Misfitmorgan's Journal - That Summer Dust

[Bruce]

Um nothing OTHER than "the kitchen and bathroom, windows, roof, furnace, a/c, new basement cement, and deck".

Gee those are really insignificant updates
Only about half the cost of the house. The new furnace and A/C probably run $15K

 

[greybeard]

Bathroom...it was remodeled a few years ago...they took out the tub

Anything ever happens to my wife, I'm jerking that big old jet tub out, replace it with a bigger walk in shower, and throwing out the existing small shower and installing a urinal in that unit's place.
Got my eye on a self flushing model already.

 

[misfitmorgan]

Um nothing OTHER than "the kitchen and bathroom, windows, roof, furnace, a/c, new basement cement, and deck".

Gee those are really insignificant updates
Only about half the cost of the house. The new furnace and A/C probably run $15K

Well yes i know lol but i mean as far as aesthetics it looks old on the inside.

I also dont think he noticed the windows were newer and all vinyl.

Anything ever happens to my wife, I'm jerking that big old jet tub out, replace it with a bigger walk in shower, and throwing out the existing small shower and installing a urinal in that unit's place.
Got my eye on a self flushing model already.

I dont want/need a big ole jet tub....just a tub would be nice or maybe a bigger walk-in...those tiny neoangle showers i loathe. Nothing like trying to wash your hair and whacking an elbow on the frame.

 

[greybeard]

Um nothing OTHER than "the kitchen and bathroom, windows, roof, furnace, a/c, new basement cement, and deck".

Gee those are really insignificant updates
Only about half the cost of the house. The new furnace and A/C probably run $15K

5 ton Trane central unit for my house (new) in 2009 was <$6K installed and blowing cold air.

 

[Bruce]

We put in a walk in shower downstairs. One "guiding principle" when we had to rebuild half the house was to make it 1 floor handicap accessible in case my wife's RA puts her in a chair. The tile guy wanted to put in a high step over sill, we compromised on one that was about 3" high. There is no reason the "manufactured stone" sill and 2" high "wall" can't be removed and the sill put back down after being tapered so a chair could roll over it.

There is a bathtub in the upstairs bathroom. Of course no one ever uses it, it serves as a support for the "lay flat to dry" stuff. Haven't bothered to attach the handheld shower support rod nor gotten doors or a curtain rod for it.

5 ton Trane central unit for my house (new) in 2009 was <$6K installed and blowing cold air.

Even if that matches what is in this house and the price hasn't changed (unlikely) it is still > 10% of the appraised value of the entire property.

 

[misfitmorgan]

5 ton Trane central unit for my house (new) in 2009 was <$6K installed and blowing cold air.

They had all new duct work installed as well as a new furnace when they had the A/C unit installed.

 

[misfitmorgan]

We put in a walk in shower downstairs. One "guiding principle" when we had to rebuild half the house was to make it 1 floor handicap accessible in case my wife's RA puts her in a chair. The tile guy wanted to put in a high step over sill, we compromised on one that was about 3" high. There is no reason the "manufactured stone" sill and 2" high "wall" can't be removed and the sill put back down after being tapered so a chair could roll over it.

There is a bathtub in the upstairs bathroom. Of course no one ever uses it, it serves as a support for the "lay flat to dry" stuff. Haven't bothered to attach the handheld shower support rod nor gotten doors or a curtain rod for it.


Even if that matches what is in this house and the price hasn't changed (unlikely) it is still > 10% of the appraised value of the entire property.

I believe this A/c unit is only a 2.5ton but i didnt exactly pay super attention when i toured the property lol.

 

[greybeard]

They had all new duct work installed as well as a new furnace when they had the A/C unit installed.

New ductwork is always a good thing (mine was installed as part of the central heat/cooling unit) and tailored for the unit and house size.

No nat gas lines in my area, and no one uses heating oil.
I had 3 choices:
All electric heat and air.
Central air conditioning with fireplace for heat.
Propane for heat with electric air conditioning.
I chose #1 because the house is very well insulated with 6" walls, I wanted nothing to do with splitting wood, and didn't want a mix of more expensive electric powered appliances and propane powered appliances.
By my house's sq footage, I could have gotten by with a smaller unit, but because of the total enclosed area and volume of air in that area I needed a larger unit.
(I have no attic space at all--ceiling goes from side wall up to roof peak front to back of the house except the back of the house under the upstairs floor, where bathroom, laundry and lower bedroom is )

The biggest total monthly energy bill I ever had was in Aug 2011 during the worst drought and heat wave in 60 years. Still just $212 for that month which I consider a bargain.

 

[misfitmorgan]

Luckily this place has Natural Gas. Nice looking place and i would have went with the same. I like the wood heat but i am sick of the mess of heating with wood in the house. Its not even so much the wood itself making the mess it is the ash all over the house, esp on the electronics.

I love your vaulted ceilings and open loft by the way!

 

[Mike CHS]

Your future (hopefully) home is definitely dated but you have what looks like a good base to work with. Our home didn't have a single room that you could spend a night in for almost 8 months. We gutted all the rooms and put in large showers rather than tubs. We did that with consideration for aging which you don't have to worry about for awhile.

We put in HVAC with ducting in 2015 and it was a little over $6500