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Originally Posted by Skid Row Joe
I like it! A lot of time sweat equity spent is worthwhile especially for a family man. My hat's off to you for taking a chance on a home that old!
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Thanks. I got a hell of a deal on the property. It's actually a lot and a half, which means I'm the only one in the neighborhood with a driveway. The PO bought it in '04 for $46k, and took a job out west and needed to unload it. I offered $29k and he jumped on it. Since we got it so cheap, I was able to pay cash for it. Knowing that the other properties in the neighborhood that are on the market are going in the mid 40's and up, I think we got a really great deal. Everything we put into it, we'll get out of it in the future if we ever sell it. None of the improvements we're doing are over building the house.
The next project on the list is making the large dining room into an eat in kitchen, and turning the existing small kitchen into a first floor bathroom with the laundry room in it. Currently, the laundry room is in the enclosed porch/mud room. It used to be in the basement, but the basement has NO head clearance at all, so the PO moved it to the porch. The house was built in a time that the kitchen was only for cooking food, and the dining room was an area to congregate. Well, times have changed, and I NEED a larger kitchen to be able to create my meals.
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Originally Posted by teezer
and for the finishing touch, install a thunderhead shower head ~~~ best under $100 i've spent, and a year later i'm still smiling ~~~ and it's Cosmo Kramer approved !
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We went for the double head fixture. I'm not concerned about lack of water pressure here. As a matter of fact, I had to have a pressure reducer installed right after the meter. I live 2 blocks below twin water towers. The pressure is so great here, that it was blowing out the old plumbing. I had to pay $1500 for new lines in the kitchen and bathroom because the crappy solders the previous owner had done couldn't handle the 115 psi that was coming in. Apparently, since the addition of the second water tower last fall, most of the neighborhood has had to have the reducers installed. I removed the reducer plug from the stationary shower head, but kept it in the wand head.
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Originally Posted by Skid Row Joe
The cheap, loud ones have no drawing power, and will let the place smell up. I bought the ultra-quiet, high priced, high CFM ones for my home.
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This is the fan I installed. We shopped around for a few weeks 'til we found it. We wanted ultra quiet because with the 10 foot tall ceilings, there will be a great amount of echo, which intensifies the noise from the fan.
As for the other noise, $hit happens...LOL
Here's one of the selling points that my wife and I fell in love with...original 111 year old, unpainted woodwork.
