JanChicago's Profile

These comments made me laugh, as I am sitting reading them with one hand in ice due to a tendon problem developed over years and years of doing just what spazgirl has done--saved myself some money and had a blast! We redid an ancient Florida farmhouse, did the wiring, the plumbing--it had never had an indoor bathroom--the kitchen. Here's how I did one window: I cut it out with a circular saw that was lying there and slapped some screening over it, and did dishes for a couple of years at that window watching baby otters play in the creek below.We finally got a real window to fit the opening. Then we re-did another house. Then I did one by myself, including a fish pond that was the talk of the neighborhood for years. I do not encourage others to follow this path, as they might have to have things perfect. Ours were not. But how we loved them, and I am, at 68, getting ready to put in concrete counters and bath in yet another house, and love this tutorial. Like one comment said, contractors don't get things perfect, either. And you practically have to do it yourself, at least once, to know what you want someone else to do. So just learn to do it, and do it, if you'd, like myself, rather. (I'm researching DIY home funerals, by the way, although I'll have to teach someone else to do it for me--this one time.)