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MN | We remodeled with a match. Had an old farm house with doors everywhere, but no space to speak of, had been added on a couple of times and the plaster job was amazingly bad, but put up with a lot for the 11 years we lived there. We knew from day 1 we were going to do a match remodel job so scrimped and saved, saved and scrimped. The basement was rock and one corner kind of fell in so jacked up the corner of the house and replaced with some block. Carpets were scary, floors underneath scarier. The upstairs had wiring that defied logic (light switches were across the rooms) but was so cold you didn't want to sleep up there anyway. The siding was going bad and the windows were original 1900 models. All the time we just saved and scrimped by not putting anything into the 'rat shack' as we started to call it after awhile (mice were a big problem) - discovered after the match remodeling why - one entire side of the house was held up by 2 large rocks - the basement didn't match the exterior foundation but you couldn't tell that until the fire was done. The mice had an open invitation! We built a new house across the yard and paid for it up front. We don't have the biggest or fanciest house in the county, but love it! Warm in the winter and cool in the summer (not the other way around). Have geothermal heat (forced air) and floor heat in the basement (but only have one loop turned on for a bedroom. The geothermal runs cheap, but ours is kind of noisy but think that may be the way the ducts were designed. Overall would do the match remodel again! The most amazing thing was we donated the house to the fire department for practice and were pretty certain the smoke would be cleared in a couple hours - wrong - burned for over 12 hours hot and steady and would have burned longer except took the loader tractor and started to knock the walls in. The hole smoked for a week. It was an amazing sight. | |
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