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[andpuff]

I just let Renovation -- 69th Worldcon -- know that I won't be attending after all. Given the house situation, spending that much money would be irresponsible. Also, being away while work is being done would mean that I'd return to a yurt and confused cats. Fine, control issues are the real reason I'm staying home, not the money. Happy

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[e_moon60]

Control issues are good things to have when someone's working on your house...it may annoy the workpersons, but if left to their own devices they'll try to "improve" the plans they were given. (On my mother's boss's house, they decided to shorten a large water line by running it across an open space, rather than around it. The architect had specified the line to go around the space because the owners wanted to put in a pool there later, when the kids were older. Plumbers did not tell anyone, including the general contractor or for that matter their own boss (who should have caught it, but didn't.) Later, when the time came to dig the hole for the swimming pool...guess what? Given the deep alluvial soil there, it sank the digging machine as soon as it hit the pipe.)

Warning from her past that you probably already know (but control issues figure here, too): make sure you like the plans before they start. Change orders cost.

[dreamtigress]

This.

I have learned time and again that one does NOT leave the house unattended when there are contractors about. Even if it's just to confirm a bit of info or answer a question, being around is a very good thing !

Especially if it avoids your new deck being two inches too high, so that you trip and fall onto it the first time you see it...

[e_moon60]

Oh, that's an ouch!

Yeah, the people who are actually doing the work may not grasp the "why" of "this has to be here" until it's explained more than once. And then you want to watch. If only it were all as smooth as "This Old House" or some of the other homebuilding/home renovation shows.

Best of luck with yours, including the financing thereof.

[dreamtigress]

This Old House has the benefits of EDITING.

[e_moon60]

So true. If my life came with Editing, it would look a whole lot more like a story. Unfortunately, editing usually means shortening, and I'm happy to have all those years (um...unless editing out the bits where the editor says "Nothing's really happening here...cut, cut, cut" would mean that I'd get to where I am YOUNGER. Still bouncing when I fall, etc. Now that has possibilities...)

[dreamtigress]

I once was filmed for nearly nine hours of footage for a TV show, and my segment was only 6 minutes long on the finished episode. I WISH my work went as fast as those 6 edited minutes suggest. TV Magic !