What have you done to your house today

[mikeysgt]

Mikey that's a beautiful home man

Thanks

 

[mikeysgt]

Went to IKEA to grab a few cabinets for the extra living room/playroom. Was going to do a set of 5 and make them look like built-ins but decided on changing it up a bit. Going to do 3 centered up (got them mounted and secured to the wall already), and going to add this butcher top countertop across the top, and a slight drop down on both sides to the wall. Then going to use the leftover strips (approx 9-10” and make floating shelves with the same butcher block). Still have to stain it and cut it to size to finish it off. Ignore the mess for now haha. Paint samples on the wall were before I decided on doing this. Still have to figure out a paint scheme once the cabinet tops are done.

 

[JEWC_Motorsports]

Mike, still in Orange County? House looks great.

 

[mikeysgt]

Mike, still in Orange County? House looks great.

Kern County (Bakersfield). Just moved into this home last April. We couldn’t afford a home like this in Orange County haha

 

[JEWC_Motorsports]

Hopefully we will be back out there in October.

 

[Taco Junkie]

Had the HVAC worked on. We have a 3 zone system and zones 1 & 2 were overheating -- got up to 76 degrees and climbing. When we installed the new system in 2018 we had to replace the dampers for 1 & 2. The only one that was properly installed and working was for zone 3. Of course, now zone 3 damper failed and has to be replaced.

So $480 for parts and labor to fix it so that when zone 3 calls for heat it doesn't overheat 1 & 2 because the dampers default to open when the thermostat is satisfied. With zone 3 failure it closes and the heat has to go somewhere. I've been up in the attic to release zone 3 a couple of times while waiting for the parts.

Is your furnace modulating, single stage or two stage? A good modulating furnace will vary the amount of heat and air depending on load required whereas the others will either use a barometric type damper to dump the overload of heat back into the furnace, or the other zone dampers will be locked partially open to accept the overload.

 

[JimC]

Is your furnace modulating, single stage or two stage? A good modulating furnace will vary the amount of heat and air depending on load required whereas the others will either use a barometric type damper to dump the overload of heat back into the furnace, or the other zone dampers will be locked partially open to accept the overload.

I think that when we replaced everything it is a two stage. The dampers for the other zones were defaulting to open and the heat was flowing to those zones.

 

[06StangGT]

Did an overhaul of my ductwork last week. House was built in the early 50s. All of the supply registers were located in the center walls of the house, returns on the outer walls. With the thermostat located on a center wall, the furnace would run, immediately satisfy the thermostat and turn off, leaving an overall feeling of cold throughout the house.
Not only was the layout an issue, but the existing trunks and round pipe were way too large and not setup correctly, resulting in no static pressure and little supply to the 2nd floor. The plan was to reduce the trunk sizes and run new 6” round pipe to the outer walls as new supply vents, and use the existing supply registers as the new cold air returns. As the HVAC people will know, this will help the overall feeling throughout the house and result in slightly longer run times for the system. (Instead of on/off on/off every 5 minutes)

While taking it all down, you wouldn’t believe the amount of dust in the return vents. It literally rolled off the panning in sheets as it came down. I’ve only been in the house 3 years but I can imagine there’s never been a ductwork cleaning performed.

Decided to go with floor registers as opposed to the old wall spots, as I prefer the look of them. Used an old sears jigsaw with a handful of reverse cut blades that seemed to do the trick nicely. A little hesitant at first drilling through my hardwoods but after the 3rd one I was making record time.

Overall I’m happy with how it all came out. I’ve spray foamed the existing wall cavities (old returns)and closed them up from the basement. The house definitely feels different now, and I find myself going downstairs just to look at the new shiny duckwork.

I’m working on the drywall and replacing the moulding throughout the house now.

Overall Time: about a week of evenings and 1 full weekend day
Overall price: about $550 (got most parts at or around cost)

 

[Gabe]

Listed the house for sale, went live Thursday at 5:30 PM.
We had 8 showings yesterday, got feedback from 4 so far, 3 of those 4 are interested and at least one said will most likely do an offer.
5 more showings today and 1 so far scheduled for tomorrow.
Hoping we don't have to do this again next weekend, but we'll see.

Such a nerve-wracking time. Everybody's telling us how much money we're gonna make. Yeah ok can't wait to see it.

Still looking for a new place in North Carolina, contemplating even an apartment for a few months while the market hopefully settles down a bit.

 

[Iceman62]

All I can say is housing market here in Omaha's crazy...none of my new military troops can find anything reasonable b/c everything's selling well above market value w/ no inspection and once you make an offer...a higher one trumps yours. Betting you make some good profit $$$ on this sale.

 

[JimC]

Listed the house for sale, went live Thursday at 5:30 PM.
We had 8 showings yesterday, got feedback from 4 so far, 3 of those 4 are interested and at least one said will most likely do an offer.
5 more showings today and 1 so far scheduled for tomorrow.
Hoping we don't have to do this again next weekend, but we'll see.

Such a nerve-wracking time. Everybody's telling us how much money we're gonna make. Yeah ok can't wait to see it.

Still looking for a new place in North Carolina, contemplating even an apartment for a few months while the market hopefully settles down a bit.

The NC housing market is crazy right now. We listed our house and I was hesitant about the price. Went live Wednesday and had 7 showings right away, 4 more on Thursday and 2 on Friday. We had 5 offers with 4 over our list price. One under list significantly was an investor looking for a flip so tossed that.

It was so busy, and with 3 offers Wednesday night, we cut off showings at 1 Friday and our agent put on the MLS that all offers were due by 4 on Friday.

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[Juice]

Fixed those lose shingles I posted in the pissed off thread. Should go back there and post that 2 fucking contractors missed the missing nail near the edge on the second row. So strong winds cant pull that shit up. Want something done, do it yourself!

 

[Gabe]

We had 8 showings yesterday, up to 10 today, and 1 still for tomorrow.
Waiting on the offers. One already in the works and apparently they're looking to waive inspections.

 

[joe_momma]

Good luck! The market in TN is crazy right now, too. Lots of people leaving Cali and the northern states. TN is one of the top "one way" Uhaul destinations currently. Our agent said he likes to keep 10-12 properties listed, currently ours is the only one. We got a solid offer and they put $1k down in earnest, waiving home inspection, and got essentially full ask (actually $10k over but we pay up to $10k closing).

EDIT: to add that our agent doesn't see it slowing down for the next year, minimum.

 

[86GT351]

Good luck! The market in TN is crazy right now, too. Lots of people leaving Cali and the northern states. TN is one of the top "one way" Uhaul destinations currently. Our agent said he likes to keep 10-12 properties listed, currently ours is the only one. We got a solid offer and they put $1k down in earnest, waiving home inspection, and got essentially full ask (actually $10k over but we pay up to $10k closing).

EDIT: to add that our agent doesn't see it slowing down for the next year, minimum.

Between my last post about values a little over a week ago the average price on mine has gone up about 11K. Crazy!

 

[Gabe]

2 offers well over asking so far and we're being told to expect at least 2 more.

We had 19 showings over the last 3 days.

 

[DieHarder]

Count yourself lucky if you're moving since we're at the top of the market right now. However, that also means you're buying at the top of the market unless you can wait/rent for awhile until things change and buy later when things settle down a bit. No one's paying attention to fundamentals. My real estate agent just shakes his head when asked about this market. "Craziest thing I've ever seen. Great, but crazy." "It'll fall. And when it does it's going to hurt."

 

[Gabe]

Count yourself lucky if you're moving since we're at the top of the market right now. However, that also means you're buying at the top of the market unless you can wait/rent for awhile until things change and buy later when things settle down a bit. No one's paying attention to fundamentals. My real estate agent just shakes his head when asked about this market. "Craziest thing I've ever seen. Great, but crazy." "It'll fall. And when it does it's going to hurt."

We ended up with 3 offers, all over asking.
The highest one was the best one on several levels. Tons of cash down, no inspection, etc
Accepted and looking for our next home.
Going to NC this weekend to look at places with the realtor.
Might end up renting for a few months, even if it's an apartment. We'll see.