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Gdetrailer
Aug 30, 2022Explorer III
The repairs and workmanship looks great, however, I can't help to think about all of the time, energy and money you will have wasted when down the road you decide to rip it down to frame and start from scratch again??
I have done one partial gut/rebuild and one total gut and rebuild inside and out just reusing floor and walls and new roof structure..
The second one cost me 10yrs ago $3,500 in materials and took me 9 months to complete.. No way would I consider blowing down to frame and building new from scratch now days at the current cost of materials. What I did was I kept the smaller one that I bought first and used it until the newer larger one was finished.. Then sold off the smaller one..
If you were planning to start from frame up, it would have been better to have done that before you spent time and energy rebuilding it..
I would have bought another old cheap one to temporarily use instead of doing it the way you did as now you will end up scrapping a lot of materials and all of your labor.. Shame too, it looks great.
I have done one partial gut/rebuild and one total gut and rebuild inside and out just reusing floor and walls and new roof structure..
The second one cost me 10yrs ago $3,500 in materials and took me 9 months to complete.. No way would I consider blowing down to frame and building new from scratch now days at the current cost of materials. What I did was I kept the smaller one that I bought first and used it until the newer larger one was finished.. Then sold off the smaller one..
If you were planning to start from frame up, it would have been better to have done that before you spent time and energy rebuilding it..
I would have bought another old cheap one to temporarily use instead of doing it the way you did as now you will end up scrapping a lot of materials and all of your labor.. Shame too, it looks great.
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