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Finally. The contractor comes and sees MAH HOUSE
And basically warns me he might just give me a bid for the house version of the new radiator cap.
You know the story on that one, right? When you take the car in for service and they tell you it needs a new radiator cap?
"Yeah, pull the cap up and drive a new car underneath it."
I'll dub it the "new front doorknob" treatment. *facepalms* And he says he doesn't take jobs that are under $200,000.
UH.
Okay.
The fire insurance policy says it would take about $150,000 to rebuild the house as it stands. A little more, a little less.
In all truth, knocking it completely down and redoing it would be faster than retrofitting...and has some very good side benefits.
We know the back house MUST come down. No choice. And a closer look at the front house is showing some things that really might be deal breakers on saving the structure. Sixty years of creep and slab on clay foundation has taken its toll - I strongly suspect the foundation is cracked or damn near close to it. I could just do what we could to get that extra bedroom and bathroom, but we'd still be dealing with that.
And if we built new, I'd be able to put solar in...and anything else we had been wanting. Usable closets, for one. I wouldn't put air conditioning in, but I could put something central in...and that fireplace/wood stove thing.
But the financing. Ah. Well, people must be doing this because the home refit business continues to boom like no tomorrow - so, I'm thinking there must be so way to do it and I might be able to roll the money for the second adoption into it (and put that WAY aside).
Waiting to get more information. Guy was out here for two hours - that's what you get for getting the contractor who did an Extreme Home Makeover out to look at your house. Vic can stay.
Will the house? Stay tuned.
You know the story on that one, right? When you take the car in for service and they tell you it needs a new radiator cap?
"Yeah, pull the cap up and drive a new car underneath it."
I'll dub it the "new front doorknob" treatment. *facepalms* And he says he doesn't take jobs that are under $200,000.
UH.
Okay.
The fire insurance policy says it would take about $150,000 to rebuild the house as it stands. A little more, a little less.
In all truth, knocking it completely down and redoing it would be faster than retrofitting...and has some very good side benefits.
We know the back house MUST come down. No choice. And a closer look at the front house is showing some things that really might be deal breakers on saving the structure. Sixty years of creep and slab on clay foundation has taken its toll - I strongly suspect the foundation is cracked or damn near close to it. I could just do what we could to get that extra bedroom and bathroom, but we'd still be dealing with that.
And if we built new, I'd be able to put solar in...and anything else we had been wanting. Usable closets, for one. I wouldn't put air conditioning in, but I could put something central in...and that fireplace/wood stove thing.
But the financing. Ah. Well, people must be doing this because the home refit business continues to boom like no tomorrow - so, I'm thinking there must be so way to do it and I might be able to roll the money for the second adoption into it (and put that WAY aside).
Waiting to get more information. Guy was out here for two hours - that's what you get for getting the contractor who did an Extreme Home Makeover out to look at your house. Vic can stay.
Will the house? Stay tuned.