- Luxury vinyl planks
- 1230 sq ft
- Installation
- Removal of existing floor (shitty carpet, small patch of laminate and linoleum that she said they could floor over)
- Luxury vinyl planks
- 1230 sq ft
- Installation
- Removal of existing floor (shitty carpet, small patch of laminate and linoleum that she said they could floor over)
$9600
That's within reason. I think about half of that is labor; vinyl planks aren't that hard to install DIY, and the removal of the existing floor could also be done by you. On the other hand, avoiding backbreaking labor is worth money. It's up to you how much money it's worth. (You can also go down a step in quality on the materials to shave a thousand or two off.)
- Luxury vinyl planks
- 1230 sq ft
- Installation
- Removal of existing floor (shitty carpet, small patch of laminate and linoleum that she said they could floor over)
$9600
That seems pretty high to me. What's the pricing on the planks? You can get pretty good planks for $3/sq ft, or very good planks for $4-5/sq ft.
- Luxury vinyl planks
- 1230 sq ft
- Installation
- Removal of existing floor (shitty carpet, small patch of laminate and linoleum that she said they could floor over)
$9600
That seems pretty high to me. What's the pricing on the planks? You can get pretty good planks for $3/sq ft, or very good planks for $4-5/sq ft.
There's also installation and demo of existing carpet, plus from earlier in the thread I think SeñorAmor went for the good stuff. There's a profit margin there, but it's not as big as you might think.
I meant more that some floor companies I've heard of go ridiculously high on the sq ft price like $10+ for what is the exact same quality as stuff half the price. But at the same time if it's priced appropriately, $4k+ in labor also seems high for what is essentially a job that shouldn't take more than a day or day and a half for pros. And you're right, LVP is pretty easy to DIY, if he's halfway handy he could probably knock that out in a weekend with help from a buddy (depending on how many rooms your doing. More rooms = more cutting).
- Luxury vinyl planks
- 1230 sq ft
- Installation
- Removal of existing floor (shitty carpet, small patch of laminate and linoleum that she said they could floor over)
$9600
Incredibly close to what my wife and I were quoted for some nice vinyl planks for about 1400 sqft. Most of it was labor, including install of 1/4 round and moving furniture around as they worked.
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ShadowfireVermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered Userregular
The windows look great. But blinds are expensive too! To get some blackout blinds that would fit our windows will cost like $120+ on the lowest end.
Fun stuff of ownership - we had an attic fire in March and are having fun with our adjuster negotiating with the insurance company for dwelling and contents - don't skimp on the homeowners insurance!
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Donovan PuppyfuckerA dagger in the dark isworth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered Userregular
- Luxury vinyl planks
- 1230 sq ft
- Installation
- Removal of existing floor (shitty carpet, small patch of laminate and linoleum that she said they could floor over)
$9600
Incredibly close to what my wife and I were quoted for some nice vinyl planks for about 1400 sqft. Most of it was labor, including install of 1/4 round and moving furniture around as they worked.
Shit, for ~$10k I'd want proper skirting boards, not quarter round.
- Luxury vinyl planks
- 1230 sq ft
- Installation
- Removal of existing floor (shitty carpet, small patch of laminate and linoleum that she said they could floor over)
$9600
Incredibly close to what my wife and I were quoted for some nice vinyl planks for about 1400 sqft. Most of it was labor, including install of 1/4 round and moving furniture around as they worked.
Shit, for ~$10k I'd want proper skirting boards, not quarter round.
I'm guessing there was already baseboard (which i think is the same thing as skirting board) that they were not uninstalling or reinstalling. The 1/4 round is just there to disguise the gaps between the baseboard and flooring, since floors and baseboards are rarely perfectly flat/parallel.
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Whee. A house came up on the search a realtor set up for me this morning, looked just about perfect. I'd set up time to go looking at houses with the realtor this Saturday morning, so I added that one to the list.
The house went contingent like 8 hours after it was listed. -_-
Whee. A house came up on the search a realtor set up for me this morning, looked just about perfect. I'd set up time to go looking at houses with the realtor this Saturday morning, so I added that one to the list.
The house went contingent like 8 hours after it was listed. -_-
That's how our market is right now, too. A neighbor down the street just put their place up and only had a single weekend of open house. Ended up with multiple offers well in excess of of their asking, and the sign was back down this week. Blew my mind. I hope it is that easy if we have to sell, but I feel for buyers. It's gotta be emotionally draining.
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Whee. A house came up on the search a realtor set up for me this morning, looked just about perfect. I'd set up time to go looking at houses with the realtor this Saturday morning, so I added that one to the list.
The house went contingent like 8 hours after it was listed. -_-
That’s how we got our house; Mrs. Facepunch would say she liked it whenever we drove by and one day on the way home for lunch I noticed there was a for sale sign. I called a realtor and went contingent that evening. The house hadn’t even hit MLS yet when we settled on a price.
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KetarCome on upstairswe're having a partyRegistered Userregular
Whee. A house came up on the search a realtor set up for me this morning, looked just about perfect. I'd set up time to go looking at houses with the realtor this Saturday morning, so I added that one to the list.
The house went contingent like 8 hours after it was listed. -_-
We saw one that my wife loved that had just had a large price reduction. There were a couple other good possibilities though (we had seen 13 houses that day) and we needed to talk a bit.
The house changed listing to Pending 2 hours later.
There were a few that I'd save on Zillow for us to see as soon as my wife had time off from work that would get offered on in the meantime. Usually anything with a price remotely resembling a bargain, of course. Thankfully we have 3 strong options and 2-3 second-tier options right now. None are perfect enough to make the decision easy - all are good but have some compromise of either location or desired qualities to them. So we're taking our time now to check out the neighborhoods, shopping, drive times and all that and make sure we're making a choice we'll have no regrets over.
Whee. A house came up on the search a realtor set up for me this morning, looked just about perfect. I'd set up time to go looking at houses with the realtor this Saturday morning, so I added that one to the list.
The house went contingent like 8 hours after it was listed. -_-
That’s how we got our house; Mrs. Facepunch would say she liked it whenever we drove by and one day on the way home for lunch I noticed there was a for sale sign. I called a realtor and went contingent that evening. The house hadn’t even hit MLS yet when we settled on a price.
Something similar here - we saw the house go on the market that day, and we were planning on going house viewing that evening, so I called the realtor and added it to the list. We saw it and fell in love, and we agreed that the house wasn't going to be on the market long - so we put in an offer on it that night.
If your local market is hot, houses will move fast.
Whee. A house came up on the search a realtor set up for me this morning, looked just about perfect. I'd set up time to go looking at houses with the realtor this Saturday morning, so I added that one to the list.
The house went contingent like 8 hours after it was listed. -_-
That’s how we got our house; Mrs. Facepunch would say she liked it whenever we drove by and one day on the way home for lunch I noticed there was a for sale sign. I called a realtor and went contingent that evening. The house hadn’t even hit MLS yet when we settled on a price.
Something similar here - we saw the house go on the market that day, and we were planning on going house viewing that evening, so I called the realtor and added it to the list. We saw it and fell in love, and we agreed that the house wasn't going to be on the market long - so we put in an offer on it that night.
If your local market is hot, houses will move fast.
In Asheville it's quite common for houses to go for 10s of thousands over asking with contracts being signed sight unseen. I managed to avoid the major pitfalls of this market but it continues to be utterly cutthroat.
I'm really worried that the mortgage market will start to follow the housing market soon, and we'll be back on the precipice of 2008. I mean I hope we don't get there, but certainly in many many (many) markets, the temperature of the housing market has gone way up in the past two years.
"Luckily" for us, we have a fixed rate mortgage and are planning to stay in this house at least another 10 years. We'll re-evaluate once the youngest hits college, but I really like this place.
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That_GuyI don't wanna be that guyRegistered Userregular
I'm really worried that the mortgage market will start to follow the housing market soon, and we'll be back on the precipice of 2008. I mean I hope we don't get there, but certainly in many many (many) markets, the temperature of the housing market has gone way up in the past two years.
"Luckily" for us, we have a fixed rate mortgage and are planning to stay in this house at least another 10 years. We'll re-evaluate once the youngest hits college, but I really like this place.
I made sure my mortgage was fixed rate too. Those 0 down USDA loans are pretty sweet.
I'm really worried that the mortgage market will start to follow the housing market soon, and we'll be back on the precipice of 2008. I mean I hope we don't get there, but certainly in many many (many) markets, the temperature of the housing market has gone way up in the past two years.
"Luckily" for us, we have a fixed rate mortgage and are planning to stay in this house at least another 10 years. We'll re-evaluate once the youngest hits college, but I really like this place.
I honestly fantasize about selling right before a crash, collecting the overage, renting until the crash bottoms out, then buying into a nicer area. Sadly, a) I'll never time something that perfectly intentionally and b) I don't think we're actually going to crash/bubble here - I think the Pacific Northwest is just a stupidly popular place to move right now and as long as everyone is bathing in their McDucklike pools of Silicon Valley 2.0 stock vestings, it makes no sense to do anything but shelter in place.
Not blackout, but they went in super easy, no strings/cords to deal with, and their quality appear to be fine at a very low price for window treatments. They're not custom cut, but if there's a size that fits your window frame you might give them a look.
I'm really worried that the mortgage market will start to follow the housing market soon, and we'll be back on the precipice of 2008. I mean I hope we don't get there, but certainly in many many (many) markets, the temperature of the housing market has gone way up in the past two years.
"Luckily" for us, we have a fixed rate mortgage and are planning to stay in this house at least another 10 years. We'll re-evaluate once the youngest hits college, but I really like this place.
Eh, I think there is a strong chance for a price correction, but I don’t expect a financial crisis to come from it.
The difference this time is due diligence to ensure buyers can actually afford the crazy prices. Last time there was both high loan amounts and tremendously shitty documentation- like unverified “stated income” (less shady lenders would ask for proof if you said you made over a limit, or your job and income seemed not to match, but plenty of others just let you add as many zeros as you wanted to the end of the number with no proof), appraisers collaborating with brokers/lenders, etc.
So a correction makes home prices level off (or decline)- current owners should be able to continue to pay, while prices are less unaffordable for others, opening up a larger customer base for lenders.
Appraisers are definitely still collaborating with brokers/lenders in a bunch of places.
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AbsoluteZeroThe new film by Quentin KoopantinoRegistered Userregular
We made an offer on our house the same day it hit the market. As did 8 other people. It's nuts how fast houses can go.
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ShadowfireVermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered Userregular
Not blackout, but they went in super easy, no strings/cords to deal with, and their quality appear to be fine at a very low price for window treatments. They're not custom cut, but if there's a size that fits your window frame you might give them a look.
I just moved into a new apartment and for various reasons I'm looking into cellular blinds. Why are they so expensive? My windows are pretty big (46.5" x ~ 60"), but still. I basically want the ability to have like a privacy screen sometimes and black out other times. Cheapest I've seen is like $250/window. Am I missing something?
We got ours from blinds.ca (blinds.com is the US version); "Bali" cellular blackout blinds for a 45x60 window would be CDN$177 = USD 131. (we actually got double-cell non-blackout ones, for insulation rather than darkness, but the overall buying and installing experience was great).
The company that does my neighborhoods’ recycling put stickers on everyone’s cans asking they’d appreciate people no longer using trash bags as they only impede sorting.
But I can’t think of a good way of moving my recycling to the outdoor bin that doesn’t involve some stuff eventually leaking to the bottom from various cans and jars.
We have a separate trash can (with bag) in the house for recyclables. We just dump the can into our recycle bin when it gets full. Once the bag gets sufficiently bad, the bag itself goes in the trash. We also rinse most containers that end up in that can, so the bag rarely needs replacing.
I guess you could use paper that's going in the recycle to soak up drips, but the bag is a bit of a cleaner solution.
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That_GuyI don't wanna be that guyRegistered Userregular
Meanwhile the recycling company serving my neighborhood will ONLY take recycling if it's in a blue plastic bag. I used to leave the recycling bin out front but was confused at why they didn't empty it. Sometimes they would just pick through it and other times they'd take nothing at all. I couldn't figure it out until I talked to one of my neighbors. They also don't recycle much. All they seem to want is paper, metal and glass. They won't even recycle PET.
The company that does my neighborhoods’ recycling put stickers on everyone’s cans asking they’d appreciate people no longer using trash bags as they only impede sorting.
But I can’t think of a good way of moving my recycling to the outdoor bin that doesn’t involve some stuff eventually leaking to the bottom from various cans and jars.
Fun fact: recycling that has food residue or other 'stuff' still on it that could leak down and get gross usually gets sorted directly to the trash/landfill anyway. Your best path forward would be to start rinsing them clean enough to put in an unlined can that you empty into your recycling bin as needed.
The in and outs of recycling in the US are pretty depressing, but that's another thread.
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KetarCome on upstairswe're having a partyRegistered Userregular
The company that does my neighborhoods’ recycling put stickers on everyone’s cans asking they’d appreciate people no longer using trash bags as they only impede sorting.
But I can’t think of a good way of moving my recycling to the outdoor bin that doesn’t involve some stuff eventually leaking to the bottom from various cans and jars.
We use either paper grocery bags or empty cardboard boxes from Amazon packages to collect our recycling, and just take it straight to the bin like that. If using a box, we empty it into the bin and then break it down.
We've never had any problems with drips or leaks doing it that way, but we do let plastic dry in the dish rack after cleaning it and make sure to shake out as much water as possible from cans or bottles after rinsing them. Placing paper or cardboard to be recycled at the bottom of whatever bag or box helps too.
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Donovan PuppyfuckerA dagger in the dark isworth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered Userregular
Yeah you gotta clean the stuff you put in your recycling bin or it goes straight in the regular rubbish.
Yeah you gotta clean the stuff you put in your recycling bin or it goes straight in the regular rubbish.
(basically everything goes in the regular trash now rip china recycling)
Yeah here in Australia all the recycling companies shuttered their facilities and just shipped it all offshore, and now we have fuck-all recycling capabilities.
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I'll check them out. I would think materials are at most $20, and even 1 hr of labor to custom cut & assemble doesn't get me to $200.
We love em and they're pretty cheap: https://www.lowes.com/pl/Cellular--Window-shades-Blinds-window-shades-Blinds-window-treatments-Home-decor/4294856885?refinement=4294964464,1440975724
These are more shades, so it's all or nothing. Wife just put sheer curtains in front.
We went through this ourselves recently - it cost $3100 for 14 windows to be treated with custom installs, so about $220/window.
- Luxury vinyl planks
- 1230 sq ft
- Installation
- Removal of existing floor (shitty carpet, small patch of laminate and linoleum that she said they could floor over)
$9600
That's within reason. I think about half of that is labor; vinyl planks aren't that hard to install DIY, and the removal of the existing floor could also be done by you. On the other hand, avoiding backbreaking labor is worth money. It's up to you how much money it's worth. (You can also go down a step in quality on the materials to shave a thousand or two off.)
That seems pretty high to me. What's the pricing on the planks? You can get pretty good planks for $3/sq ft, or very good planks for $4-5/sq ft.
There's also installation and demo of existing carpet, plus from earlier in the thread I think SeñorAmor went for the good stuff. There's a profit margin there, but it's not as big as you might think.
Incredibly close to what my wife and I were quoted for some nice vinyl planks for about 1400 sqft. Most of it was labor, including install of 1/4 round and moving furniture around as they worked.
Having nonstandard windows is expensive as hell.
Shit, for ~$10k I'd want proper skirting boards, not quarter round.
I'm guessing there was already baseboard (which i think is the same thing as skirting board) that they were not uninstalling or reinstalling. The 1/4 round is just there to disguise the gaps between the baseboard and flooring, since floors and baseboards are rarely perfectly flat/parallel.
The house went contingent like 8 hours after it was listed. -_-
That's how our market is right now, too. A neighbor down the street just put their place up and only had a single weekend of open house. Ended up with multiple offers well in excess of of their asking, and the sign was back down this week. Blew my mind. I hope it is that easy if we have to sell, but I feel for buyers. It's gotta be emotionally draining.
That’s how we got our house; Mrs. Facepunch would say she liked it whenever we drove by and one day on the way home for lunch I noticed there was a for sale sign. I called a realtor and went contingent that evening. The house hadn’t even hit MLS yet when we settled on a price.
We saw one that my wife loved that had just had a large price reduction. There were a couple other good possibilities though (we had seen 13 houses that day) and we needed to talk a bit.
The house changed listing to Pending 2 hours later.
There were a few that I'd save on Zillow for us to see as soon as my wife had time off from work that would get offered on in the meantime. Usually anything with a price remotely resembling a bargain, of course. Thankfully we have 3 strong options and 2-3 second-tier options right now. None are perfect enough to make the decision easy - all are good but have some compromise of either location or desired qualities to them. So we're taking our time now to check out the neighborhoods, shopping, drive times and all that and make sure we're making a choice we'll have no regrets over.
Something similar here - we saw the house go on the market that day, and we were planning on going house viewing that evening, so I called the realtor and added it to the list. We saw it and fell in love, and we agreed that the house wasn't going to be on the market long - so we put in an offer on it that night.
If your local market is hot, houses will move fast.
In Asheville it's quite common for houses to go for 10s of thousands over asking with contracts being signed sight unseen. I managed to avoid the major pitfalls of this market but it continues to be utterly cutthroat.
"Luckily" for us, we have a fixed rate mortgage and are planning to stay in this house at least another 10 years. We'll re-evaluate once the youngest hits college, but I really like this place.
I made sure my mortgage was fixed rate too. Those 0 down USDA loans are pretty sweet.
I honestly fantasize about selling right before a crash, collecting the overage, renting until the crash bottoms out, then buying into a nicer area. Sadly, a) I'll never time something that perfectly intentionally and b) I don't think we're actually going to crash/bubble here - I think the Pacific Northwest is just a stupidly popular place to move right now and as long as everyone is bathing in their McDucklike pools of Silicon Valley 2.0 stock vestings, it makes no sense to do anything but shelter in place.
https://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/10431400/#/90431397
Not blackout, but they went in super easy, no strings/cords to deal with, and their quality appear to be fine at a very low price for window treatments. They're not custom cut, but if there's a size that fits your window frame you might give them a look.
Eh, I think there is a strong chance for a price correction, but I don’t expect a financial crisis to come from it.
The difference this time is due diligence to ensure buyers can actually afford the crazy prices. Last time there was both high loan amounts and tremendously shitty documentation- like unverified “stated income” (less shady lenders would ask for proof if you said you made over a limit, or your job and income seemed not to match, but plenty of others just let you add as many zeros as you wanted to the end of the number with no proof), appraisers collaborating with brokers/lenders, etc.
So a correction makes home prices level off (or decline)- current owners should be able to continue to pay, while prices are less unaffordable for others, opening up a larger customer base for lenders.
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
The size is so close. Damnit.
The cold snap has abated, and the current weather is a miserable level of muggy.
I think I'm going to call the installers and see if they can move up the charging.
We got ours from blinds.ca (blinds.com is the US version); "Bali" cellular blackout blinds for a 45x60 window would be CDN$177 = USD 131. (we actually got double-cell non-blackout ones, for insulation rather than darkness, but the overall buying and installing experience was great).
But I can’t think of a good way of moving my recycling to the outdoor bin that doesn’t involve some stuff eventually leaking to the bottom from various cans and jars.
I guess you could use paper that's going in the recycle to soak up drips, but the bag is a bit of a cleaner solution.
The in and outs of recycling in the US are pretty depressing, but that's another thread.
We use either paper grocery bags or empty cardboard boxes from Amazon packages to collect our recycling, and just take it straight to the bin like that. If using a box, we empty it into the bin and then break it down.
We've never had any problems with drips or leaks doing it that way, but we do let plastic dry in the dish rack after cleaning it and make sure to shake out as much water as possible from cans or bottles after rinsing them. Placing paper or cardboard to be recycled at the bottom of whatever bag or box helps too.
(basically everything goes in the regular trash now rip china recycling)
Yeah here in Australia all the recycling companies shuttered their facilities and just shipped it all offshore, and now we have fuck-all recycling capabilities.
Capitalism!