Missouri. Zone of totality. Might be too much of a commute for your properties.
Just got back from a 10 day much-needed vacation. Living in a construction zone is not for the faint of heart. This week was interior painting (SW agreeable gray for everything except the bathroom where we went with SW Rhinestone) and cabinet installation. Next week our floors go in, the bathroom gets tiled and they will hang the new doors. Evidently we are in track for 9/1 completion. Woo hoo!
Dh would undertake a major remodeling project in a heartbeat if only we could find someone who could complete it in a reasonable amount of time. Our last project was supposed to take no more than 8 weeks and took over 8 months. Friends have recently passed the one year mark on their 5 - 6 mos. project. They were told the problem is with the scarcity of framers, electricians and plumbers. Many went out of business during the crash and the ones left canāt handle the demand so their house sits empty while they wait and wait for completion.
Iām wondering whoās doing this DIY while still going to work, lol.
I just finished a gut reno for a pied-Ć -terre. Took almost 6 months instead of the usual 8 weeks. Contractor said he usually worked on 2 jobs and he had 6 while doing mine also. I stayed with both kids on and off for 10 weeks while supervising the work and flying back home in between. It was mentally exhausting, very stressful.
Now, my house needs a total renovation if we plan to stay here forever. Plans are drawn but I will wait till this building boom subsides a little. I just hope my roof holds up, been patching it for the last few years.
We do, @lookingforward ! By the time we are done with House2, Mr. can add to his resume that he has installed 4 ovens, 2 cooktops, 3 warming drawers, 4 dishwashers, 1 over island hood, 1 built-in microwave, and 1 downdraft (in the three houses we owned). And 2 toilets and 7 sinks plumbed, and possibly more to come. If I begin to list the outdoor projects we did, it will not fit on one computer screen. 
As we found, it is so much easier and faster to do it yourself than be at the mercy of contractors. As I said earlier, we donāt do siding, windows, shower doors, and kitchen counters. And we donāt take out stumps 5-6 feet in diameter, lol. The rest is our turf - all done while working full time.
I think itās sexy when men do that stuff. (Ok, not so much my friendās husband, who never quite seems to fully āclean up.ā Thereās always some dust sbout him.) There was the time DH changed out an elec socket.
Pros donāt clean up either! They assume that if they take off the shoes and put some plastic on the floor, it will be enough. The amount of dirt I shampooed out of the carpet in our basement would have been enough to fill a garden bedā¦
The worst about the prosā¦ When House1 was being built, the tile people would show up and scratch the paint on the walls. The painters would come, curse, and touch upā¦ and leave paint splotches on the tile. It was never ending.
Meant personal cleanup, lol.
I once wired in a new circuit breaker into a live electrical panel.
Just sayinā 
B-)
It has always been a dream of mine to have a husband who wanted to buy an old house and work on it nights and weekends with me. Sighā¦isnāt happening.
Mine can change out an elec socket though. Other than that, Iām the one working from home and supervising contractors the last 20 years, so I have a lot more construction knowledge than him.
Built a house 20 years ago and the construction and workmanship is nowhere comparable to that of my 1905 house. Not even closeā¦
NRE - are you Mr. Bās twin separated at birth? 
There is a reason I keep my cpr skills up to dateā¦
I have beengetting a lot of construction education recentlyā¦ herding contractors is worse than herding cats.
It would have been lovely to be the architect married to the handyman. But alas it was not to be. DH is okay with the electrical stuff, they do that in the lab, but otherwise itās the hired help. Iāve never had a job that didnāt take at least as long as the contractorās thought it would. I think itās partly the way they count the time. Itās true I could cook in my kitchen for Christmas, but half the cabinets were missing and the countertops were all temporary pieces of plywood. And we had no finished floor. As someone who has thought architectural plans would be finished long before they actually were, Iām willing to cut some slack.
Hope the dumpster filling at @notrichenoughās new place has been successful!
I couldnāt have done any of the stuff weāve done to our house over the last five years if it werenāt for our wonderful contractor Richard. Once you have the right person, itās easy. Without the right person, itās stressful.
The problem is finding the right person. Iād give a body part to make sure Richard is always available no matter where we live!
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Hmm, not the first time lately that a post disappeared after hitting submit. Iāll repost later but the first line was a smiley to VeryHappy.
OMG, you guys would not believe how disgusting this carpet and padding is. Large areas are just black with mold, pounds of sand and dirt. It looks like there were some roof leaks at some point that got the carpet pretty wet, and the mold went to town.
Ugh. Itās almost all out though.
Debating if I want to have someone come in and sanitize everything.
You should! Mold is not something to mess with. Glad to hear that the disgusting crap is out.
Yeh, mold can live past what seems to you like an obvious cleaning. And your efforts can spread spores.
Mr. B wanted to take on the attic cleanup at our new place. After carefully weighing what he needed to get to do the job, he called the pros. A couple of dudes in moonsuits did the job in a few hours! It was not cheap, but we figured it was money well spent. By doing it ourselves, we would have saved $800. Not worth it.