I saved a lot of money by purchasing an old house… I knew that it would need a lot of work, but the savings in the overall price were enough to pay for any remodeling work.
If I had been raised by a father who has been a carpenter’s whole life, I would not have bit off a project like this… My Grandpa was a carpenter as well, so that skill runs in the family.
I was able to do a lot of the renovation labor on this apartment myself. However, I’ll admit there were a lot of areas where I needed to call in outside help… One of those areas was the roof. I never got any roofing experience in my past as well as I did not want to do this the wrong way as well, however another section that I’m not any fantastic at in my honorableopinion is heating as well as cooling. I have watched cooling systems get installed over the years, but not nearly enough to know how to do it on my own. I had the heating as well as cooling system installed by a local Heating as well as A/C dealer, but recently but, I had to call that same Heating as well as A/C corporation over to my apartment to help me with sealing the locale for frosty drafts before winter time starts! The heating as well as cooling specialist used weather stripping on all the windows as well as doors to make sure there wasn’t any air leaking in or out. My fantastic friend and I also had to check the attic to make sure it was properly sealed in the right locales. Hopefully my heating bill will be a little bit lower this year compared to the last.