July marks the 1 year of living in this newish house (its only 8 years old) well 9 months of it’s been living though renos. You think a newish house wouldn’t have any real problems but boy was I surprised that I picked a house that was in a lovely neighbourhood, the floor plan was somewhat what we wanted and it was done by a well known contractor company. Moving in I knew we had to gut the coffin bathroom BUT, I wasn’t expecting crappy workmanship the walls aren’t straight, they used the cheapest cabinets around, sub trades did not clean up after themselves (all their crap got covered by the lawn). Not sure why they didn’t include the height of the basement in the design when they added the bulkhead, so now it just looks an afterthought. Nor used the hot/cold vents all thought out the house instead of adding baseboard heating on the top floor. Sure its cost more for a bigger furnace but it saves the future of gutting walls (which I’d love to do one day).

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