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Originally Posted by mountainman
My wife and I are well underway in building a new house. The costs have escalated beyond all reason-in fact, having reached a level that I'd be embarrassed to even disclose to sane persons.
I'm no economist, and nobody will EVER ask me to expound on the causes of inflation, but I'm not dumb or gullible, either, and fully realize that , Putin aside, the current administration stands largely responsible for my difficulties.
For HOLY god's sake, the president HIMSELF clearly conveys this with verbal obfuscation and silly finger pointing. Just listen to the man for 30 SECONDS and no doubt can remain about who's culpable. Joe Biden rats his own party out.
Unless I'm to hold the supreme court responsible for the 10k gravel bill I just footed.
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I feel your pain, but only a little at a time. I can't even call what I am doing home remodeling, as this place was a 50-50 tear down. The shop I run my business out of is great after I rewired it, and I love the 10 wooded acres, and being 1/4 mile plus from neighbors. The house would set world records for code violations. Easy example, the water heater was 6" from the electrical panel that ran the house. That was in place when it was built 40 years ago.
The point is moot, the Real Estate agent that sold this house to my girlfriend because I was too busy to get here was nothing but a con man. As I have said before my girlfriend is a hard core liberal whose political beliefs run her life. She is never wrong. Since I am a hardcore Republican tough guy, the default is I am always wrong, even on subjects where she knows nothing.
Sorry Mountain Man, I went off track. I sat down and starting costing out
the repairs this dump needed, most of the work I figured I would do, even though I have all the knowledge father time hasn't been kind to me, but I can do most of the work, just on the slow side.
About 3 years ago I wrote up a budget and gave it a padding of 50%-100% over, and started work just shy of 2 years ago. I have planned to do most of the labor myself. I did order sand and gravel, the gravel for a driveway and the sand to put in a trench to protect the electric conduit and water pipe to a well. I paid my neighbor for the trenching and gravel spreading. This is the neighbor I have to threaten with physical harm to take 50% on the dollar for his help.
Moral of the story, my project is way over budget even though I am trying to skimp. Even though you can only walk in the middle of the attic, I was thinking of nailing in OSB sub floor in up there so it would be easier to replace the plumbing. This house is copper plumbed which is bad when you have acidic well water, it is shot. When the OSB sub floor quadrupled in price, I decided to buy four 2 x 4 pieces of finished hardwood and slide them around on the studs as I worked.
If it appears these days a contractor is trying to rip you off they aren't.
They need to pad their quotes as they have no idea what the commodities will cost next week.
