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I am pretty happy with what I have, what I dont have that would be nice/practical to have is a downstairs toilet/washroom..
We just have the one main family bathroom upstairs, but for elderly relatives, and those times both of us (three of us when daughter is home from uni) want the toilet at the same time, or ones legs are tired, would be nice
I often feel the urge and cant be bothered to climb the stairs
Amazing actually how it goes away from laziness for hours on end
$5000 wouldn't put much of a dent in all the work this house needs. House was built in 1911 and still has a lot of the original wiring. Price for rewiring so far is around $16,000 (2 story house). Would also like to replace all the lead glass windows, all 27 of them. lol That's another $10K+, but they could have them all replaced in a day and a half. Plus we have radiators for heat and our heater repairman said all those pipes from the furnace have been building up a lot of corrosion over the years.
As far as the $5000, I agree with another poster who said they'd get new appliances. I could replace all the appliances in our kitchen and laundry room and still have enough for us to go out for a nice lunch while the appliances are being installed. lol
I own my apartment here in the city and have an exposed brick wall in my bedroom, Id love to have it SOUNDPROOFED and then re-bricked again, and I mean sound proofed......
OMG, how I'd like to never hear anyone's footsteps behind my bed again. LOL
Nothing I want or need done would cost less than that. But if I'm just got free money and HAVE to find something to spend it ion….
-- replace a gutter
-- add fresh insulation to the attics
-- have a handyman come an fix a window that won't stay up
-- add one more exterior outlet
-- have a plumber take a look at a bathroom tap, maybe replace the spigot
-- add moss retardant to the north facing roof of my sunroom
-- MAYBE add shelving to the kitchen, or add one more 18" cabinet to the end of one run
-- paint or re-side some a couple of window frame (pieces of paint have flicked off the aluminum/vinyl around the windows.)
-- extend and run a spigot to the outside of my sun room (it WAS outside, but previous owners built the sunroom in a spot that enclosed the tap and now that spigot is in the corner of the darn soon room, so I'd need to extend that line (just a few feet) so the tap is outside again. (Now Ive only got ONE exterior spigot for the entire property and need to run hose more than 100 feet from the other side of the house)
Paint the exterior trim. If we had any left after that I'd focus on our dining room project.
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