Recommendation - Move Out #mfrwauthor

Welcome to Week 23 of the MFRW 52-week challenge. The topic is "Your thoughts if you've ever been through a renovation (or watched one on television)."

As to whether I've ever been through a renovation or watched one on television? The answer is "yes" and "yes." I admit to watching "This Old House" from the days of "sweat equity" to more recent seasons where professional contractors did all the work and the project ended with the home stages for a wrap party.

As to having been through a renovation.? During the three decades we lived in our 1915-era home, we renovated it room by room. And depending on the room did a lot of the work. It might be everything form demolition to sheet rocking, and painting to wiring. The professionals handled things we weren't comfortable with such as plumbing, or shaping and installing a kitchen counter top.
 

My advice to those planning a major renovation:

Book a hotel room

Send your pets to a kennel or doggy spa. During the bathroom renovation our wandering cat slipped through the hole where the pipes had been to explore the space between the ceiling and the floor above. Removing a suspended ceiling, sheetrock, and plaster and lathe to give him an escape route didn't help. He just jumped the beams to another section. The scent of tuna fish finally lured him close enough to the opening and a quick grab pulled him through the hole.

Figure it will take twice as long and cost twice as much to finish

Keep the menu to a good takeout place close to hand. Our go to place was the local fishery. Since it was served in paper plates we didn't have to wash the dishes. A good thing since during the kitchen renovation we had to wash pots and pans, and our dishes in the bathtub. An added bonus was we got to relax as we ate our dinner on the waterfront pier and watched the sunset.

~till next time, Helen


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