Progress so far
Apr. 23rd, 2022 06:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kareinaI just upated our renovation log. We have made progress on the house on 55 different days since buying it Thursday before Christmas, during which 207.6 hours elapsed. However, often both of us were working, so if someone had hired us for the job we would have billed 372.8 hours (if I was billing, as I enter real time into a spreadsheet; if Keldor was billing it would be more--his company rounds up to a full hour, even if it was a 15 minute job). This means that if we were being paid 500 SEK per hour the bill (so far) would be 186,391.67 SEK. Add that to the 325,000 SEK I paid for it, and the house is now worth (to me) 511,391.67 SEK (before we consider the cost of materials we've used for renovation). However, with the way the housing market looks right now if I sold it tomorrow I could get more than that...
So, where do we stand?
attic
* not really touched, other than hauling away a bunch of cardboard boxes the previous owner left, and putting up there to deal with later a few of his things that we are keeping and a few of my things thst logically live in a attic when not in use (empty suitcases, instrument cases, etc.)
upstairs
* The bedroom is done
* The office still needs the list between the paint and the walpaper (half way up), and the craft supplies that are waiting to be unpacked into the cupbords need to do that, so we can add more sets of drawers where those boxes sit.
* The bathroom is completely useable, and may get revovated later
* The kitchen is completely useable, and may get revovated later
* the little room by the kitchen has been cleaned and a cabinet put in for a pantry space. It will need renovating layer
* The livingroom is completely useable, but needs all the smoke damage (the previous owner used the fireplace without opening the chimney vent) washed from the walls and ceiling plus repainting and/or wallpaper
basement
* the ventilation hatches in every basement room has been unblocked, so, hopefully, the basement will not have problems with humidity anymore and the walls will cease to crumble their plaster.
* the hallway has been cleaned and a freezer and some storage cabinets put in to hold our stuff, but the walls and floors need repair and paint.
* pavilion closet is completely cleaned, walls patched with lime plaster and whitewashed, shelves and floors painted. However, we need to fix and strengthen the shelf that I cracked when I put the pavilion on it, so the shelves are still mostly empty till we do that
* the other big closet (intended to be a cool food store room when the house was built) is still full off all the car parts and other stuff it had when we arrived, plus other things we found in other parts of the house that we might want to keep, so we set it there to think about later
* the guest room had been emptied of tires and car parts and the floor and walls cleaned, but then we piled all of the furniture and knicknacks that came with the house thst we probably don't want to keep, but we haven't had the time to try to sell yet. Once that stuff is gone we will need to fix the walls and floors and repaint it before it becomes a guest room and, probably a workout area.
* the laundry room has been cleaned and is usable. We need to move the washer and dryer closer to the main door, and extend the wall by the garage door and put in a toilet, sink and shower in the newly created smaller room
* the garage has been 70% cleaned of junk. We need to get rid of the tires and all the stuff on the window ledge and clean and fix yhe walls and floors and paint it.
* the furnace room has been 40% cleaned and a useable workshop area has been set up. We need to finish the cleaning, take out the old, huge, oil cannister thst is no longer used with the furnace and add more storage, as well as fixing walls and floors and painting.
* the under the stairs cupboard hasn't really been touched
So, where do we stand?
attic
* not really touched, other than hauling away a bunch of cardboard boxes the previous owner left, and putting up there to deal with later a few of his things that we are keeping and a few of my things thst logically live in a attic when not in use (empty suitcases, instrument cases, etc.)
upstairs
* The bedroom is done
* The office still needs the list between the paint and the walpaper (half way up), and the craft supplies that are waiting to be unpacked into the cupbords need to do that, so we can add more sets of drawers where those boxes sit.
* The bathroom is completely useable, and may get revovated later
* The kitchen is completely useable, and may get revovated later
* the little room by the kitchen has been cleaned and a cabinet put in for a pantry space. It will need renovating layer
* The livingroom is completely useable, but needs all the smoke damage (the previous owner used the fireplace without opening the chimney vent) washed from the walls and ceiling plus repainting and/or wallpaper
basement
* the ventilation hatches in every basement room has been unblocked, so, hopefully, the basement will not have problems with humidity anymore and the walls will cease to crumble their plaster.
* the hallway has been cleaned and a freezer and some storage cabinets put in to hold our stuff, but the walls and floors need repair and paint.
* pavilion closet is completely cleaned, walls patched with lime plaster and whitewashed, shelves and floors painted. However, we need to fix and strengthen the shelf that I cracked when I put the pavilion on it, so the shelves are still mostly empty till we do that
* the other big closet (intended to be a cool food store room when the house was built) is still full off all the car parts and other stuff it had when we arrived, plus other things we found in other parts of the house that we might want to keep, so we set it there to think about later
* the guest room had been emptied of tires and car parts and the floor and walls cleaned, but then we piled all of the furniture and knicknacks that came with the house thst we probably don't want to keep, but we haven't had the time to try to sell yet. Once that stuff is gone we will need to fix the walls and floors and repaint it before it becomes a guest room and, probably a workout area.
* the laundry room has been cleaned and is usable. We need to move the washer and dryer closer to the main door, and extend the wall by the garage door and put in a toilet, sink and shower in the newly created smaller room
* the garage has been 70% cleaned of junk. We need to get rid of the tires and all the stuff on the window ledge and clean and fix yhe walls and floors and paint it.
* the furnace room has been 40% cleaned and a useable workshop area has been set up. We need to finish the cleaning, take out the old, huge, oil cannister thst is no longer used with the furnace and add more storage, as well as fixing walls and floors and painting.
* the under the stairs cupboard hasn't really been touched