hey Mike um okay so here's a little tour of um Jen's future new house so this is at 22 Fisk half mile away from probably where you're going um okay so I'll make a list of this as I go but maybe some things big and small you could take a look at um one I think um first off I would probably take the side of this driveway and I don't think there's another picture of it uh hold on i wonder if I could change oh good yeah I don't think they have a picture on the side i think the driveway needs to be a little wider in the first place but secondly I think the dumpster would probably be best served in between these shrubs and the driveway so eventually I think if we could just throw some gravel in there to increase the parking and then maybe we could put the dumpster on it either you know maybe Gati could come in and you know pull out the mulch and put some gravel um or just throw the dumpster on there but I think that's where we could put the construction dumpster so we don't jam up the driveway so that's the first thing um and that's that's pretty much it um if we have an electrician in we might want to look at uh the area how it goes into the house i know that the the guy that was there was saying that the way it's looped um there's potential for water leaking down through he did pull both panels and said that he didn't see anything going on crazy so apparently it hasn't leaked so far but we do need to put some putty but he said it could get in up there so that was one just thing i think I don't know if the flashing's okay around the chimney um but that's that um things looking fine here he said that the top step was a little loose um but I'm not sure i didn't check that so when you first walk in the house there's a small staircase um I've been thinking about this so each step the first one's a little short the second ones are about like eight and a quarter and then the top step is like 10 inches or so so you trip yourself when you when you hit the top step so I guess some of the solutions would be to pull up each um tread and maybe add an eighth of an inch all the way up or add a little bit more as you go add an eighth and you know I don't know a little more and a little more a little more until it gets a little bit higher till you get to the top and then you bridge that gap and then maybe change the face of the the stair tread you know a little bit each time i'm not sure but it's it's like a death hazard it's just a death wish at the top so that's one thing these um spindle things are as ugly as so they they need to probably go over here on the right hand side there's going to be a fireplace that you see on the I'm sorry the lefth hand side the fireplace um I'm guessing Jen's going to want to pull this bookcase out cuz it's you know kind of aged but this wall that you're looking at straight ahead um that's the the other side of that is the kitchen and so my thought was like just blow that wall out right and make the um right where that radio is that's where the stove is the oven um make uh the counter on on our side that we're looking at just a little bit higher so you put like higher bar bar stools up so you can't see the oven you know but there's there' be an open space and you could look out to the back of the house which is really nice and opens up the kitchen gives her a spot for that island and those bar stools which she wouldn't have in this house um and opens up that that floor plan so um we'll take a look at that i don't know what the next picture is so let's see what we got okay here we go so um the fireplace she's going to want to take uh and run propane into this house so the existing stove is electric and this fireplace is is natural wood so the hope is to put a propane tank on the side of the house um the basement's unfinished run a propane line up to uh the the stove the oven and the um the gas insert um rip this mantle off build something you know contemporary paint the brick put a you know wood like a non-combustible mantel like I have um you know make this look like it's from at least you know 2000s um so that's that okay um probably ripped the bookcase out is what I'm thinking uh but again I didn't ask her about that um you see the duck work here so right underneath here unfortunately is where the heating duct work is so the inspector that we spoke with um said that to open up obviously this wall probably going to need to put like three LVL's across um to head that off and probably you know a down a down um what do you call like a column right on the edge of where that door is right at the end of the island right here um the floor has a little sag right here but unfortunately it probably has that sag too because it wasn't supported properly in the beginning and then the conflict is that there's the heating the duct work is right there so the problem would be I think is you'd have to kind of rerun how the duct work is configured it's an oil furnace it's from like 1985 but it it's probably like just this mother trucker who just is going to run probably for 20 more years it's like one of those old school things um so that's just going to have to be a workaround i mean I think it's possible it's just going to be It wasn't as straightforward as it needed to be right from the beginning okay um so that's that um the other view so I don't know what the hell this this piece of wood is that surrounds it's the weirdest thing Mike it's so weird and then these things so like I know you need something but could it just not be that that is just it's just horrendous right um so there you go so the kitchen's nice it's cool so you know let's keep all of that and then looking at the stove and the oven you know the the hood would have to go right because if we blow out that wall right there so we'd lose the upper cabinet we'd lose three upper cabinets um guessing you could do something on the back side but probably not i I don't know how you do something on the back side of the upper you might be able to um to put storage on the other side but um you know just face off the keep the keep the cabinets keep the countertop put a new stove in um and then just put a you know raise it however many inches you guys normally do that and then put a a counter up a little bit higher on the other side and just open up that wall um you know then cover it like a an exposed beam kind of thing over those lvls just put some something over it to make it look like you know good beam cool um there you go that's that so I don't know how much space that would be to take out um and how you do that that'd be open yeah okay that's good everything's good there um good nice right so you see why you see how cool that's going to be when it's open so imagine like standing at the front door and being able to look through and see that like it's nice it's airy it's bright there's a nice deck off the back um there's potential rot in see that's nice too right jenna thought about Well I thought about but I'm thinking she's thinking differently about it the wall i don't know if you could see it hold on can't see it can't freaking see it there's a wall like right here okay so I see the bookcase and you see that little wall like right there taking that like wall out i don't I don't think it's a gable end right and I don't think it's um a big deal taking that out so that you could you could see more of that glass like more through out to the backyard but I think that's going to lose too much of her TV wall on the other side so I think that's like on the table for like debate if that's going to happen or not so I mean you know maybe we'll price it out see if it's possible but who knows okay so that's that that here now on this deck I don't know what the hell they did they just put like they put like um PT just straight on the ground fine built built a weird deck like you have to like step down into the garage it's just weird you don't really step off of this level but then you step down into the garage when you get out of the garage you have to actually leave the garage and walk out onto the deck because this is the this room right here is the breeze breezeway but there's no door from the garage to the house they just made it just a separate room so you actually have to um let me back up you have to leave the garage um where is it leave the garage and come in this deck right here has a soft spot i think one of the boards underneath is rotted it's like a asc it's like kind of really flimsy so I'm just wondering if we could just peel back a couple of them and just see like it feels like one uh one of the boards is shot the rest of them didn't feel bad to me so maybe it's just like we could just make one of them better okay so this is the main floor this is the master bath for the whole house so ideally what um she's looking to do is we'll get rid of this pedestal sink um I know the plumbing's up a little bit high so she's looking to put like just a vanity a small vanity in have to be really small um and there's that black and white tile so when the tile person comes in um to do the upstairs we're hoping that like we could just she could just rip out the tile or he or whoever can rip the tile out and um put some new tile in on that floor the bathroom's super small i I don't know the I didn't take the measurements Mike but it's like you you know like I don't even know five by a 5x5 space at most maybe so nothing happens there nothing happens there it's guest room okay so now this is the upstairs okay and I'm going to show you the the floor plan but the upstairs um just has a single toilet and a single uh sink and that's it so no shower nothing it also has a heating duck work that goes kind of up into it i don't know if there are any pictures of it this is like the master um you know guest or master suite or bedroom whatever you want to call it and then that's like the side room so looking at that right there like looking at that window straight ahead that's where I want to put the washing machine with the plumbing on the left so see where those picture frames are like just right on the left side wall that wall is the the back of the sink so there's your water supply so like imagine the washer in there and then the dryer is where that chair is so they're kind of like on a 90 facing each other and then we would put like some type of um wall um down where that you know at the at the edge of the angle right and she'd have like a little shelving unit you know on the on the side on the right hand side of the dryer and then the dryer inside of there so there's her washer dryer unit um where that sink is right now we'd want to just take take the wall down that's facing us um and extend it and put a double sink so the plumbing's kind of in place the joists are running um from the window toward us right so you know we could do that leave the toilet in the same spot um the problem right here is when you're looking at the heating duck you see on the left um that's going to need to be taken out and again like obviously the joists are right there so it's going to have to kind of be put into the floor like in between where that wall is and where the door is it's going to have to be like kind of put in the floor and pointed upward but and in that spot right there where that wall is we're going to bump we're going to take that out and that's where the I want the shower to go okay so let me see if I can have any more pictures um the area on the This is kind of standing at the top of the landing of the stairs looking to your right um so where the chair is is where the dryer is going to be it's gonna be like a little room right and then where the TV is going to be like if you draw like take a plumb bob and take it from the the ceiling where it angles down on the right you know you draw a line like that would that needs to be built into a closet so that whole area is going to be like you know places to put you know like uh shelves and you know hanging spaces and all that kind of stuff and then at the end which you can't see like kind of where we're standing on the other side of like the door like imagine we just open the door there's a there's a closet we just want to rip that out cuz it's just gross and dark and just open it all up and just make that area like closet so this flooring would have to come out it's not hardwood underneath i open I looked at it the rest of the house is hardwood but that this room is not so some of it would become bathroom tile and then the rest of it would be whatever i don't know whatever you guys pick so okay oh there's the deck um that one board is kind of like the bottom right hand corner you can almost see the wave in the thing from this picture um what else oh there's the driveway picture see where the mulch is there yeah so there you go so there are no basement photos oh wait hold on hold on this so this is the floor plan for the whole house let's just go this one first okay so this was just me um I blew the whole So if you look between the family room and the living room and the kitchen like I took the whole wall out cuz I'm like let's just knock the bookcase out and like let's knock the wall out i don't think we're going to be able to do any of that so you know you could just redraw that wall in your mind if you want or you can take part of it out if you think that's feasible i just think like I think Jen has a TV that she wants to mount in there so I'm not really sure but anyway you could see the kitchen how you know I raised that little island and I put the two bar stools or whatever um you can look to the right you could see that full bath you could see how small that space is so just you know kind of factor in maybe a retile of that floor um and then you know I would say just calculate underneath there's going to be a pain in the ass with moving the duct work with the heating system and then there's going to be the LVL's and all that kind of stuff with supporting the sagging the already sagging area there because it's not supported properly anyway okay and then let's look at the upstairs one more time hang in there i'm almost done you're probably like "Denise can you shut the hell up?" Um this is the original upstairs design right so there's the master bedroom closet and there's that little area where the heater is right and there's like a useless They don't have the bump out right here useless bumpout for the door that gets in the way of the bed it's really stupid so that needs to go um there's that closet that makes no sense to just knock that out and open that area up right here's what it looks like okay so then here's what I came up with because Okay so here's here's put the shower in now I think the shower needs to be a 5ft shower so this is a 6ft space this is like a 6x 32 like you get like 36 in but I think it needs to be a 32 in like a 5 by 32 in pan like um cast iron pan right and the plumbing all goes up here by the toilet um and then in that last foot before the door that's where that heating vent would come out we could put some shelves in um probably a pocket door just because of the space right and then a double vanity right here cuz that wall gets bumped out washer dryer okay um and then like the door was originally like over like just kind of move the door so it it spins off the sha the new shower corner so it's gets away from uh a larger bed and swings orients the other direction so that there's just room to like get in the room and get into bed okay that's all I got okay so if you can like just listen I this not an exact science i get that like if you could just take a little time and just ballpark like just ballpark it you know and just say like it's this give or take 10 grand or it's this give or take five grand or it's this give or take 20 whatever and then and then it's like hey it's like I don't know two months give or take couple weeks or it's like 3 months or it's like 10 months or it's like a month cuz we're in town right it's not a bad job or whatever jen coaches at um Welsley College um she's basketball so her season really starts cranking up like in September um so that's like the the pressure point for her um is is that that time right to get kind of back and settled in so she can focus on her team but you know whatever all right so there you go thanks bud talk to you soon