Remodel Updates

We are well on our way. We have had some help from friends and family and it has made things go a lot smoother. Katie has the bathroom all painted except for the trim, the laundry is 95% painted, and the kitchen and living room ceilings should be done today. Painting will take a little longer than we had planned because the sprayer we were going to borrow is not available. It is moving along pretty well though. I got the floors prepped for tile in the bathroom and laundry. Tonight I will do the rest of the prep, and if I am not painting I will probably start laying some full sheets in the laundry and maybe in the bath. We will see. I don’t know how Katie is handling the long days, but I am loving it. I get in there and get into work mode and I don’t want to stop. Now, the next morning when I have only had 5-6 hours of sleep it’s a whole different story…
Katie’s dad came up last Saturday and helped us with a wiring issue on our well. We had lost one of the 110 legs out to the pump house and had no water for a couple weeks. We were able to find where a rodent had chewed the wire. We made a splice and put in a junction box to the well. I can do a lot of things, and even some electrical, but I had no experience with wells and was a bit nervous that I may screw things up so I was so grateful that Dave was able to come up and give a hand for a few hours. Katie has a great family that is so supportive and willing to help out.
I think that I should have the tile (at least on the floor) done by the end of the weekend. I want to get the bathroom laid tomorrow so that we can grout on Friday and Katie can have a toilet on Saturday. I guess it is a little bit more of an issue for her to just go behind the juniper???
I do think that we should have a lot of equity in this home. When they did our appraisal they said that the home was 867 sqft. That did not seem right to me at all since I thought it was closer to 1200, but I assumed that I must be way off. Well, when the carpet guy came out and pulled measurements on Monday, he told Katie it would be 950 sqft of carpet. That sure didn’t make sense since we are doing about 300 of tile and the house is supposed to be 900… Well, the guy was nice enough to check the outside measurements and he came up with 1300+. That is just a little bit different right… I guess it helps on our taxes. So if you take the amount per sqft from the appraisal then it looks like we have about 35-40 thousand of instant equity… I do not know if that is totally true, but I thing after our costs for upgrades we would be around 20. I think we did ok as long as the place keeps standing…