Hi WEagle,
Managing a complete lower level remodel in Wisconsin.
I have gutted electrical, plumbing walls and load bearing walls of the two story home.
What was the garage will now be the canning/mud room and all of the walls that where the kichen, dining room and living room.
We built six shoring walls and took out 5 support poles and installed a 45 steel I beam with one exposed pole and two buried in the now 2x6 walls. What was the garage which had 4 support poles now only has 2 poles, also built into 2x6 walls.
It ttok the jack hammering of underground support pads and increasing the support pads from 2x2x1 feet to 4x4x1 feet.
The house was completely emptied on the lower floor.
One East side of the home (which views the Sheboygan River) all the walls and windows have been replaced by a wall of glass that runs the entire length of the house. The glass has 14 inch headers that are 20feet long We've added two 16 foot windows, one 9 foot window and a 42 inch entrance door. Where the two garage doors were, we've added steel supports and installed a10x7 foot EVO door. Some serious structural engineering.
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The windows were supposed to be delivered first week of December now looking like January. So we have plastic stapled to the new outside plywood walls. Meanwhile our radiant heat system is shut down on the lower floor as the installation of warm board nears completion. Fortunately, the weather has only been really cold for one week. This project will extend to April before we start phase II which will add an Octagonal "Great Room" on the west side of the house.
Meanwhile we have our kitchen moved upstairs into what was a family room doing double duty as our bedroom. The other three rooms are packed with lower floor belongings.
We'll have a basement under the Octgonal room and that will give us room for a move from Houston some day out in the future.
I very much miss the great friends and warme winters, but neither of us are getting younger. Time to make some big plans.
Besides those plans, I really miss finsihing up my car restorations.
Not to mention build a shop big enough to house our collection of old classic Chevrolets.
Gonna have to live to be 100! <smile>
I'm selling off Jan's IRA and getting my dividend payers (XOM and KMI) transferred to our joint taxable account today.
Sold her AMNF to raise cash in order to pay a huge ordinary income tax on the excess over her first RMD associated with her IRA. Really hate to do it, but it was tax free in the beginning and we all have to pay our fair share. Fortunately, AMNF gave us a windfall triple in that account, so it helped.
Trying to get her account closed, as my IRA begins RMD's next year. That will take several years to close out. Raise some cash and hope for a general market decline to transfer my dividend payers to my taxable account also.
Thanks for the shout out. Plenty of balls in the air.
I'm still tracking my clx studies, but not as intensely watching/trading as I have many interruptions.
Watching the market full time is not in the cards. Letting the dividends build and keeping cash in an ETF at Schwab.
Needless to say, your mojo numbers and everyone at the CLX stuff has really been a great aid.
You folks are guiding Cheif with incredible accuracy. I've been termpted to trade SOXL, but do not have the ability to watch it closely.
Thanks again!
Bob |
