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I like how you started every room at once ... instead of doing a room at a time
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Mar 17, 2025, 8:38 AM
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Ambitious.
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Re: I like how you started every room at once ... instead of doing a room at a time
Mar 17, 2025, 8:40 AM
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Flooring was tile and two types of prefinished hardwood. Changing the cabinet layouts meant all new floors so just do it all.
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Booger up everything at once and more motivation to get her done.***
Mar 17, 2025, 9:13 AM
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The doodoo brown on the walls is glue...
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Mar 17, 2025, 8:38 AM
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The previous owners tiled on a vinyl sheet and then glued that to the wall for their backsplash. W.T.F.
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Nice clock
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Mar 17, 2025, 8:39 AM
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So I guess you're just going to leave the ceiling like it is?
Cool.
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Yeah, I'd get rid of that stuff
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Mar 17, 2025, 8:41 AM
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looking good, sir!
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Re: Nice clock
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Mar 17, 2025, 8:42 AM
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For now, unfortunately. It will stay 80s popcorn. We're about $25k over budget so it was something that got cut.
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Re: Nice clock
Mar 17, 2025, 9:30 AM
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You can scrape and paint the ceilings without replacing them. We did that with our house. We hired someone to do it, and it didn't take them too long. It was a mess though.
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You don't like wider wood plank floors?
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Mar 17, 2025, 8:53 AM
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After having the 8"ers in my last house and real pine 9"ers in this one, I couldn't go to skinny ones again.
I think after I replace all our doors and fix the back porch, I'm going to put in 1x6 or 1x8 baseboards though and get rid of the mini ones I have (that appear to the same you had in pic 1)
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We had 2" before...
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Mar 17, 2025, 9:06 AM
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So 3-1/4 are wider, LOL.
Our interior designer didn't recommend much wider since our 80's home isn't exactly level. Flooring guys had the same opinion.
We're doing a 5+" baseboard now instead of the short ones.
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For some reason people don't like popcorn ceiling***
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Mar 17, 2025, 8:47 AM
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You need a flooring nail gun? I got one I'll sell cheap***
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Mar 17, 2025, 8:48 AM
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Eff that...
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Mar 17, 2025, 8:50 AM
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Most of the job is DIY but floors are being paid for.
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You gonna get all that popcorn off the ceiling before doing the floors?***
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Mar 17, 2025, 8:48 AM
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Hey man - get the popcorn off the ceiling!***
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Mar 17, 2025, 8:49 AM
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^^^ don't do this***
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Mar 17, 2025, 8:50 AM
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You would be the guy who likes popcorn ceilings.
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Mar 17, 2025, 8:54 AM
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Got some old brass door knobs and hinges, too?
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Cmon man
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Mar 17, 2025, 8:55 AM
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You know those hinges have three coats of sloppy paint.
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Smart folks put up 1/4" sheet rock over it.***
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Mar 17, 2025, 8:56 AM
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So then you have a 7 ft .3/4 inch clearing ceiling. That's smart.***
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Mar 17, 2025, 8:59 AM
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Theres a lot of ways I could go with mocking this.
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Mar 17, 2025, 9:01 AM
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But I’m a little speechless by your correct math here.
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1987
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Mar 17, 2025, 10:13 AM
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Back when Metro Atlanta was booming with no oversight.
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The floor panels going one direction and the ceiling panels going t'other
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Mar 17, 2025, 9:52 AM
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would drive me cuckoo bananas.
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Its MC Escher-core***
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Mar 17, 2025, 10:05 AM
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I thought about that once.
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Mar 17, 2025, 10:08 AM
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I *think* they chose that direction for the ceiling because at its widest point the house was a little bit more than 16' wide. So with the 2-3" crown molding on both sides, they could run a 16' board all the way across with no board seams. The only seams were somewhere in that hallway.
They couldn't have installed them length wise as the house was probably 40+' deep.
And I think they went that way with the floors because it was on a slab, so floor joists weren't an issue, but I guess the "standard" is parallel to the front door. Really, they could have gone either way and it wouldn't have mattered. But it was crappy LVT anyway, the installation quality wasn't the best, I never cared for the floor color, and if had have been mine I would have ripped it and put large tiles down.
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You got kicked out of a mini house
Mar 17, 2025, 10:48 AM
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The real win came from not having to live in my MIL's house
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Mar 17, 2025, 10:54 AM
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in Aynor, and piece meal together a shed sized addition for 2 years.
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I can assure you, it's not worth it***
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I see where youre coming from.
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Mar 17, 2025, 9:32 AM
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If you can live with an open septic field, you can definitely live with popcorn ceilings.
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The cholera wasn't really that bad.
Mar 17, 2025, 9:34 AM
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Turns out they wanted to lose some weight anyway.
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Re: Popcorn ceilings...
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We got 3 quotes to remove the popcorn ceilings. Ours is the type that's basically joint compound so it can't be scraped. It needs to be sanded. All 3 quotes were between $10,000 and $11,000 for just over 1,000 SF. That includes sanding, adding joint compound back to smooth it back, sanding, priming and painting. It got cut out since we're already so far over budget.
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One thing I've learned from my experience, take your budget and add
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Mar 17, 2025, 8:58 AM
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50%. That will be your actually expenditure minimum
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Facts.
Mar 17, 2025, 9:04 AM
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I had the real budget of X.
I told the wife the budget was half of X.
Still went way over. But we're likely never moving so it is what it is.
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Yeah, then, never mind
Mar 17, 2025, 8:58 AM
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our neighbors had that type. Good grief.
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Oh, wood-jah look at that. Real plywood subflooring.......
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Mar 17, 2025, 9:11 AM
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I bet the roof has real plywood sheathing, too.
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Most everything since the early 90's used OSB..and even that gets progressively thinner as the years got closer to the early 2000's, and then at least around here, they toughened up the building codes some for storms and they had to go back to at least 1/2".
Peak house building was sometime around 1966--by then they had stopped using asbestos tile on the outside, but the houses were built either on 12" or 16" centers, and used either diagonal 2x6 or 2x8's as roof sheathing on 16" centers. All the load bearing walls would be doubled up 2x4's on the corners and around windows to support the extra weight on the roof and rafters--which were usually 2x6's or 2x8's that were nailed--not stapled together.
My second house was built in 2001--and it was the cheapest made, slapped together POS I've ever seen. The garage was studded on 24" centers, and all the outside walls were sheetrock, then insulation, then Cellotex foam sheeting, and then the vinyl siding (occasionally nailed to a stud). Someone could break into that house with a utility knife. I had a pipe burst in the exterior garage wall once and it was easier to go in from the outside, because I didn't have to do any sheetrock work. I just took down the siding, cut the foam sheet, then fixed the broken pipe and replaced the wet insulation.
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I'm sammiched right in the middle of sub-par OSB subflooring and roofing
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And the dreaded 10-15yr CPVC inside plumbing.
If I were building today I'd pay extra for plywood subflooring and roofing, and use PEX for all pressurized water lines. CPVC would be ok for sewer and drains.
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Even the early Pex has showed some problems.
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Pex A has been the standard for a while, but yeah all the low pressure stuff pvc is fine.
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My parents had copper pipes from 1978 until 2018 with zero issues.
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3 houses in the hood have already flooded from cpvc busting in walls/ceilings. Going rate is about $20k in damage, PLUS replumbing the entire house.
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My mom's house was built in '74, and it's just now having some
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copper corrosion issues. About once a year a pipe starts leaking, and I'll just pay a plumber to go out and fix the pipe, then get a handy man to fix the sheetrock. She's 87, and no way I'm putting 1 penny more into that house than it absolutely requires.
She was on well water for about 25 years, so I would guess whatever minerals are in the ground water caused about 95% of the copper corrosion issues.
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Parents were city water. Makes a huge difference.
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Flushing/cleaning our hot water heater I can only do it once a year or two and be fine. Well water, every 6 months.
Mom's lake water from Lake Murray is surprisingly good, when treated. Replaced a well they had with MAJOR hard water issues. The lake water is treated with bleach and aluminum powder for softening and it tests out better than City of Columbia water for minerals, and bacteria.
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Re: I need a break from my weekend...
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I like what you've done with it. Wouldn't change a thing.
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You are insane and likely headed for a divorce
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Hope neither is true but there’s definitely a statistically likelihood that is evident by your endeavors.
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