How was your Maxwell House Vonbonfire

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Floyd Eye said:
I bought the house next to me for 5k. It was trashed but so what. Giant garage. Now I have a huge back yard. It’s that tan colored one at the back of this picture. View attachment 404991
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That's just a smart investment, trashed or not. If the bones are mostly good a remodel isn't that big of a deal. I built a 12x16 shed in 2021-22 for about 5k with metal roof and sides. I could quite happily live in something that size the rest of my life as long as I had a tool shed to store my bike, tools, and reloading equipment.
 
VonBonfire said:
That's just a smart investment, trashed or not. If the bones are mostly good a remodel isn't that big of a deal. I built a 12x16 shed in 2021-22 for about 5k with metal roof and sides. I could quite happily live in something that size the rest of my life as long as I had a tool shed to store my bike, tools, and reloading equipment.
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I remodeled it. Maybe 3k in material. Appraises for 120 now.


That building on stilts on the left? It’s 12x20. I bought it for $800. It cost me $1000 to get it lifted up onto my beams. 90 bags of concrete in those piers. Hand mixed in a wheelbarrow. It’s flood proof now.
 
Floyd Eye said:
I remodeled it. Maybe 3k in material. Appraises for 120 now.
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Heck yeah. 3k sounds like pre-covid material pricing.

Floyd Eye said:
That building on stilts on the left? It’s 12x20. I bought it for $800. It cost me $1000 to get it lifted up onto my beams. 90 bags of concrete in those piers. Hand mixed in a wheelbarrow. It’s flood proof now.
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I like it. I spent 5k cause the price of everything went crazy, especially corrugated metal (went from $11 to 25+), but I needed a shed cause I was sick of storing my saws and ladder in my living room.

I used 6x6's for the piers. Everything is solid rock here so the holes aren't all that deep but there is no real frost line and next to no ground shifting. I basically built it on the same plane as the house, and spent extra on matching windows so it's like the scaled down version of the main house. I used plywood for everything, not OSB. I need to build some stairs but the long game was just to extend my deck over to it so I can walk there bare foot. I'll have to get a pic for you one of these days. It could easily be finished out into a guest cabin, that was half the idea so I just rolled with that in mind.
 
VonBonfire said:
I agree. No point in working if you can't treat yourself to something you enjoy now and again but 5k on coffee is still crazy to me. I can stay home for almost half a year without working cause 5k would pretty much give us this day our daily bread.
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Interesting. How would you make $5k work for 6 months of living? No mortgage or rent?
 
Thumbpicker said:
You would barely get a 25 year old used car for that in Australia.
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You guys are like a bigger version of Hawaii with those prices. Sydney housing is probably more expensive than Oahu if the average is 1.5 million AUS.
 
Just sitting at my desk at work and come across this thread.
That is a sweet set up Thumbpicker!

My desk just gets some Folgers.
Starchild did a commercial for it so it’s good enough for me.
Not to mention, it’s good till the last drop.
Fairly accurate.
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VonBonfire said:
Heck yeah. 3k sounds like pre-covid material pricing.


I like it. I spent 5k cause the price of everything went crazy, especially corrugated metal (went from $11 to 25+), but I needed a shed cause I was sick of storing my saws and ladder in my living room.

I used 6x6's for the piers. Everything is solid rock here so the holes aren't all that deep but there is no real frost line and next to no ground shifting. I basically built it on the same plane as the house, and spent extra on matching windows so it's like the scaled down version of the main house. I used plywood for everything, not OSB. I need to build some stairs but the long game was just to extend my deck over to it so I can walk their bare foot. I'll have to get a pic for you one of these days. It could easily be finished out into a guest cabin, that was half the idea so I just rolled with that in mind.
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I bought that house 3 years ago.
 
dcburn mk.ii said:
Just sitting at my desk at work and come across this thread.
That is a sweet set up Thumbpicker!

My desk just gets some Folgers.
Starchild did a commercial for it so it’s good enough for me.
Not to mention, it’s good till the last drop.
Fairly accurate.View attachment 405014
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You could get some serious coffee extraction happening at the pressures of that gauge on your desk lol
 
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