March 2009 Weddings
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Ali
Two things:
1) Good luck with your meeting today!
2) Yeah, windows. They suck. We seriously need new windows upstairs but it's like, do we really want to drop 5K on a house we don't own when we could be putting that in savings for a down payment? Constant battle.
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Re: Ali
I posted above, but I ended up getting the date wrong for our meeting and drove there for nothing. It's next Monday.
Absolutely do not put new windows in a house you don't own. Are you renting or doing something like contract for deed? I would never consider upgrading something that expensive in a rental. Save that money girl! DH is planning on doing them himself, so for one window it's about $200 plus maybe an additional $100 for trim and supplies. Compare that to the $575 per window that Lowe's wants to charge us - umm yea, we'll just do it ourselves. (Or DH will at least. I'll supervise)
The Sand in My Snow Boots
The house is owned by DH's grandma. She would gladly pay to update the windows for us, but she won't let us pay her anything to live in the house so we feel really bad accepting things like that from her. We definitely don't want to put money into the house, but there are some things that just have to be done to make it livable for the next 5 years or however long it takes to save up to build. Our argument right now is whether to put a shower in the bathroom. My dad is willing to do the install, but DH thinks it will cost too much.
$575 PER WINDOW??? That is highway robbery! We were going to have Home Depot do our kitchen cabinets (M/FIL were going to pay for this) and they told us in order to put in the cabinets they had to upgrade our plumbing and electrical on top of it. We told them not to bother with an updated quote.
Oh, that makes it kind of different then. DH is going to try to install the windows himself. We priced them out at Lowe's, and they're really only $200 a piece for a double hung, tilt in, vinyl replacement window (vs the kind that you keep your frame and just pop in the new glass). So we figure $300 w/the vinyl trim outside and wood trim inside. Plus a weekend of DH's grandpa's time, since he has window experience and we should be able to accomplish this for much, much less.
I know your DH is busy with the farm, but if he could set aside a day to do one or two with your dad, or another handy person, should be a lot less expensive.
Is there already plumbing and everything for a shower, or would you have to put that it? Ours already had the plumbing since it was an existing shower already, so it was really easy. Just time consuming.
The Sand in My Snow Boots
Having someone with window experience is going to be SO helpful.
We have an existing bathtub, so it wouldn't be THAT much work. My dad said it would take a long weekend. We would have to buy a shower surround and there is a window there so we would have to waterproof it. I told Clint if it's $200 or less I think we should do it. My parents won't stay at our place longer than a day because they don't like to shower in our basement; it creeps them out. My folks may even help us out with the cost because when my dad brought it up I said "Well, our anniversary is coming up..."
And don't give DH too much credit. It's winter. He's not THAT busy. In his defense, my dad often thinks things are going to take way less time than they actually do because he is a perfectionist, so when he says "long weekend" we could be talking several weeks of my dad driving up to our house on the weekends to work on it.
No kidding. Our shower was supposed to take a few weeks and here we are in month #3 of no upstairs shower. The end is in sight though!
I think a shower surround will cost more than $200. I'm not sure how much they cost w/out the bottom piece, but I'd definitely do some research. When we were looking for the whole thing to replace, they were $350+.
The Sand in My Snow Boots