Fix it up and Sell it!

As 2015 progressed we spent time fixing up our home prior to selling it. It didn’t give us a lot of time to enjoy things but enough to figure out what we liked and didn’t like. In February – March time frame we worked on our flooring. We had laminate installed in three rooms plus the hallway (600sqft) then three rooms carpeted (640sqft) for $6,651.05.

 Floor 1   Floor 2

This was a great and hard floor when all was completed. The Kaindl laminate is placed on a small pad (EVO 3 in 1 pad) which is over the under-lament (particle board for our house). We moved all the furniture into the bedrooms and main room for them to do this then moved it all back to help save some cost. The thing with laminate over hardwood or engineered wood–more echo! Definitely noticeable. At least we didn’t put down the Lumber Liquidators stuff that was on 60 minutes. Ours was made in Austria.

In the March – April timeframe we tackled the deck. I did the small paver landings which actually took quite a bit of time even at their small size. I guess I now understand why they charge $10-$15k to do a full deckscape. It is A LOT of labor and hauling heavy blocks–each one weighs about 8-12lbs. Good thing we have a wheelbarrow. Total cost for pavers and materials (rocks) was around $350.

paver 1  paver 2
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After the pavers we had a contractor build our Cedar deck (around $6,912). I tore down our original deck along with some help from Ezra and hauled it to the local recycle dump. Current picture shows deck not stained. After the deck cured about six weeks we stained it. Fence was also stained in May. We did it ourselves as it is very expensive to pay someone to stain the deck. The stuff we used cost about $50 a gallon–only the best.

deck1  fence stain

We sold the house at the end of June and moved out in July. Our new house is 24 years newer (only 15 years old now). Hopefully with a bit less maintenance.

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