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Enough of COVID...what are you doing to the house?

You already have the stainless steel so you might not like this idea but restaurant quality stainless shelves come in a lot of different sizes and have the rounded edges/drip edges already built in and no need to worry about bonded material etc. We bought three sets and they are extremely strong and look good. Probably not “several people sitting on them strong” but actually with the right number of L brackets they probably would. They aren’t really going to work with your inside corner with rounded edges so it’s likely a non starter though but there are flat edge ones that might.

This is where we got ours.

Max 16” deep with up to 96” length. Omega Stainless Steel Wall Shelves 18 gauge - Various Sizes
 
AllistonGT said:
I believe most homes in southern Ontario are brick because the abundance of clay here. Especially homes built in large numbers (subdivisions). Houses are built with what is in abundance around us.
Stone, wood, clay....

Personally If I were building a custom house, clay brick would be low on my list of materials.
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After the great fire the building code basically said unless you are hundreds of feet away from another structure you had to build solid masonry. Having the clay around made it an easy choice. Energy was cheap so an R3 wall was OK.
 
We've decided to put our house on the market, so it made sense to start cleaning out junk and packaging non essential items early. this will hopefully reduce our overall stress of the sales process. Today I started in the garage, filled 3 large garbage bags and still have more to go.
 
Jampy00 said:
We've decided to put our house on the market, so it made sense to start cleaning out junk and packaging non essential items early. this will hopefully reduce our overall stress of the sales process. Today I started in the garage, filled 3 large garbage bags and still have more to go.
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I always wonder about people's strategies. Sell first and then buy, knowing what you have in hand or buy and pray the numbers work out. Are conditional offers coming back into the market?
 
nobbie48 said:
I always wonder about people's strategies. Sell first and then buy, knowing what you have in hand or buy and pray the numbers work out. Are conditional offers coming back into the market?
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We're basically just trying to to stay proactive and positive in our approach. We expect to list late 2023 / early 2024.
We also have two properties to sell to put towards the purchase of our next one. We are selling first with an appropriate closing to allow us enough time to find something to buy. Luckily we have a good agent that we trust so we're leaning on their experience to aid in the process.
Our end game is to not have a mortgage at all.
 
I was amazed selling the last house , the purging and scraping of things I thought I needed , it was quite cathartic .
I’m also amazed how much the ‘move ‘ cost . Transfer taxes , paperwork, movers . It’s a big expense.


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crankcall said:
I’m also amazed how much the ‘move ‘ cost . Transfer taxes , paperwork, movers . It’s a big expense.


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That can be mitigated with appropriate planning. Since he owns his own business, if it moves or opens a new location that he is required to work at and he moves 40 km closer to facilitate that, lawyers, RE fees, LTT, movers, etc all come out of pre-tax money. Saves tens of thousands.
 
Last move (30years ago this year) was covered by my new job as part of the package. They paid lawyers fees, land transfer tax, bridge financing and a proffessional move. Like first class once you've been professionally moved it's hard to go back to packing your own boxes.
(funny thing was after all that expense to get me there they had a massive reorganization and I was done after only 3 years - a good thing as it turned out)
 
GreyGhost said:
That can be mitigated with appropriate planning. Since he owns his own business, if it moves or opens a new location that he is required to work at and he moves 40 km closer to facilitate that, lawyers, RE fees, LTT, movers, etc all come out of pre-tax money. Saves tens of thousands.
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Don't own the business, but it will be moving with me (depending on where I move) Company will cover move expenses of the business.
Both personal and business will be professionally moved in order to expedite the process. Our plan is to be fully aware of all the expenses that we must cover and be financially prepared for them come move time.

While we have a timeframe in mind we don't have a perceived deadline, we want the process to be as stress free as possible, though I am sure there will be a few surprises...
 
I hate moving like there’s no tomorrow. But we do it with friends, trucks, and pizza with beers.

But it does suck.

Hell packing and repacking this weekend makes me nauseous…

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Jampy00 said:
Don't own the business, but it will be moving with me (depending on where I move) Company will cover move expenses of the business.
Both personal and business will be professionally moved in order to expedite the process. Our plan is to be fully aware of all the expenses that we must cover and be financially prepared for them come move time.

While we have a timeframe in mind we don't have a perceived deadline, we want the process to be as stress free as possible, though I am sure there will be a few surprises...
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Make sure you read and understand the details required for move to be pre-tax money. It's not complicated and you can save a fortune. It would suck to move 38 km closer and be ineligible. There is no real timeline enshrined in law. Move and start "new" job in the same calendar year to avoid some issues.
 
GreyGhost said:
Make sure you read and understand the details required for move to be pre-tax money. It's not complicated and you can save a fortune. It would suck to move 38 km closer and be ineligible. There is no real timeline enshrined in law. Move and start "new" job in the same calendar year to avoid some issues.
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Good advice. I currently work 1.5kms from my work. Hard to get any closer.
 
Two moves back I asked friends how about loading some cube vans , one guy asked how much for actual movers, I had a 3k estimate, he offered to split it with me if he could just come for pizza and beer when it was over . That’s a friend .


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crankcall said:
Two moves back I asked friends how about loading some cube vans , one guy asked how much for actual movers, I had a 3k estimate, he offered to split it with me if he could just come for pizza and beer when it was over . That’s a friend .


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That’s a very good friend when they offer up $1500 instead of helping.

Maybe it’s our age but we make a full day event out of it. Typically done within 5-6hrs.
 
crankcall said:
Two moves back I asked friends how about loading some cube vans , one guy asked how much for actual movers, I had a 3k estimate, he offered to split it with me if he could just come for pizza and beer when it was over . That’s a friend .


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I thought my brother was a total idiot for booking his move on Grey Cup game day.

However he rented the biggest truck he could get, arm wrestled every friend with a car, rented all the dollies etc and had all the small stuff boxed.

Starting early, we loaded the truck and the small stuff went into the cars. One trip and it was done. Unpacked the TV, beer was in coolers, pizzas ordered and watched the game. The rest was anytime later
 
Not my house but I dug up almost an entire weeping bed on the weekend. What a $#!tty job. Both in smell and quality of previous work. Dug about 30 linear feet up and some spot holes to try to find extents. That was enough to confirm that the installed bed was in no way related to the approved drawings nor the drawings signed off by the inspector. They had also broken the fitting off the tank and just cored a new one below. This resulted in the weeping pipe running uphill to maintain tank capacity. No obvious signs of any effluent making it to the weeping bed as it all leaks out the end of the tank through the broken fitting. None of this was detected on the recent septic tank inspection.

Oh well, tried to save someone money but now they are looking at an entirely new bed and tank as this one is f'd. This project will cost ~50% of the price of the cottage when it was new 35 years ago (including land, building and septic but ignoring inflation). With inflation considered, septic would be ~25% of initial project cost.
 
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