Back in early July we closed on a mess of a house. The price was right, the rehab budget was 1.5x the purchase price, and so far we are over budget

Look at this beauty



Foundation got a complete redo, 20+ piers, all new timber around the perimeter and almost every beam underneath was replaced.

Not much to see, but you can see the damage, nothing was supporting the toilet except 2 sheets of laminate flooring.

Dayum brave man for buying that. Bet it’ll be nice once you’re done and good rental property. Is that you plan on it?

Rented a gas powered vacuum for the attic insulation. That was the only insulation in the house, nothing in the walls.



Dropped the sheet rock from the ceilings and walls, this is a full gut job and will make it easier in the plumber and electrician.

Today was fun. They definitely don’t build stuff today like they did back then. Front porch steps were poured in place and solid as hell, thankfully not metal was used. An hour with a 10 pound sledge and they were gone. Found 2 old railroad spikes in the front yard and used those to help split the concrete.

With steps


Without

Those are some mighty fine looking bones. You are doing a great job bud so keep up the good work.

Started building a gabled porch to help open up the front end. Worked alone most of the day, brother in law showed up with a replacement compressor after the pressure relief valve on my became stuck open.



Tomorrow I’ll finish the framing, roof sheathing, and maybe some trim work.

Keep it as a rental is the plan. Using the BRRRR method. Buy Rehab Rent Refinance Repeat. The goal is to be nothing out of pocket after we refinance

The ONLY thing worse than refurbishing and remodeling an old house, is refurbishing and remodeling an old house you and your family also live in.

I did it one time. NEVER AGAIN!!!

Looks like some of those house in South Dallas you could buy for 10K

Good bones, good plan and finish it all up with a good job.

Will you be removing that toxic old siding, or just covering it?

It ain't toxic unless you break it up. If you do replace it and since it's a personal residence, the land fill will take it - double wrapped of course. You can paint the stuff easily and Home Depot sells similar looking shingles not made out of asbestos.

you will never do this again

Those are $80k now

All the front will be removed, along with some of the side. Too hard to explain, so you’ll have to wait for pics. Going back with board & batten siding.

We had a company come out and test the house for asbestos. Some of the wiring, and siding tested positive. They didn’t seem interested in giving us a quote to remove it. He said it’s your house, you can remove it and dispose of it for free.

Finished up the porch enough for the roofers to get started. They will deck it. Set the stringers for the steps, ran out of lumber so had to call it quits.

Looking good.

Holy cow, it's worse than I thought, Lol. I should have done a thread on the one I just finished up. I can't imagine doing most of that yourself, but can't wait to see the finished project. Good luck!

It will be fine.

Breathe...move...breathe...move.

Before you know it, it's all done.

Yep. The inspector guy said there’s not enough in the house to harm me over the long run. I’m not worried.

I told you she was rough. I work until about noon or 1 most days of the week after getting off work at 6am.

I did that to an old farmhouse in NE Ohio that was built in 1860....the house pre-dated the civil war! Four year project. Put the kitchen where the living room was, put the livingroom where the kitchen was. Reduced the total room count by four opening it up. It had been remodeled in the 1960's and every bit of original character had been removed. Thin moldings, nasty lime green shag carpet... It had 5 different generations of wiring from knob n tube to modern romex...

Put back hardwood floors, 8" baseboards with 4" door frames. Fun but don't ever want to go through anything like that ever again.

Good luck Sir! It will be nice when you're finished!

A lot of work. Keep after it. Keep the pictures coming.

Will be fun to watch as you progress, that looks like a huge commitment, good thing you're young and have lots of free time!

Young(ish) yeah, free time is my 4-5 hours of sleep a day, haven’t quite figured out how to be productive during that time yet.