I’m very close to signing a contract to get the program going. The last detail: pinning down the cost of the electrical work. In particular, the core upgrades necessary for the increased load that the renovation will put on the system.
Almost six months ago, I accepted my fate: this project is going to cost a lot more than I had hoped and anticipated. On the plus side, I’ve been waiting so long, I’m in a position to do that somewhat comfortably. But that doesn’t remove the feeling that everything is just that little bit out of reach.
After getting a bid roughly double the original labor and materials estimate, I figured it would at least be worth exploring what it would cost to do “everything,” meaning mostly adding a gut remodel of the apartment’s bathroom to my project scope.
The pandemic has thrown a wrench in just about every part of this project. Getting information from the potential cabinet companies took forever. It took forever to order the cabinets. It took forever to get the cabinets delivered and shipped. It took forever to even get me flooring samples when we got to that stage.
Then it took forever to find a contractor. The last six months, more or less, and not for lack of trying. The results of that process have thrown a wrench in the project. Either way, it’s going to be a lot more expensive than I had hoped. Thanks, pandemic.