Posted July 10, 20168 yr Hi. I just bought a fixer upper home and need some help from those with experience here. The home is in suburban Miami. I need to fix just about everything. 1.5 baths, kitchen, floors, windows. Today I had a guy from Home Depot come to give me an estimate on impact windows. He quoted me for $10,300. I have 3 windows and a large sliding glass door in the back. 75% of the cost related to the glass door. Does anyone know if this can be done cheaper (still with permits, since I need them for insurance purposes) Also, for the time being I need to install screws under and above my sliding glass door and front door for hurricane shutters (again, for lower insurance), but have to remove security bars from the sliding glass door out back. Does anyone know how to remove those security screws that fix it to the home? I need to do it quickly to get a picture over to my home inspector. Plus, any handymen you guys have used and trust? (Doesn't need to be insured, just needs to do good work and be reasonably priced)
July 10, 20168 yr Get more estimates. Pit the contractors against each other. I don't have much experience with these things specifically, but I know people in Miami will take you for a ride if you give them the chance. Show no weakness. Bare your teeth. Growl at them. Shit in their shoes. But more than anything, congrats and good luck!
July 10, 20168 yr Author Buy an attachment to turn the toilet into a bidet. Trust me. I have it at home and miss it so much when I travel. It's like I don't even know how to wipe my ass anymore
July 10, 20168 yr Author Do not pay 10k for impact for that small of a project. Basically, you need to make a lot of phonecalls. Get quotes for the work you need done. Don't always go for the cheapest especially for bathroom work. Fuckers will go cheap and not put in moisture barriers or screw something up causing water damage. I'll pm u but u gotta wait till later in the week cause I'm on vacation. Perfect, man. Thank you. Yea, my parents paid two guys to make them a bathroom and they put the incorrect moisture barrier (they made a shower and the guys put in the barrier used for tubs) so they needed to fix it 3 years down. We used to have a great handyman but he moved back to his home country. We recently used another guy and he was sloppy as hell
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