas lines and water lines that may prevent the entire thing anyway! We will find out soon!
More tomorrow! I'm hitting the hay!
Willow
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