Anyone Try to Build or Remodel anything lately $$$$

a reply to: Bigburgh

Have you checked with the local Better Business Bureau on their ratings? My sister checked through them and I looked through Angie's list really.

Yes I actually did and this company is outstanding. They've been doing the same thing here for 30 years.
We also are an open records state so you can see if anyone has sued the companies that work for you. That is a lot more eye opening than ratings most of the time. They are overpriced, but I think it is because they are that good that people will pay it.

a reply to: JAGStorm
Redoing living room. Did floors and fireplace, and in process of building a mantel. Went and bought a premium 1x8x10 piece of pine today for the top of the mantel. $34, but had to pick through the wood just to find a straight one without a lot of knots. Fun times were had by all.

originally posted by: igloo
a reply to: JAGStorm

I remember someone talking about collecting antique furniture and thought it might have been you. Can't remember but I've seen some pictures of amazing vanities built with smaller antiques, like sideboards, dressers with a nice sink put in or on them. Could be unique and often they are just a couple hundred bucks and in excellent condition. Depends on the look desired.

That's me!! Actually what I have in there right now is something akin to an antique sideboard. It looks fantastic, the problem it is absolutley nasty to clean.
That bathroom is the main bathroom guests use when they come over, so it gets used a lot. It has a lot of swirls and moulding.
I don't mean to be gross, but also guys seem to be unable to aim properly and there are parts that are decoratively carved that seem to collect urine. Guess who gets to clean that.😭 The top is a marble, and again, the absolute worst material for a much used bathroom.
I'm not into a super modern designs but I think in this instance it would be a better fit for the area.

a reply to: JAGStorm

C'mon, JAG...It's only $420 per SF! **THUD!**

...which is about 4x the cost of new home construction! Heck, kitchens are only about $3-500/SF.

originally posted by: Flyingclaydisk
a reply to: JAGStorm

C'mon, JAG...It's only $420 per SF! **THUD!**

...which is about 4x the cost of new home construction! Heck, kitchens are only about $3-500/SF.

Where I live new construction is going for $300+ sq ft conservatively for the most bottom of the barrel basic new home.

This is not a good area but still in the general Milwaukee metro area, look at the price!
www.realtor.com...
$564,900
Est.
3
bed
2.5
bath
2,090sqft
2,090 square feet
0.35acre lot
0.35 acre lot
7748 W Oakwood Way, Franklin, WI 53132
Property Type
Single Family
Time on realtor.com
2 Days
Price per sqftPrice per square feet
$270
Garage
3 cars
Year Built

I am still a licensed residential builder in Michigan, I have kept renewing my license even though I haven't done any work for many years now because of my epilepsy. I built a sixteen by twenty addition on a house back in early 2000, plus sided the whole house to match along with aluminum soffit and facia and wrapping all the windows for around thirteen grand complete. It included a Warm Rain Tub/shower unit, but the homeowner put in the plumbing and electrical in the addition and he had someone else drywall and put in the flooring. It cost him about seventeen grand all together.

Yeah, it is a little nuts what they want these days. If I was doing it now, I would probably have to charge about fifty grand for a twenty by twenty addition with a bathroom complete, with about fifteen grand of that going to the electrical, plumbing, and heating contractors. The carpeting and vinyl floor not included in that price.

The last house I built was forty feet wide and sixty feet long with lots of tilework and a gas stone fireplace, that cost the guy about two hundred grand total, including the water to the house and the septic system and of course an eight inch poured concrete foundation with insulation. It also had an attached three car garage on it It had a sauna and a big hot tub in the bathroom along with a four foot shower, tile half way up the wall.

a reply to: rickymouse

It cost him about seventeen grand all together.

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a reply to: JAGStorm

There's a place where salvaged articles sold from buildings that have been torn down or renovated near by. This isn't junk and their prices are pretty good. We just got two exterior doors from there for about $75 each. I was able to take them into work and cut them to size. I'd check and see if there's something like it in your area. Both doors are hardwood, not cored. All we had to do was paint them and hang them.

This is where I went. cjreuse.org...

Bigburgh might know of it.

Im towards the end of a small bathroom overhaul. Bought mid range walk in shower toilet and sink. Will be about $2500 doing it myself. New vinyl floor that we love because it's WARM!!

originally posted by: mikell
Im towards the end of a small bathroom overhaul. Bought mid range walk in shower toilet and sink. Will be about $2500 doing it myself. New vinyl floor that we love because it's WARM!!

We have vinyl and I know it's not the most luxurious floor for a bathroom, but it has to be one of the absolute best.
Ours looks brand spanking new and they are old. I'm thinking about replacing it with just a more updated style.

I'm also thinking ceramic with heated flooring (had that in another house) but I know it's a pain when they start cracking, and they do!

originally posted by: JAGStorm

originally posted by: igloo
a reply to: JAGStorm

I remember someone talking about collecting antique furniture and thought it might have been you. Can't remember but I've seen some pictures of amazing vanities built with smaller antiques, like sideboards, dressers with a nice sink put in or on them. Could be unique and often they are just a couple hundred bucks and in excellent condition. Depends on the look desired.

That's me!! Actually what I have in there right now is something akin to an antique sideboard. It looks fantastic, the problem it is absolutley nasty to clean.
That bathroom is the main bathroom guests use when they come over, so it gets used a lot. It has a lot of swirls and moulding.
I don't mean to be gross, but also guys seem to be unable to aim properly and there are parts that are decoratively carved that seem to collect urine. Guess who gets to clean that.😭 The top is a marble, and again, the absolute worst material for a much used bathroom.
I'm not into a super modern designs but I think in this instance it would be a better fit for the area.

Was you, awesome! I'm a fiend for collecting antique furniture, literally no more room in my house. Can't resist a deal, lol.

I see your point in this case. I was thinking guest bathroom as token gesture, barely used. For reasons of aim as you stated, I was totally grossed out by the plumbing style of a few years back where the toilets had "intestines" showing on the outside of the ceramic. Was so glad smooth ones were in style again and available when it came time to finish the bathroom!

I just hired a heating contractor to put in a new furnace, switching from oil to propane. It was about sixty six hundred bucks including the ten year labor extra warrantee from the furnace manufacturer. The ten year parts warantee was free with the furnace. So I paid an extra four hundred fifty for the labor part in that price.

He told me two years ago it would have been two grand cheaper, almost all of that increase was in materials, his labor went up very little because of the pandemic. I should have done this two years ago I guess, I was going to do it a year and a half ago but the pandemic hit.

My granddaughter decided she wanted to side her house last summer, I told her to wait because all the materials had gone way up, hopefully next year things will go down a bit, paying double for materials is stupid when you can wait a year and even with high inflation the price will be down quite a bit.

The conspiracy theorist in me suspects, TPTB wants to eliminate our current forms of construction and create "green buildings and homes" first step destroy the current homebuilding methods and industry and create a new one. With more modular homes, less natural wood, more recyclable materials, more efficient plumbing, and electricity.

I know we are being hit with new building regulations, I don't mind the swapping out of one technology for another, but usually it's because the new version is cheaper and more efficient. We aren't there yet....

www.hud.gov...

www.hud.gov...

a reply to: JAGStorm

Gotta wonder how all that crap happens

Allowing the ports to complicate and backlog stuff that was already paid for before loading onto a ship left unaddressed, and corrective measures put in place, this will continue.

Those ships anchored waiting to be offloaded are carrying last quarter's transactions, further back even is not illogical.

It's a manufactured crisis in need of correction.
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a reply to: JAGStorm

Then the WOOD shortage is real. Da da daaaaaaaaaa

a reply to: JIMC5499

No, no I do not.

a reply to: JAGStorm
Unless you really, really need it, extra room that is, be satisfied with what you've got. Improvise if you have to because any building or improvements will cost you more than it's worth.
Materials have shot through the roof (no pun intended) not through shortages but purely greed and therefore the tradesmen are passing the extra pricing onto the customer.
The more people refuse to pay their inflated prices the sooner the knock on effect reaches the suppliers and they will have to drop their prices.

originally posted by: crayzeed
a reply to: JAGStorm
Unless you really, really need it, extra room that is, be satisfied with what you've got. Improvise if you have to because any building or improvements will cost you more than it's worth.
Materials have shot through the roof (no pun intended) not through shortages but purely greed and therefore the tradesmen are passing the extra pricing onto the customer.
The more people refuse to pay their inflated prices the sooner the knock on effect reaches the suppliers and they will have to drop their prices.

We are holding off on the addition, but the bathroom needs to be dealt with now.

I do agree it's greed and now they figured out people will pay more for home improvements.
We'll see if they ever come down.

originally posted by: putnam6
The conspiracy theorist in me suspects, TPTB wants to eliminate our current forms of construction and create "green buildings and homes" first step destroy the current homebuilding methods and industry and create a new one. With more modular homes, less natural wood, more recyclable materials, more efficient plumbing, and electricity.

I know we are being hit with new building regulations, I don't mind the swapping out of one technology for another, but usually it's because the new version is cheaper and more efficient. We aren't there yet....

www.hud.gov...

www.hud.gov...

thats not all they want to eliminate. The real goal is the elimination of the middle class.

I feel bad for all my friends who just bought houses. They fomo'd in at the peak of the market. I'm waiting for the crash before buying anything in the US. Got a feeling it's coming real soon, with the ole everything bubble we are in and all.