> I have moved into houses and lived there while upgrading the interior
> and it has always been personally and financially rewarding
...after the demo work is finished. Maintaining sanity and a positive outlook is hard if your partner/spouse does not thrive in chaos. Triple the insanity if the kids are hopping over the chop saw in the dining room:)
Walking from the kitchen to dining room to cut 2xs is a lot easier than going to workshop. I was lucky and only had the girlfriend in the house. It is not the saw dust that killed me, it was the mess that came out of the walls when taking the old lathe and plaster down. The soot in the ceiling from the old gas lamps was disgusting.
Its nuts, dead center of the dining room there is black pipe right next to some old nob and tube wiring. It was as if they were not sure this new fangled electricity thing was going to take off so they were playing it safe and kept their options open. Fortunately I knew the other end was dangling in the basement. When I had an electrician put in a new service he saw the open end in the basement and said that he still stumbles across pipes that are hooked up and occasionally are noticeably leaking.
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Ha, my most successful project was done partially with a pregnant spouse and the other half with an infant in the house.
I find that you can gain a lot of understanding with 'shiny new house/cash to buy bigger house' promise at the end.
I always keep the saw in the garage. Better for keeping excess sawdust out of the house.
Walking from the kitchen to dining room to cut 2xs is a lot easier than going to workshop. I was lucky and only had the girlfriend in the house. It is not the saw dust that killed me, it was the mess that came out of the walls when taking the old lathe and plaster down. The soot in the ceiling from the old gas lamps was disgusting.
Yeah...I think we are working on houses built in different centuries. I was working on the first reno since building...not the 40th.
Its nuts, dead center of the dining room there is black pipe right next to some old nob and tube wiring. It was as if they were not sure this new fangled electricity thing was going to take off so they were playing it safe and kept their options open. Fortunately I knew the other end was dangling in the basement. When I had an electrician put in a new service he saw the open end in the basement and said that he still stumbles across pipes that are hooked up and occasionally are noticeably leaking.