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[Lemon Cheesecake]

See if there is a habitat for humanity restore near you & you may be able to pick up building or home items for cheap to restore your home.

They also have DIY advice on restoring your home.

https://www.habitat.org/restores

[galled]

Dad's annoyed cuz the sale is meant to be as-is and significantly under market value and they want all this

If no one was living there you might get away with as is. Unfortunately thems the rulz...

Other than the plywood floor, they're all safety code issues. The floor may be one too, but I would think installing carpet or whatever in that area would suffice. In the end, fixing safety issues are good things.

[Kitalpha Hart]

As is means that o ly the potential fire hazard and the railings need to be done
The back room has a floor, it's just not a "finished" floor. Been walking on it for years
Yeah the subfloor is absolutely dogshit but we're using cheap peel n stick carpet tiles to cover it until it's all approved, since that's gonna be a changeover
But the vast majority of the stuff is cosmetic

[Kitalpha Hart]

Kitchen has no floor by their standards right now

[Lemon Cheesecake]

Just so that the floors are strong enough that you won't fall through!

[Kitalpha Hart]

They are
Subfloor is good. It exists

[galled]

Building code for kitchens differ from other rooms since water, fire, high heat, ventilation, high voltage, etc., are there. It's not just structural (or aestetics).

[Kitalpha Hart]

And they're still being pricks about selling the house "as is" and if we want to talk about that, the bathroom needs a gut and redo but they completely missed that

[Kitalpha Hart]

Back room and mud room have carpet tiles
Kitchen has been retiled, just gotta figure it where the garbage can is going cuz the old spot under the island was removed (don't want it, just a junk collection zone) and the spot before that no longer has the space cuz this stove is larger than the prior
Railing has been reinstalled
Ceiling fixed (mostly. Dad has one spot left to redo)
Basement railing reinstalled (tbh likely gonna remove it once the sale is complete)

Bonus thing: front porch step that needed to be redone 20 years ago and had a temp step for ~15 is finally being redone. My brother managed to get hit on the forehead with a tiny stone and got blood all over his shirt. He finds it hilarious that he was wearing an Assassin's Creed 3 shirt, so the blood is at least appropriate
The step is currently missing entirely but once we get some good weather dad's gonna rebuild it

Dad also plans on ripping out the floor of the bathroom and redoing it. And replacing the toilet, since it's never been changed out and is so old it doesn't even flush properly anymore

[Lemon Cheesecake]

Sounds like it is coming together and will be nice for you !

[Kitalpha Hart]

It'll be better once my parents are moved out and I can rearrange things as I like
Got a ton of stuff I haven't opened cuz no space for 'em

[Gingerale]

That will be fun! Opening them will be like Christmas or your birthday!

[Kitalpha Hart]

Except none of it is wrapped lol
And I gotta rearrange what remains first

[galled]

Progress!

Why would you remove the basement railing?

Sorry for your brother. Lucky something more serious didn't happen (like an eye).

Glad the safety stuff has been handled.

[npixelz]

I echo galleds statement about your brother, I'm glad it wasn't worse