Basement built thread. Getting city permit with my awesome drawing :-)

[Coleus]

Originally Posted by kien

The last few times I renovated (two basements and a total kitchen reno) it was cheaper for me to part it out. I think it all boils down to who you contact and what contractors you hire. Some of them will try to do the whole thing themselves which may be a good or a bad thing I dunno. Some of them will part out and if they part out they will either give you the cost of the sub-contracted labour or mark it up to make a few bucks out of it themselves.

I guess you won't really know unless you add up all the numbers.

got any good contact for me? So to break it down, here is what i need?


1) framing + dry wall guy

2) plumber

3) electrician

4) muding / taping

5) painting

6) flooring guy

Does this sounds right?

[Coralgurl]

The nice thing about hiring someone over doing it yourself is that it actually gets finished. My bf owns a home building company, knows how to do a basement and started ours....5 years ago....still not finished. Last thing he wants to do after 12-15 hour days. The hard part is he doesn't want to pay someone to finish it either....even though it seriously should only take a couple of weekends to wrap up. We've brought in electricians and plumbers, he did the drywalling himself and it looks like it...if you can do some yourself, great, get the family to help.