You're fine. Just pick one project at a time. I sure as hell wouldn't give anyone that list of things you want done. How old is your roof? Can you shingle over the existing roof or do you need a complete tear off? You need to have a friend tell you that if you don't know before you get bids. When was the last time the exterior of your house was painted? Is that paint flaking off now? Find a place where you can see multiple layers/colors of old paint. Pick off a flake of paint at each layer and taste it to see if it tastes like butterscotch.
Need a complete tear off. That's why my father in law who's and architect thinks thats the perfect time to do the dormers. Hasn't been painted in 15 years. Before we moved in, and it's in bad shape.
Fuck a house yo. Once the kids move out buy a black turtleneck and get a sick penthouse in the Pearl and spend most of your your time lounging in Spain wearing shorts and no underwear. Who wants the fucking hassle
Sell it, you'll dump lots of money into what is basic maintenance. Will not increase the value of your house. Ride the overly hot market and fuck over some Californians wanting the "Portland experience"
If you only got all of that done this summer that would be a major accomplishment. Protects started and completed. You'll learn a lot and then in the fall or next year you can move on to other things on the list.
This is el prez wanting to move back to Portland! If you love the place, fix it......don't sell it to a Californian so you have to move to the burbs .....!
You need the old paint scraped off, damage/rot patched and then primered. Then you need two coats of paint rolled and brushed on. Not sprayed. Read the bids you get carefully. The lowest bid is not what you want.
@riverman is going to tell you to mix patchouli oil and sage into your paint. Don't listen to that old hippy.
If you want to go even further...before 2 coats of primer...countersink any nail heads and putty them, caulk the molding and baseboards...window and doors...then paint...Z primer is indestructible...get a paint that has some pigment in it...those pastels don't wear well..
You really want to know your wiring can handle a 20 amp circuit. Hard to tell without seeing the gauge of the wires. 14 gauge is good up to 15A, 12 gauge up to 20A. Plus you mght do like I did and have all the plugs in the kitchen 2x2 instead of the normal 2. So you have enough to plug in a few appliances.
House is two years old, whole thing has plastic pipe, have no idea if the fire stuff is metal. Never thought about it.
Hey! This reminds me guys. Home Depot is not too reliable for electrical supplies! In November I helped my son do a wiring job out to another building separate from the house. Needed some bare copper wire to run from the electrical box in the building to the UVIS ground rod. I wanted 12 gauge bare wire but they had none. So I asked for green insulted 12 gauge. She whipped a 100' package on me. I was real pleased, it was cheap. When I got to check out, standing there waiting, I was looking at the wire a bit, in a clear plastic package. Then It hit me, the friggin wire was about 16 or 18 gauge, even though it says 12 gauge right on the package. Of course the check out clerk had no idea what I was talking about, so we got the manager. Sure enough, we ran a sizing on the wire with a gauge. The insulation on the wire was 12 gauge size, the wire was 16. Damn man! That won't due!!
Says Asian burbian that moved to SoCal to find his accelerated hipster SoCal version of the Portland Experience.... FAMS!!
A running joke with me and the wife, I tell her that is I didn't have her and the kids, I'd have a dope loft in the Pearl. Where I could park my Range Rover IN the loft FAMS!
