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I'm in the middle of house project hell.

We are repainting the bedroom,back bathroom, main bathroom, and hall. We are putting new flooring in both bathrooms. We are getting new carpet in the living room,hall, kid's rooms, and our bedroom.

So far we have the bedroom and the hall painted. I was going to paint the main bathroom today and DH was going to put in the new flooring. Well, he just ripped up the old flooring . We knew the sub floor was likely damaged, but it's way worse than what we thought. We now have to wait to dry parts of it out and then put some type of primer down to keep out the mold. Sigh.

Oh, and this is also supposed to be done by Tuesday. <laughs hysterically>

[BeanBabies]

Hm. We're getting things done, but by other people. "lol9" I wouldn't paint my house if you put a shotgun to my head. I. Hate. Painting.

We're getting the floors on the first floor replaced in about 2 weeks and I'm not looking forward to packing up the entire downstairs. Blech.

[ChristmasTree]

I'm in the middle of house project hell.

We are repainting the bedroom,back bathroom, main bathroom, and hall. We are putting new flooring in both bathrooms. We are getting new carpet in the living room,hall, kid's rooms, and our bedroom.

So far we have the bedroom and the hall painted. I was going to paint the main bathroom today and DH was going to put in the new flooring. Well, he just ripped up the old flooring . We knew the sub floor was likely damaged, but it's way worse than what we thought. We now have to wait to dry parts of it out and then put some type of primer down to keep out the mold. Sigh.

Oh, and this is also supposed to be done by Tuesday. <laughs hysterically>

why was it wet? did you have a flood?

[StillSingingMom]

Well, there was the time the contractors were supposed to finish the basement before our son was born, and of course they didn't, so I was going up and down stairs with a baby and slipped on a rainy night, and threw myself in a strange contortion so as to land UNDER the baby when I came off the stairs rather than ON him...

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why was it wet? did you have a flood?


No. Part of the flooring by the tub was coming up and three small children often went nuts and splashed the HELL out of the water. Thus, wet subfloor.

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Well, there was the time the contractors were supposed to finish the basement before our son was born, and of course they didn't, so I was going up and down stairs with a baby and slipped on a rainy night, and threw myself in a strange contortion so as to land UNDER the baby when I came off the stairs rather than ON him...


Eek!

[Crabbie]

I have been in DYI hell for the last ten years. I can say that we have successfully replaced all of the flooring in the house, repainted nearly every wall and now we're looking to finish up the bathroom that dh started a few years ago. I wont allow him to start the kitchen - that will be a hire out job because I don't want to be kitchen-less for years. Every project we have started has dragged out FAR longer than I have cared for. Heck the bathroom has literally been a work in progress for YEARS! If we decide to do anything else I'll be insisting on hiring people for the job.

[alejorge]

Today was a hell day for me. I got an unexpected house project today. Thanks to my DS:)

Today while I was upstairs picking things up (DH was still in bed) My DS was downstairs(3yrs old) playing. Or so I thought. Next thing you know I hear my DS yelling up the stairs "the baby peed on the floor and there's a big mess"

I tell my DH to go see what he was talking about. Come to find out my nice DS Stuffed about 1 whole roll of toilet paper down the toilet then flushed it. Needless to say it backed up all over my bathroom floor, kitchen floor, and living room floor.

I called maintenance to let them know and left all my info and they were so nice to never call back or come over to help fix the flooding.

So my DH went and got a shop vac and i borrowed a steam cleaner from a neighbor. My DH did the best he could getting the water out of the carpet with the shop vac and then i steam cleaned the carpet to make sure it was clean.

We then put the cieling fan on, the osculating fan on, and the A/C on to help dry out the carpet. We don't want the carpet to get moldy.

I will be going down to the office tomorrow when they open and letting them know again what happened just incase they want to do something more.

It was a long day today. Hopefuly my carpet will be dry by tomorrow. It is still damp right now.

[QuiltyConscience]

I need to repaint 3 rooms in the house but I just do not want to. Now I really don't want to.

[ColleenF30]

I need to repaint 3 rooms for sure (possibly 5 if I get the gumption), and 2 rooms need reflooring. I need to ditch the carpet in the kitchen and bathroom and go to the cheep linoleum at the very least. Money is only half the issue, as being 24 weeks pregnant, and DH has never done anything like that before puts a damper on things.

[Iconoclast]

I have been repainting my ds's bathroom, I was halfway finished when I realized that the second gallon of paint did not exactly match the first. I will have to go back to the paint store, fight about it with them, get two more gallons of paint and start all over. That bathroom was supposed to be retiled while we were away, but since I wasn't able to finsh the paint job before we left, if isn't being done and now I'll have to put up with tile people working while I'm home. :(

[MMof5]

We've been living in a construction zone for 2 years. I'm used to it.

The worst was when the roof was taken off and all the internal walls upstairs removed. Debris was everywhere. We actually couldn't live here at that time. I visited once and saw rubble smashing my strawberry plants and rose bushes. I left and vowed that I would not be back until some clean-up was done. The next time I went, so much had been done that it didn't even look like the same place. Now we can walk through the upstairs without hitting our heads constantly.

If I made a list of everything we were doing and everything that still needed to be done, you'd all be yawning on me. It's exceptionally long. LOL!

I call it my life's project----what can I say, it's a work in progress.

[vulturemom]

Ours was our kitchen. IT was awful!

The cabinets ended up back ordered, plumbing fell apart every time DH touched it. What we were planing on taking a month ended up taking 3 months. The whole time all our appliances were in the living room and every thing that we ate had to be cooked in the microwave or not need cooked. It took over the whole freaken house and I was craving real food so bad by the time it was over.

When it started I was very picky about what I wanted done and how I wanted it to look. In the end I didn't care I just wanted a kitchen again.

[Wildflower]

I recently repainted my sewing room that I started using for photography - it was a nice green color - had to put THREE coats of white to cover that. Then we ripped carpet out of our basement that's only about 4 years old or so - was really nice *looking* but started to smell musty! I can't believe how much better I FEEL now that that carpet is gone! I'm having much less coughing/runny nose. Now I really want to rip ALL the carpet out of our entire house! But we're still in the middle of the basement thing - we're thinking of using a concrete stain on our family room down there now that the carpet is gone. I'd really LOVE to do wood flooring through our entire house, though. I'm not sure if we'd try to do it all ourselves. DD is getting old enough now that I can start thinking about these things again :)

[WalkingTittyBar]

We are always in project hell, it seems. We just finished our back porch, after starting on it two summers ago. It needed repainting and new indoor/outdoor carpet. Sounds simple enough, huh? Dont ask me why it took so long. I dont even know.

Both boys bedrooms need repainted. I have the bottom part of ds1s' done, and I have the paint for the top but I havent had the motivation to do it, although I have been thinking about it alot lately.

We ripped up the carpet in the family room finally, but we still need to extend the ceramic tile that is in the back part of the room and the laundry room on through. Dont know when that will be done.

Eventually I will get tired of looking at this stuff that needs finished and Ill get it done.

[WalkingTittyBar]

I have been repainting my ds's bathroom, I was halfway finished when I realized that the second gallon of paint did not exactly match the first. I will have to go back to the paint store, fight about it with them, get two more gallons of paint and start all over. That bathroom was supposed to be retiled while we were away, but since I wasn't able to finsh the paint job before we left, if isn't being done and now I'll have to put up with tile people working while I'm home. :(


When you have more that one gallon of paint for a room, you need to mix them in a bigger bucket to make sure there is no difference in color. I learned that one the hard way.

[3girls2luv]

Well we are going to start fixing our house up to get ready to put it on the market. I was planning on redoing the kitchen cabinets but the appraiser said to wait until she looked at every thing and she would tell us where we could make improvements to help increase the value instead of putting our money into something that won't increase the value. So we might not have to do much since the floors are less that 5yrs old and we just painted last year. The outside may need some painting but we will wait till the weather gets cooler.

[Babyblue]

we live in a 200 year old farm house that was rented and trashed for 40+ years and then sat abandoned for a while. fil had first moved dh out to the farm to make sure it didnt turn into a abandoned place that teenagers went to drink and destroy.

we now have a use able bathroom and the apliances work most of the time. I am patching it up and replastering and repainting one room at a time. 90% of the hillbillies trash has been thrown out or burned. the bags of trash once stood 6 feet high in most of the house backyard and side yard.