Storm damage nearly erased..

[scook]

You really dove in. I love electrical, so I always do all of that, the demo, framing repairs, siding, set up for flat work, all the finish carpentry, misc. stuff, but left drywall, paint, insulation, cabinets and countertops to others. We’re getting ready to build a downsize house, and prices are so obscene, I may build our cabinets. I got lucky - have a great new neighbor couple and he’s just started his own construction company. We’ve been helping each other out some and he just built a full set of cabinets for a house in my shop. He’s offered to help me build ours.

Nice fish, by the way.

 

[RidgeRunner]

Prices. I feel you there. Sold lumber for 20 years. Sold 1/2” cdx 4-ply in pt for $12/sheet.
1x6x8 #2 pine was $2.00/ea.

 

[scook]

Yeah - the whole south end of the house renovation T1-11 was rotted. It was less expensive to do it with Hardie plank. The few sheets of T-1 I bought to fix spot rot were over $100/ sheet for the better stuff, and a few of the filler patches curled up and fell out (and it was in the Summer)!! It’s crazy.

I don’t think most people realize that, just like “the miracle of compound interest”, there’s the curse of compound inflation.

 

[RidgeRunner]

True, so true. I paid $16.96/ea for 1x6x8 pine.
It wasn’t #2, it was a select grade from Home Depot. Ouch!!! But it was beautiful..
I tried to build back as if I were building a house not a trailer. No melamine board, pressed wood or anything that will fall apart when and if it ever floods again… cabinets are sealed all six sides with 4 coats of polyurethane. That’s what takes the time. Stainless screws everywhere. Issues to resolve you never thought you would see. Like this—-

 

[RidgeRunner]

Staples rusted on that wire next door. Would have never rusted if the floods had not happened. Moving the 9x18 shed by myself was a hoot. Electric underground, well it was, kept the shed from moving off-site.

 

[RidgeRunner]

I got PTSD from all this. Looking back it was a lot of work. For every problem a solution.