We wanted to finish our utility room this summer. We had planned on doing the work ourselves on weekends off and during our week of vacation, giving us sufficient amount of time to get it done before winter set in. A friend of ours, someone that dh worked with volunteered to help us, or so I thought he was helping us until he took over the project and made it his summer project.
He gave us a verbal initial estimate, not telling us what it included and us being naive didn't ask. We just allowed him to do the work. We had anticipated since he started the second week of March that the project would be done by June. June came and went, still not done. July came and went still not done. Finally we gave him a date to be finished by and he was able to finish it.
At some point in late June, early July we had asked him for a estimate for the final cost of the project. He said he couldn't give us one. At that point we should have told him his services were no longer needed until we had that estimate but because we wanted this done and he was a 'friend' we left him finish.
Then a week after he finished, we received the final total due. Needless to say that it was way more than we had even anticipated. Now, I'm not stupid. I KNOW construction materials are very expensive, however, we had offered to buy a lot of the stuff and he said, no he'd get everything. Ahhh, hindsight is 20/20 isn't it?
Here are some before and afters of the utility room.
This is after the wall came down, it was between the dryer and the freezer.
The new level floor going in
The finished room
One of my favorite parts of it
From the other end
All in all, I love my room!!!
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