Day 10 Remodeling Update - The 2 unavoidable setbacks

What's up you guys? It's going here, so I figured I would make a very quick update video and share with you guys all the work that's being done in this place. A lot has gotten done over the last week and a half that this has been going on.

As you can see, the first thing I started to do is add in a recessed light up on the ceiling. I'm adding in six to the living room. As we go into the dining room, we got four more in the dining room, plus I'm going to be able to put in like a little chandelier here in the center. Then, the biggest progress so far has been in the kitchen. This whole thing has been completely opened up.

We just started to put in the base for the pilot to go into. We also began replacing all the drywall around the sink area, and then we're going to be framing off this door a little bit to be able to put in more cabinetry here. Let me show you guys throughout the hallway. So again, we're smoothing out your feelings in the hallway, and we're going to be putting in some more recent lighting.

Now, check this out. In the bathroom, we're just starting to put in the tile here. If you win with subway tile in the back, I'm going to be doing the cool thing at the bottom of the shower. Going to be doing another really cool expanded tile thing on the bottom of this bathroom, and then I got the cool vanity going in here with toilet.

Check out the bedroom. The bedroom is a world of difference when you put in French doors. So we have two French doors going in here right now; they open inward, and I wasn't really happy with that. They're going to be switching these out and having them open outward.

It's a small bedroom, and I'm afraid if they start to open inward, it's really going to cut out a lot of the space in the room. So these are going to be opening outward. Another really cool thing that we added in are these split AC units. We added one in the bedroom, and by the way, these things work wonders.

These are probably one of the coolest inventions I think ever. If you don't want to install like huge expensive AC units, these split units are pretty much just as good and they're a fraction of the price. Put in another one here in the dining room.

Now, as far as renovations are concerned, I've learned two things from every single place ever, Mom. The first is that it takes a lot longer than what you expect, and the second is that it takes much more money than you expect. And here are some examples.

First of all, we should be honestly a little bit further along than we are, but as we get into it, we realize more things need to be done than originally anticipated. So let me first start by taking you to the bathroom here, and this is something that should really only take about a week or so.

But when we got into it, we realized that all the plumbing behind the shower in the bathroom— all of it was almost completely original and completely falling apart. So once you go and get into some of these things, you have to then realize, like, I got to replace all of that.

And it's better to replace it now before it gets worse, and you tile over it and you do all the other sort of stuff. You get it perfect, and then you realize you have to tear it all back out just to correct some of the things that you should have done from the beginning.

Not only that, but we realized as we went in and started doing some of the plumbing work underneath the house, the main line going to the sewer line was completely corroded. Now, this is something I had done in my inspections, and yes, it was uncovered, but we didn't think it was as bad as what it was when we really got down there.

So I had to replace the entire main line going from the house to the sewer line, so that's an extra two thousand dollars. And then I got the bathroom, and that's an extra, like, thousand dollars to replace all the plumbing in the bathroom and some more underneath the house.

It just... it always— every single project is going to be more expensive than what you originally anticipated. So what I recommend on any renovation budget, you almost have to expect and add on in your mind an extra like 10 to 15% minimum from what you think it will be to what it's actually going to be.

Because I promise you, every single renovation is going to be something else. Another example is the bathroom window. That's a great window; it works fine, but at the same time, if I ever want to replace it in the future, it's going to be a lot more difficult to do it in the future when all the tile and everything gets done than to do it right now.

So I figured it's probably better to do a lot of these things now, or occurs here and everything's like, look, it's kind of like crap, than it is to get the place perfect and in a year or two down the line end up doing all of these things anyway because it should have been done from the beginning.

So anyway, that's so far the update. Oh, and then we also got in the front— much if you could see a little bit of the fence put it right there. So I'm going to be saving the landscaping probably last. I want to wait until like it's completely finished, and then I'll show you guys.

It's going to look really cool though, and that way it's like it looks a lot more impressive when you see like the before and then you see the after than like all the crap it goes on in between. Because for landscaping, it's not too exciting from what you see in terms of like all the progression. So I'll show you guys that at the very end when all of it's done.

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