Show us your renovation skills.

300+ new homes, commercial buildings everything from hospitals, a bank, churches, some retail build outs. Later switched to high end "boutique" remodels. Pretty much retired now, pick up things I like to do, a lot of tile. Here are some recent tile pics.





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Very impressive! I did similar work in my younger days (but not as nice). Even hung/wired a flat screen tv in the master bath so my wife could sit in the tub and watch her HG tv. (Scored big points.) When we put the house on the market, that's what women commented on the most. House sold immediately, too.

 

I hear ya. I'm handy, but legit renovations are out of my league unfortunately.

 

These are a couple pictures from my pool room: ceiling is stamped tin I salvaged from a historic courthouse I rebuilt and the bar is built from maple I salvaged from a remodel at the AZ state House of Representatives. The stain I got from the mfg of the pool table, which is also maple, so everything would match, including the picture rail, chair rail, base and the rest of the trim.

 

I enjoy doing projects myself when I have the time - built this patio last year.

 

@Ericsopa this is what is meant by repurposing. If you're unable to get it try harder

 

This is the first house I built for myself. I am just getting started with planning/land acquisition for my forever home. Big plans, can't wait.

Sorry, these are pics of pics(I'm old). Little over 3 months from ground break to move in. 2 levels with finished walk out basement.

Day I bought the lot.

Foundation in.

Me every day/waking moment after regular work for 3 months.

Almost.

Moved in, pretty much done.

Had to add one more, just cause it includes one of my favorite truck builds.

 

I've done some work on this house, Did the patio a couple years ago. We are about to finish our basement. I'm fairly handy, but still call dad over for most of my projects to help out and on really tricky stuff like framing up the stairs on the deck, I have 2 uncles and 3 cousins in construction that help me out.
Put this deck on my old house

On our current house, I put the stairs on the deck and then put the patio on. Here's some before and after pictures of it.

And then the after

 

God damn. All I've ever done is lay a little tile and dry wall... Yall are talented.

 

That makes sense. I enjoy doing projects myself and defintely like the feeling after completing it. I may be buying a tile saw soon and give a few small areas in the house a try, starting with the laundry room.

You can learn a lot from YouTube and the internet, thats one thing I have going for me!

 

I'm pretty cool with most things fresh water related... I made a pressure test fitting so that if i solder up all the pipe work in a bathroom, before connecting to the rest of the house, I pressurized to 100psi and let sit overnight.... anything less than 100psi the next day and I wouldn't connect to the house. That helped me get really confident with my plumbing capabilities. I also only like copper & solder, I can't get into this whole PEX stuff.

Now poo pipes... that's a whole different story. I hate plumbing them, you can gravity pressure test them too if you so desire... I just tend not to.

What did you screw up that cost you so much?

 

PEX is really good stuff. Plumbers in my area swear by it.

 

Naw, ya just found a better use for it....

 

We use to have 3 large trees in back yard but disease got them and had to have them removed. Now I needed a place to sit in the shade so built this 3 years ago. Took me about 6 weeks to build but age tends to slow us down.

 

@gosolo Ya see, I understand the word, but it's just that it rarely describes the effort. You did a really beautiful job in your pool room. It was obviously a labor of love. "Repurpose" could've been using the tin ceiling panels to line the outside walls of an outhouse. Doesn't really say a thing to describe what went into the effort in the way of labor or love.

I "repurpose" manure in my garden every year, but that's not really what I'm doing.

 

These smaller tasks around the house really add up. I was talking with a coworker who had all of his sink faucets and toilets replaced and a couple other minor plumbing items and he spent like $5k plus on paying a company to do it. Add in stuff like fixtures, outlets, etc.. That stuff will add up really quick.

This reminds me, I need to replace all of the power outlets in my house. They are likely the originals and unless the plug is relatively new many of them have trouble holding in cords.

 

I took last week off because my wife was off on fall break. I decided to finish our patio cover because I need something to do... I am definitely not a professional, but I like to try new stuff. We had a crappy little cover when we moved in. I did the first section a little while ago and have been a little anxious to get it finished. I have to wrap up a few small things, but it’s close!

 

I actually do construction for a living. Just finished this remodel....

 

After

 

Before

 

Still finishing