House Projects

[A//// Guy]

Super shitty. Insurance claim might be worth it if you dont want to do the work yourself, high home deductible sucks though.

[Halon]

$1000 deductible, not too bad. We weren't sure if we were gunna use insurance or not. But in light of this new info, it's going to easily hit it and more since the ceiling has to come down too.

I could do a lot of it myself, but with our two little dude, I can't keep on top of my to-do list I have already. I guess that's why we have insurance.

[goodhart]

Yea, tough to get anything done with little ones. You'll probably hit that $1,000 mark quick if you did it yourself, plus if you have professionals do it you'll know it was done right. If my wife did that she'd be getting an earful! haha

[Halon]

Yeah, my wife feels pretty dumb about it. It's funny how she kinda played it off as no big deal, yet she is constantly nagging about water droplets on the windows causing mold, haha!

Well new news yet again. The ceiling does NOT have insulation, he was mistaken. So ceiling shouldn't have to come down. They came in with an infra-red scope and spotted a couple other spots on the ceiling and drilled holes. We have fans galore running up and down. And they brought in two massive commercial dehumidifiers. They will come back tomorrow and look again, but they are predicting the only thing is going to be the vanity. ceilings, walls, carpet, pad, should all be fine they think. So it may end up as an out of pocket deal now.

[Goat Blower]

We had a massive leak at our old house that trashed the kitchen ceiling similar to this. We had a company come out and take care of all of it and it ended up being almost $12k. Ours ruined the floor and cabinets though too. If you just have to re-rock the ceiling and put up knockdown, that's not too hard to do yourself with a rented lifted and sprayer.

[Halon]

Yeah I'll be doing the basement myself, extremely simple. They came out again this morning and everything is drying up really well. They are going to replace the bottom of the vanity, and a couple drawers, and thats it they think. And they will do a carpet steam clean at the end. Probably end up a little over a grand after repairs and renting the drying equipment. Coulda been a lot worse.

[goodhart]

Good to hear it's not so bad!

[turbotalon1g]

Good deal for not being worse.

[dogwhistle]

Thought I'd share the one remodel I took on with just my Dad and frankly isn't 100% done with paint, but it was my first time doing tile and happy how it went!

[Speedfreak]

I'm considering taking on a tile shower project at home. It's currently a fiberglass setup. So would need to be gutted, then built out correctly.

My question is, what is "correctly", and do you believe it's achievable by someone who has never done it before?