Comments on: 500 Bucks Was Apparently Optimistic http://www.livingbehindthecurve.com/2007/08/09/500-bucks-was-apparently-optimistic/ Simple. Frugal. Fabulous. Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:59:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: N'Awlins Kat http://www.livingbehindthecurve.com/2007/08/09/500-bucks-was-apparently-optimistic/#comment-222 N'Awlins Kat Fri, 10 Aug 2007 17:45:55 +0000 http://www.livingbehindthecurve.com/2007/08/09/500-bucks-was-apparently-optimistic/#comment-222 @Mer--no surprises is good. Periodically (like every day at least once), I look around my castle, sigh and ask, "for this, I gave up half a grad school dorm room?" And my husband and daughter are not amused..... @Mer–no surprises is good. Periodically (like every day at least once), I look around my castle, sigh and ask, “for this, I gave up half a grad school dorm room?” And my husband and daughter are not amused…..

]]> By: Mer http://www.livingbehindthecurve.com/2007/08/09/500-bucks-was-apparently-optimistic/#comment-221 Mer Fri, 10 Aug 2007 16:04:18 +0000 http://www.livingbehindthecurve.com/2007/08/09/500-bucks-was-apparently-optimistic/#comment-221 @ N'Awlins Kat: *laughs* It's really not too bad. Aside from the unexpected guests, none of the repairs we've done, or are planning on doing, weren't glaringly obvious when we bought the place. It's still a pain in the neck, but thankfully, we haven't been rudely surprised by anything worse than a frozen water pipe over the winter. @ N’Awlins Kat: *laughs* It’s really not too bad. Aside from the unexpected guests, none of the repairs we’ve done, or are planning on doing, weren’t glaringly obvious when we bought the place. It’s still a pain in the neck, but thankfully, we haven’t been rudely surprised by anything worse than a frozen water pipe over the winter.

]]> By: N'Awlins Kat http://www.livingbehindthecurve.com/2007/08/09/500-bucks-was-apparently-optimistic/#comment-220 N'Awlins Kat Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:50:10 +0000 http://www.livingbehindthecurve.com/2007/08/09/500-bucks-was-apparently-optimistic/#comment-220 Ummmm....Mer? Sell the money pit! Seriously, I know the feeling. Our house flooded 12 years ago (w/o flood insurance...uggh), so we have learned way more than we ever wanted to know about construction. Sorry about your door. I can say that you will eventually wind up with a very cool tool collection, though! Probably not what you wanted to hear..... Ummmm….Mer? Sell the money pit! Seriously, I know the feeling. Our house flooded 12 years ago (w/o flood insurance…uggh), so we have learned way more than we ever wanted to know about construction. Sorry about your door. I can say that you will eventually wind up with a very cool tool collection, though! Probably not what you wanted to hear…..

]]> By: Mer http://www.livingbehindthecurve.com/2007/08/09/500-bucks-was-apparently-optimistic/#comment-219 Mer Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:56:50 +0000 http://www.livingbehindthecurve.com/2007/08/09/500-bucks-was-apparently-optimistic/#comment-219 @ N'Awlins Kat: Heh. Ok, first off, that's a stock photo. Second of all, yes, the gap is the problem and yes, the door still acts mostly doorlike on most days, but it does need to go. We did consinder installing a threshold and sweep down there, but we discovered a couple of barriers to that. First, the door is severely warped, which makes everything more complicated. Second, the doorway is an odd size, which means we have to custom-cut the metal threshold and sweep to fit, which means buying or renting metal-cutting tools we don't have. and finally, the bottom of the threshold is actually a 4 or 6 inch slab of concrete, which means more tools to deal with that. doing a sweep and new threshold is the first thing we thought of, but once we looked at what it would actually take to do it ourselves, it was only a hundred bucks less than a stock door and a base installation charge. @ N’Awlins Kat: Heh. Ok, first off, that’s a stock photo. Second of all, yes, the gap is the problem and yes, the door still acts mostly doorlike on most days, but it does need to go. We did consinder installing a threshold and sweep down there, but we discovered a couple of barriers to that. First, the door is severely warped, which makes everything more complicated. Second, the doorway is an odd size, which means we have to custom-cut the metal threshold and sweep to fit, which means buying or renting metal-cutting tools we don’t have. and finally, the bottom of the threshold is actually a 4 or 6 inch slab of concrete, which means more tools to deal with that.

doing a sweep and new threshold is the first thing we thought of, but once we looked at what it would actually take to do it ourselves, it was only a hundred bucks less than a stock door and a base installation charge.

]]> By: N'Awlins Kat http://www.livingbehindthecurve.com/2007/08/09/500-bucks-was-apparently-optimistic/#comment-218 N'Awlins Kat Fri, 10 Aug 2007 11:48:38 +0000 http://www.livingbehindthecurve.com/2007/08/09/500-bucks-was-apparently-optimistic/#comment-218 BTW, if you *do* decide to seal up the door, make sure it's to code to do it. Eliminating exits from a home is never a good idea, and might not be legal....fire exits and all that. BTW, if you *do* decide to seal up the door, make sure it’s to code to do it. Eliminating exits from a home is never a good idea, and might not be legal….fire exits and all that.

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