An Idiots guide to House Repair

arse_sidewards said:
Dude, just use a normal spinny shower only valve and tee off it's supplies to run a normal tub valve. Basic valves are cheap AF, or were a couple years ago.
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3 knob tub valve was $65.
Instead of running the bottom to a tub, I’m running it up to the other showerhead. It matches the ones in the house.

Whoever decided that we needed 2 different styles of pex connectors, the managers that decided these needs to be in the same area, and the absolute braindead NPC’s that like to disorganize the box stores shelves deserve to be shot, repeatedly. I’m 1 fitting short from the new water softener being installed. I only mildly got the panel wet.
 
Water softener and pre filter are installed. Only had 1 leak, but it wasn’t too bad at 65psi. I’ll hard pipe the filter drain in the future.

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ETA. I got rid of all the sharkbite stuff in flavor of pex-b.
 
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cj3a said:
Questioning the panel board and water softener locations
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Me too bud, me too.

That’s where the old one was, and where the main pipe goes into the ceiling. On either side of the utility room is a bedroom or bathroom and not much space to put it in.
 
Went and bought some “trim” at the box store and it was a bit bigger than I was expecting, but I needed something taller to hide an imperfection.

Turns out I bought window trim and painted before I was corrected.

Oh well, I think it looks good enough. Office is done. Shower plumbing is a saga, but it’s done as well. Gonna take a week or so off and throw heavy objects around. This house stuff is too dainty for me.

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tall baseboard trim is pretty standard any more
you can hide the flood damaged drywall easier :flipoff2:

don't gotta mud and tape all the way down to the floor either
 
Who knows. I’m not an interior desiccator, but I stayed at a holiday inn last night.
 
If that is the compressed sawdust flooring be very mindful of spills and general dampness, it doesn’t take much for it to come apart.
 
The kitchen and living room are made of the same sawdust. It's held up pretty well since ~2006 so I went with the same brand for a few reasons.
1. I don't plan on doing many indoor water-sports in the office area.
2. I'm gonna have a fine workshop area in here and dropping metal is a possibility.
3. It's 1 step above a starter house. I'll probably end up redoing it down the road but If I can get 20 years out of this, I'll be happy.
 
1x6 base with 129 shoe, all primed finger joint would be like $600.00 out the door for the first floor based on the floor plan. That's including all your closets and bathrooms. That's being generous with material counts as well.

14-16' material, you'd have to pick up in Verona. Assuming that supplier would match our pricing for their Fredericksburg location.
 
Motorcharge said:
$600.00
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Guessing that pricing is bulk? Might have to do that when I trim out the bedroom/bath, but Don't want to do too much until I finger out a shop situation.
Shower is cutting into the budget more than I hoped. Turns out that the 3 valves set that I picked up only works with fiberglass tubs and would have needed to be recessed into the tile to get it to work correctly. I picked up a diverter and normal valve, but that's still pricey and some more trim pieces. :mad3:

But it looks like he will be done with the shower next week and hopefully under what he quoted me.
 
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bad zuki said:
Guessing that pricing is bulk? Might have to do that when I trim out the bedroom/bath, but Don't want to do too much until I finger out a shop situation.
Shower is cutting into the budget more than I hoped. Turns out that the 3 valves set that I picked up only works with fiberglass tubs and would have needed to be recessed into the tile to get it to work correctly. I picked up a diverter and normal valve, but that's still pricey and some more trim pieces. :mad3:

But it looks like he will be done with the shower next week and hopefully under what he quoted me.
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Yes and no, even small quantities I can get bulk pricing on because of how much trim we buy out a year.

Pre-tax, I can get it per stick for PFJ at:
1x6 - $20/ea
1x4 - $14/ea
129 shoe - $3.50/ea

vs at Lowe's/HD where it's probably like $32/20/5

Trim has gotten considerably cheaper post-covid, at least for common stuff, but retail it's still going for covid prices.
 
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