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~$6500.
That's what it's going to cost to replace the leaking shower. And that's without any other remodeling at all. They have to rip out all the existing stuff, replace the shower assembly and pop in one of those prefab acrylic things, and that's all pretty costly. It's also going to take a while, since they have to wait ~3 weeks for the parts. So I guess we'll be showering down the hall for a while. Which is thrilling for me, since I can't easily get in and out of there.
So much yay.
We had one other guy today who was just going to fix the drain seal and open up the ceiling below to dry things out, but to be honest, I didn't feel good about just doing that. I want to be sure everything is OK there, and that's going to involve taking out the whole thing.
The other company I talked to wasn't interested in doing anything for us unless we were going to do a full, ~$32k remodel. He was also a complete ass about it, and assumed I was married and asked what my husband did for a living.
Um, no.
So we're going with a Home Depot (I know. Ugh.) company, who sent over a nice fella to explain the process and set us up with financing and such, and we signed on.
Technically, we could've put this on the empty credit card, but they had a 6 months no interest dealio, which sounded better to me. I'm hoping I'm employed by the end of that time, so we can pay it off fairly quickly.
I hate this. I really, really hate this. It's not like I had anything else I wanted to do with that kind of money. Like, oh, save it up to pay adoption fees.
And the worst part is that there are other repairs we need, too, like fixing the flooring in the other bathroom. Which will also involve removing the tub in there, which will thus also cost about that much, if not more.
We've been in the house about nine years, and we've yet to have any really expensive repairs, so I guess we were due. Bleh.
That's what it's going to cost to replace the leaking shower. And that's without any other remodeling at all. They have to rip out all the existing stuff, replace the shower assembly and pop in one of those prefab acrylic things, and that's all pretty costly. It's also going to take a while, since they have to wait ~3 weeks for the parts. So I guess we'll be showering down the hall for a while. Which is thrilling for me, since I can't easily get in and out of there.
So much yay.
We had one other guy today who was just going to fix the drain seal and open up the ceiling below to dry things out, but to be honest, I didn't feel good about just doing that. I want to be sure everything is OK there, and that's going to involve taking out the whole thing.
The other company I talked to wasn't interested in doing anything for us unless we were going to do a full, ~$32k remodel. He was also a complete ass about it, and assumed I was married and asked what my husband did for a living.
Um, no.
So we're going with a Home Depot (I know. Ugh.) company, who sent over a nice fella to explain the process and set us up with financing and such, and we signed on.
Technically, we could've put this on the empty credit card, but they had a 6 months no interest dealio, which sounded better to me. I'm hoping I'm employed by the end of that time, so we can pay it off fairly quickly.
I hate this. I really, really hate this. It's not like I had anything else I wanted to do with that kind of money. Like, oh, save it up to pay adoption fees.
And the worst part is that there are other repairs we need, too, like fixing the flooring in the other bathroom. Which will also involve removing the tub in there, which will thus also cost about that much, if not more.
We've been in the house about nine years, and we've yet to have any really expensive repairs, so I guess we were due. Bleh.
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