Slab leak, now a re-decorate and repair thread.

[Lower river sludge]

Bummer that dickheads f it up for everyone else. I like to have someone I know or a friend of a friend do work just so I can hope to get things done right and not get ripped off. What I ask: do it right at a fair price, not cheap, not necessarily quick.

 

[MPHSystems]

Bummer that dickheads f it up for everyone else. I like to have someone I know or a friend of a friend do work just so I can hope to get things done right and not get ripped off. What I ask: do it right at a fair price, not cheap, not necessarily quick.

It’s just people trying to make money. The problem is they expect craftsman earnings with apprentice skillsets.


Now I’m trying to select a frame for the TV. Quality problems

 

[MPHSystems]

Someone in the ”advice for younger guys“ thread said ”always have a plan”. Well, my plan was to have the house fixed in 6 weeks starting with the remediation (thanks again joe) well that was Aug 14and the floors are going in this weekend and kitchen cabinets should be done by Oct 7 so that’s just about 8 weeks. Not bad. Your plan doesn’t have to work out exactly but you need a plan to know where you are heading. I’ve had workers in the house every weekday since Aug 14, most Saturdays and about 1/2 the Sundays. I’ve probably put in 80 hrs myself.

patio door is being replaced today. I demoed the stucco last night for the poor contractor who underbid it.

I have demmoed a lot of stucco over the years doing residential service change outs. I have used sledge hammers, electric hammers, air hammers, angle grinders, demo bars, crow bars, pry bars, and last night I said fuck it and used my demo hammer.

I learned 2 things.

1) I am not 18 anymore
2) I have been doing it wrong for 37 years. For removing stucco like this, demo hammer is the shit! I got that all done in like 1-1/2 hrs. Sore AF this morning though.

 

[JL95]

Who did you use for cabinets

 

[MPHSystems]

Who did you use for cabinets

My brother bought a cabinet shop last year. He is replacing the doors and putting in pullouts outs and euro hinges

Honestly. We wouldn’t have changed the layout and the lake face frames were perfectly good. we had the painters fill the holes and woodgrain and shoot them in lacquer. The door manufacture listed Sherwin Williams paint.

The real problem was some of the melamine was pretty rough and some of the pressboard was fairly compromised with water damage. For the melamine issues, cuts sheets of Formica and sheeted the interiors. For the damaged pressboard I had to cut sections out and fitted 7 ply birch which should last a lifetime.

it was a lot of work to save a few thousand dollars but the real savings was time. New boxes would have added a month to the project and I’d have to replace the granite tops, which we are happy with. The tops didn’t look good against the poop colored oak but in the MBath we have the same tops and they look great on white cabinets with light colored walls. I’m kinda excited about the new backsplash. We had a 1/2 splash (which is being used as a fireplace manual now) we are replacing it with a single sheet of XL format porcelain, 108” to the first grout line and I am replacing the receptacles with “plugmold” mounted under the uppers. I think it’s going to look very nice.

 

[JL95]

That should turn out nice

 

[spark2678]

We had a toilet flood while we were gone in Lake Powell last year in September. Caused almost $90K in damage, including the rental house for 2 months. Just got my renewal policy from AAA and it went from $2500/yr to $4K/yr. Not as bad as I thought to be honest. I don't think anybody else will insure us at the moment so I will just suck it up. No other claims in the 15 years I've been here.

After the fact, I did install a Moen Flo Smart Monitor System which includes the smart shutoff valve and sensors at every water location in the house except showers (toilets, sinks, water heater, washer). It had to learn my house for the first few months so it would shutoff here and there if we were in the shower, filling pool, washing cars, etc. I can see everything through the app and shutoff/turn-on the water whenever I need to.

 

[MPHSystems]

This nightmare is almost over. Floors and cabinets should be done by Monday

 

[MPHSystems]

Splash going in now!

 

[MPHSystems]

Well, the floor sealer is just about done. I did get a few photos.

Big problem for me. I really like the painting contractor and for the most part he did a very nice job, especially with the lacquer on the kitchen cabinets. Just a really nice job prepping and shooting lacquer in the wrong color. The guy asked if he could use bear on everything else and I was like: “sure, use what ever quality paint you want except the cabinets have to be Shirwin Williams alabaster 20% sheen. Well the doors were installed Saturday and I am not looking forward to this conversation, not one bit at all

I still need to

finish replacing the bathroom fixtures to ORB
Land, terminate and connect the new network cables
installl the alarm sensors
install dining room ceiling fan (once selected)
install kitchen pendants (once selected)
terminate and configure new network cables an switches
install doors and door stops
install under-sink RO purifier
select and install frame for “frame TV”
Install old Tv in MBR
Have winter out for touch up’s
install shelving in my mini-pantry

move all my crap back into this:

 

[NicPaus]

Kitchen cabinets were wrong color? Post a picture of them

 

[MPHSystems]

Kitchen cabinets were wrong color? Post a picture of them

I’ll get one tonight, can’t go in until the sealer is cured on the floors. I think the painting contractor got screwed by his sub contractor. Originally the prep work was just not right. I could see almost every screw hole and impression from the previous exposed hinges. My contractor didn’t even question it, his sup was out next day prepping and painting. My suspicion is that the didn’t have enough paint to do the job and cut the correct paint with another color… which would have been fine except for the fact that the doors are shirwin Williams alabaster 20% sheen. Stands out like a soar thumb.

This has the potential to explode, the new doors are pristine and they all have to be removed to repaint the boxes… also, can’t load up my kitchen until it’s done. We just lost a week.

 

[MPHSystems]

Kitchen cabinets were wrong color? Post a picture of them

 

[MPHSystems]

We are making serious headway but the closer the finish, the more granular the decisions become. For instance, our pots and pans are 20+ years old, we want to replace our old Circulon, which was expensive but has served us well, it’s just past its time. Any suggestions?


The painting contractor brought a rep from Sherwin Williams yesterday and SW is paying to have the cabinets repainted on Saturday. According to her, there was no tint put in the paint they sold our contractor. Father that, all that’s left if for our cabinet contractor to instal the knobs and pulls.

 

[MPHSystems]

Added some accent lighting to our little kitchen