DYI home reno tips?

[R3DS!X]

So Gonna start soon on tackling quite a few projects, kitchen, bathrooms, garage, oh my.

Are there any places to make sure that the work I do is up to local code? like hopefully something a bit more simple and straightforward than walls of text.

any websites I should look at aside form YouTube? Any advice?

 

[yodaisgod]

Just don't do grey....anything. Barn doors look good on barns. They fucking suck otherwise. You want to date your kitchen, go with a farmhouse style sink. Mix metals (brass and satin) if you don't care about life.

Yeah, I'm salty from looking at shitty flips from people watching too much goddamn HGTV.

 

[byke]

^^^ So he should definitely invest of loving/homey/inspirational phrases carved into pieces of wood and hang them all over the place..?

 

[AbsolutEnduser]

Are there any places to make sure that the work I do is up to local code? ?

DC (I presume.. not Reno) City hall for permits.

 

[DReg350]

I thought this thread was gonna be ‘bout looking for how to use a paper map stead of google maps to get from your house to reno. Guess not. :dunno

 

[R3DS!X]

Just don't do grey....anything. Barn doors look good on barns. They fucking suck otherwise. You want to date your kitchen, go with a farmhouse style sink. Mix metals (brass and satin) if you don't care about life.

Yeah, I'm salty from looking at shitty flips from people watching too much goddamn HGTV.

Oh I'm gonna spray paint live laugh love over all the walls!

 

[TylerW]

^^^ So he should definitely invest of loving/homey/inspirational phrases carved into pieces of wood and hang them all over the place..?

 

[auntiebling]

everything will look dated eventually. be sure to include some whitewashed shitshiplap.

if you want it to be fashionable for the longest possible time i'd reccommend going with tan, off white, biscuit... those will be coming back into fashion soon i'm sure of it!

your city will have some requirements for various levels of rennovation at the permit office. if you want something to be up to code... read the code and your city will have some additional level of nitpickery on top of the standard codes.

if you're doing countertops anywhere, and want "granite" of any variation (quartz marble, quartzite, actual granite etc etc etc. something that is or is meant to look like stone) spring for the mitered edge rather than the laminated (as most pre-fab slabs are) edge.

some patterns it isn't noticeable, but lots and lots of patterns it looks very obvious and is especially apparent on any long straight section as you'd find in a kitchen countertop. materials meant to imitate something grainy (granite) might be ok with laminated. something with stripes/veins (marble or imitations) will look really weird if laminated

tile: other than large format tiles, farm it out. it's way harder than it looks on youtube. large format tiles are more forgiving IMO. if you have a pattern: seriously, hire a pro.

found a picture, obvious laminated seam. some don't care. looks really hideous to me.

 

[89hawk]

Check out https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/

They cover a lot of projects

 

[Bubba_s]

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[bikeama]

DIY. ?? Be honest about your skills and abilities. If you can do it, do it, you will save big bucks. If you can't pay someone to do it right the first time, and not more to fit what you did.

 

[Yakoo752]

Whatever time you think it's going to take

add a few days

finish work SUCKS

 

[yodaisgod]

Oh I'm gonna spray paint live laugh love over all the walls!

I'm going to roundhouse you in the face! :laughing

 

[Caddywumpus]

Reno 911 is a great documentary

 

[auntiebling]

Whatever time you think it's going to take

add a few days

finish work SUCKS

QFT

btw, 99% of what you're asking about red6 is finish work. i'd go so far as saying 100% of remodeling is finish work because framing and rough plumbing and rough electrical can make or break the finish steps

 

[greenmonster]

Be careful that whatever you, you do with permits from the city or you’ll have a tough time selling the house in the future. Appraisers will check for any extra work or remodeling that was done and pull the permits to assure the lender that everything was done legit.

 

[mrmarklin]

DIY. ?? Be honest about your skills and abilities. If you can do it, do it, you will save big bucks. If you can't pay someone to do it right the first time, and not more to fit what you did.

Have a professional do electrical and plumbing. He will know the codes. And likely do the job correctly. :thumbup

 

[jt2]

^^^ So he should definitely invest of loving/homey/inspirational phrases carved into pieces of wood and hang them all over the place..?

That seems to be the central point in the home stager playbook. We sold our home recently, and there wouldn't have been a room in the house that didn't have one of those schlocky fucking things in there if the stager had their way. :laughing

 

[mrzuzzo]

Be careful that whatever you, you do with permits from the city or you’ll have a tough time selling the house in the future. Appraisers will check for any extra work or remodeling that was done and pull the permits to assure the lender that everything was done legit.

I think this depends on the work being done. Changing countertops, vanities, etc? Probably won't matter. If you are doing additions and structural changes then yes

Have a professional do electrical and plumbing. He will know the codes. And likely do the job correctly. :thumbup

Yeah so I'm just about finished a DIY kitchen remodel. It was mostly painless however one thing I did not account for was new sink depth.

Anyway we have a serious plumbing issue/code problem since our drain in the wall is only 1" below the bottom of the kitchen sink. I didn't realize my wife ordered a deep sink, I thought they were all the same, so now I have to redo the plumbing and run it from the subfloor which will be a major PITA.

 

[greenmonster]

I think this depends on the work being done. Changing countertops, vanities, etc? Probably won't matter. If you are doing additions and structural changes then yes



Yeah so I'm just about finished a DIY kitchen remodel. It was mostly painless however one thing I did not account for was new sink depth.

Anyway we have a serious plumbing issue/code problem since our drain in the wall is only 1" below the bottom of the kitchen sink. I didn't realize my wife ordered a deep sink, I thought they were all the same, so now I have to redo the plumbing and run it from the subfloor which will be a major PITA.

And I suppose just getting a sink that fits is out of the question? You’ve already thought of that obviously.