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Very interesting! Where did you learn all the skills you needed to get all of this work done? I'm curious if YouTube and Google was able to give you all the gui

by jjice 5y ago

Very interesting! Where did you learn all the skills you needed to get all of this work done? I'm curious if YouTube and Google was able to give you all the guidance you needed.

belugacat 5y ago
I’m also renovating a house, and before I started the closest thing I had done to that was assembling IKEA furniture. I have a few family members who know a ton about that stuff, and that’s been 90% of it for me. YouTube etc is helpful, but a lot of that knowledge is specific to your geographic region (especially when it comes to what sort of insulation/roofing/etc you want, especially if you’re renovating existing things that were done a certain way for a certain reason) so you really need local experts. I certainly wouldn’t have undertaken such a project if I didn’t have those family members I knew I could rely on.
city41 5y ago
We recently gutted our bathroom down to the studs/subfloor and redid it ourselves. No prior experience. YouTube and Google made it all possible. We did hire a plumber for the shower plumbing, anything that's going to be encased inside a wall it's good to get a professional in on. But everything else we did ourselves and it turned out great.
legohead 5y ago
I'm redoing the bathroom/shower purely from youtube videos. It has taken a long time, but I'm glad as I continued to learn things as I went along. I've learned how to: replace toilets, set backerboard and tile, copper plumbing/soldering (was fun once, but from now I'll use PEX), drywall, level&plumb a wall & floor, deal with a subfloor, make a shower mud pan (concrete/sand mix), slope everything and how water & waterproofing works (gravity vs capillary action), and probably a few other things. And all those things come with various clever tricks, code requirements, learning new tools...
NegativeLatency 5y ago
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1631868799 https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1631868799 I live in the US so some code stuff may be different but have found this book to be super helpful while working on my own house.

by jjice 5y ago

Very interesting! Where did you learn all the skills you needed to get all of this work done? I'm curious if YouTube and Google was able to give you all the guidance you needed.

belugacat 5y ago

I’m also renovating a house, and before I started the closest thing I had done to that was assembling IKEA furniture. I have a few family members who know a ton about that stuff, and that’s been 90% of it for me. YouTube etc is helpful, but a lot of that knowledge is specific to your geographic region (especially when it comes to what sort of insulation/roofing/etc you want, especially if you’re renovating existing things that were done a certain way for a certain reason) so you really need local experts. I certainly wouldn’t have undertaken such a project if I didn’t have those family members I knew I could rely on.

city41 5y ago

We recently gutted our bathroom down to the studs/subfloor and redid it ourselves. No prior experience. YouTube and Google made it all possible. We did hire a plumber for the shower plumbing, anything that's going to be encased inside a wall it's good to get a professional in on. But everything else we did ourselves and it turned out great.

legohead 5y ago

I'm redoing the bathroom/shower purely from youtube videos. It has taken a long time, but I'm glad as I continued to learn things as I went along. I've learned how to: replace toilets, set backerboard and tile, copper plumbing/soldering (was fun once, but from now I'll use PEX), drywall, level&plumb a wall & floor, deal with a subfloor, make a shower mud pan (concrete/sand mix), slope everything and how water & waterproofing works (gravity vs capillary action), and probably a few other things. And all those things come with various clever tricks, code requirements, learning new tools...

NegativeLatency 5y ago

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1631868799 https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1631868799 I live in the US so some code stuff may be different but have found this book to be super helpful while working on my own house.