Then I noticed there was termite damage on the baseboard. The painters never told me about it when they painted the house. More to follow.
Flooring was supposed to go in on Monday.
Then I noticed there was termite damage on the baseboard. The painters never told me about it when they painted the house. More to follow.
So we pulled up more subfloor.
And more
And then we pulled out more.
I have very similar backsplash, countertop and cabinets. Are we normies? I don't have woodBlack folk though.
Look at how big these motherfricking tubes are.
Hey man....that looks serious and very expensive. How are you going to get rid of the termites?
>tfw bought a flipped home
>they didn't sand when they painted stuff
>a lot of refurbished stuff
>bad grout job that I only notice because I've been researching diy
>they installed half of the door handles BACKWARDS
Everything else is fine though and the house was in disgusting shape when the flippers bought it lol.
See
It’s really not a huge deal so far. My biggest concern today was making sure I braced the ceiling well enough to rip out the wall. I called a contractor buddy of mine and he gave me some pointers that put me on the right path. (3 12 ton jacks instead of 1 2 ton jack, etc). He was very helpful and it made me much more confident in the next steps. I’ll be cutting the wall out tomorrow and hopefully I’ll rebuild most of it by Thursday. All in all this will cost me about $2k in labor and materials but it’s setting me back 2 weeks. That’s the part that I hate. I have other projects I need to get to.
Purchased for 35k. Rehab + holding costs are about 35-40k. Should sell for 120-140k.
What?
I’m not cheap. Part of why I do these things myself is that I like to learn. So if I’m presented with a problem instead of glossing it over I dig into it and fix it correctly.
Picrel is the one jack my buddy suggested I not use. I’m really glad I sent him this and got his input. Turns out the roof jacks are on this wall too, so I need 3 points of support instead of just one. I was very close to just yoloing it before I called him. Glad I didn’t.
>mate
Opinion immediately discredited
>>mate
>Opinion immediately discredited
absolutely mogged
That ceiling looks nice did it come with the house or you do it?
The family did a remodel in the 80’s and they put it up then.
jesus
Forget the subfloor at this point, how're the joists and studs?
Studs seem to be ok but I’m going to have to replace the 2x6 plate the joists attach to. I’m guessing once I dig into that I’ll realize that I have to support some of the studs. I have to cut out about 8 feet of the beam and then replace 6 feet of 8 or 10 joists.
Keep us updated. Thanks for the pics. I take it this was a fixer upper?
When I tore my house down to the studs and joists in some rooms, I saw similar damage. Luckily it was treated years ago but they never opened walls to see the extent.
Is it a single story house?
I’m flipping this house and it has been a nightmare but I’m still optimistic that I’ll make 50-70k on it. The hardest part has been getting the cat urine smell out. I had to prime the floors, paint the cabinets, shellac the wood ceilings in the kitchen. The lady had 30 cats and we found 6 dead ones when we cleaned it out. Once I finish this repair the flooring will go in and we can get it on the market. I’ll be in it for about 60k and it should sell for 130-140k.
Cabinets before
Cabinets after.
We replaced the backsplash and put in granite after this so it looks a lot better than this pic.
Lol that backsplash is brutal
We ripped it out.
Not bad. Hope you replace that light with something more modern. Have you posted this before?
I posted pics a few weeks ago asking about the light wiring.
Ah good, the classic zoomer grey and lifeless color scheme.
I really like your ceiling anon.
I was rooting for you until these pictures I hope this "flip" bankrupts you.
You’re moronic. The house looks great and I do great work.
You couldn’t even identify termite damage. The painters you had to hire out didn’t respect you enough to tell you about it either. Looks like shit mate better luck next time
ew ruined the cozy wood
Fricking ruined. Painted wood is the ugliest thing out there. The entire kitchen's got to be ripped out and redone now. I hope you have a nice day.
Reeeee. The cabinets are beautiful. I’m a great painter and they look professionally done because that’s how well I paint.
I don't give a good goddamn how well you paint, painting a beautiful walnut stained cabinet like that is the work of a heathen and you will burn in hell for your sins. I hope you make a loss because someone hates that kitchen as much as I do
>painting a beautiful walnut stained cabinet
that's ash (most likely) not walnut
Not him but that wood texture looked amazing. You should've refinished it and put some wax. No way cat piss actually got on the cabinets.
The lady had 30 cats in a 1100 sqft house. We found 6 dead ones when we cleaned it out. Everything smelled like cat piss.
Thanks
>cats didn't piss onto and into cabinets
>and every other available inch of surface
>area
lol
>it didn't soak into any of the many
>porous materials used to build a house
lmao
That's ugly as shit.
You've destroyed it. That wood looked great. Now it is almost as bad as an Ikea kitchen
Do you moronic frickers think I *wanted* to paint these cabinets? It took two extra weeks and cost an extra 1k. I would have been much happier not painting them. They were covered in cat piss. It was so bad that some of the hinges were corroded from piss.
>1k and 2 weeks to paint cabinets
>Calls other people moronic
KEK, you're a frickin riot. Weekend Warrior's with too much money and no real construction experience are the comedic relief of PrepHole
You think that mud job is from a weekend warrior? Literally moronic.
Yes, I do. I've built residential, I've built commercial, I've built multifamily, I wouldn't contract you for anything based on the ridiculous expenses and timelines you throw around.
If a Contractor of mine told me 1k and 2 weeks for PAINT on cabinets, I would probably shit myself laughing.
Does your trust fund manager have to approve your expenses?
>proud of mud
>paint on cabinets.
Yeah youre skill less. Have fun practicing on your Louisiana shit house no one is buying because economic stagnation. Now you can be like your hero Nick and put a gun in your mouth every night while your trust fund dwindles away as you hodl that roach hotel.
Hourly breakdown of 1k over 80hrs(assuming normal 40hr week) means you're using $12.50 of material and labor every hour. No wonder your shitbox is taking so long, nobody's working!
>Soulful, warm wood
>Paint it millennial white for a 'modern' look
ngmi
I wanted to keep them but they had absorbed the smell of the cat piss. I had no choice but to paint them.
oh great so the smell will just soak through the paint in a year "honey whys the kitchen smell like cat piss" a year later
Not his problem
Not that anon. I actually prefer the changes. Yeah, I'm a millennial. Thankfully he left the ceiling though.
I was looking at homes with the gf the other day. We both found one which we liked where the floor and ceiling had matching color and material. That wood paneling is very nice but hard wood flooring will compliment it extremely well. It also won't look like the generic Home Depot material id you do it right.
>Beautiful woodgrain and rich color
>Paint it white
You house flippers are fricking morons
I've helped renovate a friends house years ago that had pets. As soon as the carpet was out, it unleashed years of pissing smell. They had to replace large sections of subfloor. There's not a product out there that will cover up that smell.
Pic of me tearing apart the joist like spaghetti.
why would you paint before flooring
>i dont want to get paint on the floor
its so fricking easy to protect the floor with ramboard
That’s moronic. Then you risk getting paint on brand new carpet.
you can make mask carpet too, know what you can't mask? the walls
Found a new termite tube. My buddy who is a 3rd generation pest control guy said “Damn that’s a big tube” after I sent him this pic.
You said your in $60k, how much did you buy the house for before starting work on it?
Close up of some of the damage.
I’ve never seen a termite before,
How do you kill them, spray them with deadly chemicals? That damage is insane! I’d buld everything out of stone.
t. canada.
Here’s a screenshot of a video I took. They look like little white ants.
You pour a very potent poison on the ground near their nest and it kills them after 30 days but not before they spread it to all of their family members.
I put the video online for you.
https://files.catbox.moe/on0f0h.MOV
Thanks, how do people even live there, I don’t know. Looks like it could collapse multi-storey buildings.
My wife had a mosquito bite once and she thought we had bedbugs so we went full rambo on everything, then realized it was just a mosquito bite.
If she saw this, that would be more time destructively searching.
What the frick are you going to do about the rim joist and footer? Are you going to go all around and sneak new pieces in or something? They've got to be as bad as the floor joists.
They got replaced. I replaced about 12 feet while I supported the ceiling and wall but I hired a foundation guy to replace the rest because I didn’t want to lay on my back under the house for 3 days figuring it out. He did it by himself in 9 hours for $2200.
Also thank you for telling me what the rim joists are called. I have been erroneously calling them “headers” knowing that it wasn’t the right word.
>He did it by himself in 9 hours for $2200.
Honestly a square deal for the amount of work.
geez looks effed, and painting the wood white looks shit
lol, op...
looks like you bought a real lemon, and have high hopes of selling lemonade
looks like you didnt hire a single professional, let alone an inspector
looks like you're gonna need a lot of luck
Inspectors aren't worth shit when you're buying a fixer-upper. We bought our current house knowing we'd have to gut it, but we got an inspector beforehand just to shut up my parents and my wife's parents.
Things he missed:
>Severe rodent infestation in the attic
>Chewed wires with literal exposed copper exiting the panel
>Evidence of electrical fire in attic
>Wooden foundation piers with over 50% rot, only 2" below the soil
>plumbing held up with baling twine
For me, it was worth every penny to avoid hearing "well you shoulda got an inspector" for the rest of my life.
Lol a lot of them can only point out surface shit like broken light switches or a dripping faucet. A realtor I worked with once was trying to get me to hire her husband, who was an inspector, and he came along to look at a house with me. He failed to realize that the current shithouse expert who owned the place had removed a load bearing column when opening up a living room. I didn't hire him. On the other hand, I had an old school guy who meticulously pointed out everything fricked with slappy modern construction on a house I was interested in, and ended up saving me a $100k headache due to a shit EIFS stucco installation.
Pulling for you and your DIY, so long as you aren't being a cheap frick flipper and doing the bare minimum to maximize your profit. Do it right and make someone a great home, or have a nice day if you shortcut everything cause "lol their problem now, I got paid!"
To be honest with you, it’s really not a huge job. It’s really just framing and joists, scissor joint the joists and then osb, drywall, insulation.
Won’t cost you a huge amount to fix
When I bought my house I started painting etc and then that unearthed that the frickheads that renovated the house 20 yrs ago lined rooms with hardboard and mdf boards.
So basically I’m getting every room down to stud.
Then add additional framing, run new electrics while I’m at it (I’m an electrician) ,adding insulation and new drywall, trim etc. a bedroom cost me $1000 or so to completely redo including paint and carpet
those termite tubes are fricking epic
Check this out. These are hanging in multiple places under the house.
For anyone following this, we made some progress today. Studs will go in tomorrow. I’m also having a foundation guy come and look at the header and plate under the kitchen because the termites ate a lot more wood than I had realized and I want to see how much it will cost for him to fix the more difficult areas to get to. Poison arrives Friday and I’m going to drown these frickers in termidore.
Different angle
>Unaccessible crawlspace over untreated/sealed dirt
I fricking hate boomers like you wouldn't believe.
>flipper scum proliferating, snatching every affordable home, throwing down shitty LVP, painting everything white and grey, and marking it up 250% the next spring
Come join the fun instead of crying about it. Be the change you want to see in the world. You can overpay for houses, spend too much on the rehab to make them fit your beauty standards, and then go bankrupt like millions of other people who try to “flip” houses because they like HGTV.
Cry about it moron. These small rural homes with degrade into dust if there weren't flippers to fix them. Homebuyers aren't going to rehab a home to live in themselves.
Why don't you have termite inspection service if you have a house? Quarterly thing? Costs me like 180/y
You could proh just buy the traps and operate them yourself too
This isn’t where I live. I’m fixing this up to sell.
So how did you acquire this house that it wasn't inspected, a tax sale? Auction?
Also, I'd be willing to bet there's a lot more termite damage than just next to the garage.
You are correct. They are the plate and header where the joists sit on 20 more feet of the house. I paid a guy 2k to replace those. I could have done it but it would have taken me 3 days to do it and I didn’t want to spend 3 days in my back under the house. He did it in 9 hours by himself.
>where did I get this house
A friend knows I flip houses and this was her grandparents house. I met her dad and granddad there and made an offer on it and they accepted.
If this thread is still alive I’ll keep posting pics until the subfloor is back in and the wall is finished.
Update. This was the end of the day today. I should start mudding tomorrow and hopefully have this finished up early next week.
Where do you get fixer uppers for 30k? Pic related its Adelanto, CA right next to the airport. Just a whole neighborhood of abandoned houses that look like this. Like I got a fixer upper for you frickhead. I got affordable housing for you frick head.
Obviously not in California dickhead, why even pretend to be moronic that hard? What's the goal there?
I've seen worse
Quick update
Please do everyone a favor and replace that shitty light fixture with even just a basic chandelier. A boob light in a dining area is peak poverty tier and you have a stained wood ceiling for fricks sake.
Why should we care about your housing issues.