Busy, Busy, Busy!
April 17, 2008 by Karen Weideman
Filed under odds and ends
Whew! I am tired! My husband and I have been working non-stop on our house. We’ve spent countless hours in Home Depot, Lowe’s, and at the mulch store. This week we have:
- repaired the flower bed (previous owner’s mess up)
- put down weed guard material
- planted new shrubs
- took down the old light post
- put down new mulch
- filled in holes in the yard
- seeded the whole yard
- took out toilet and sink from bathroom
- tore out vinyl bathroom flooring
- painted bathroom trim and walls
- fixed some drywall mess ups in the kitchen and bathroom
- hung up fixtures in bathroom
- finished putting up moldings in the kitchen
- touched up paint in the kitchen
- repaired loose carpet squares in playroom
The good news is that we did all this stuff ourselves. While we may have spent a few hundred dollars on materials, we were able to save a few thousand dollars by not paying someone else to do these repairs.
What kind of projects are you working on?
We do lots of projects ourselves. We have four dogs – and wanted to fence in our backyard. For fencing in half the back yard, the estimate from a pro was $2700. For doing it ourselves and the whole backyard, we spent $503 total – tax included.
Took two days to install, but it was well worth the savings.
Oh yes, it is well worth the savings! We’re thinking about putting new shingles on our house. We can pay someone else to do it for about $3500 or we can do it for about $1100. Labor is very expensive.