5 Comments

1. 

   rodeman on May 2, 2011 at 8:33 am

   Can’t wait to see this finished project, particularly Tom’s exterior paint job.

2. 

   Peter on May 2, 2011 at 9:56 am

   Please sheath front and side interior walls with a minimum 3/4″ ply under drywall. That should slow a 9mm or .762 stray from the park.

3. 

   Lou on May 2, 2011 at 12:10 pm

   I would make the downstairs back a family room leading out to the yard/patio and the larger bedroom upstairs the Master. It’s a tradeoff I know but one that I would rather have.

   Otherwise a nice project and can’t wait to see the results.

4. 

   ewhac on May 2, 2011 at 4:26 pm

   Looks like it’s going to be lovely.

   Personal preference, since you’ve got all the walls open: Don’t bother with Cat.3; pull Cat.6 to every room, at least two drops each, preferably three (UTP cable should be fine). It’ll carry voice just great, and give you a gigabit backbone throughout the house.

   Put a gigabit switch (not hub) at the center. Unmanaged switch good; managed switch even better (lets you cut off the kids’ net access when they’ve been bad).

   Plenty of networking headroom for the foreseeable future.

5. 

   AL on May 3, 2011 at 11:34 am

   Here’s Redfin’s data sheet on this house. Looks like a Bank foreclosed last May at $309,414 and sold it twice before the 3rd sale was a charm after dropping the price to $220,000. Pictures from the listing show the ‘before demolition’ story. I see why the shed room in the back with an awful bathroom (pics 9 and 11) was a full demo:
   http://www.redfin.com/CA/San-Diego/405-27th-St-92102/home/5776067