Bet you didn't expect one of those fora while...
We have a long list of projects on our wishlist of things we'd like to do to our house. Years and years worth of projects. I wish I could be working on all of them right now, but with current circumstances, that's just not possible. In fact I'd pretty much come to terms with the fact that we wouldn't get anything done ever again. (Okay that's dramatic, but maybe for the next few years).
It always seems to happen this way. Whenever I get too confident in how easy something is going to be, it turns into something way more complicated. (Hello diabetes test!) So of course when the basement was supposed to take 3 weeks, but after the first week it looked like it would be done in a week and a half, that meant that OF COURSE it was going to take 5 weeks. Not because there was that much work, but because that's just what happens. People disappear, problems pop up and the electrician needs to come back THREE times.
Even once it was done, it took almost a full week for the team to come back and pick up their extra supplies that they'd left all over our garage. In my parking space. Which this ever-expanding pregnant lady got to maneuver around every day. Yay!
There's a reason you're always supposed to get multiple quotes when you're having anyone do work on your house. One of those reasons is, you never know when the first company you talk to is insane, even if they seem like the most well know and popular choice.
Two weeks ago we had Brian from Total Basement Finishing/Black Dog Builders come by to look at our basement. Brian's was a contractor, not just some creepy sales guy there to make us spend the most possible. I told him from the beginning that Tom and I were numbers people, and that was what was going to be important to us.
Does your house have a basement? How much time do you spend thinking about it? I guarantee it's not as much time as Tom and I have spent on our basement since moving into this house. It's not very big, or very useful (yet), but boy does it take up a lot of our time.
If you were to eavesdrop on us randomly, there's a pretty good chance you'd here us debating basement flooring options, or radon levels, or something else basement related. Mostly, we just want to get it to a point where we can put our shoes and coats there. It doesn't seem like much, but boy is it taking us a while!