I Finished My Basement

2 Snow Shoveling Hacks – My Entire Driveway and Sidewalk in 4 mins 47 secs (video)

To finish your basement by yourself you need a lot of one thing. Time. I’ve got 2 hacks and a video below to help you create some more time. Saving time on everyday household chores is hobby of mine. I’m constantly analyzing stuff that I have to do and figuring out ways to do it faster, better or less frequently. (yup, hand raised, I’m kinda lame like that) Enter… snow shoveling. You get exercise which is good. You get outside in the cold which is good, usually. (did you know you lose more weight working out in colder weather?) Plus, you get the satisfaction [...]

Plumber of the Year Awards

Basement Plumbing Don’t make these hilarious plumbing mistakes. Or do, and then email me a picture. Big thumbs up to Bill S, for emailing me with the “Plumber of the Year Awards” Enjoy - Jason How does this even get past the planning phase? &%$@#

Finish a Basement with Recessed LED Lighting & Save $700

How do you finish a basement if you’re not sure what type of recessed lighting to buy? In this post I will tell you exactly what to buy to install recessed lights in your basement. Plus, how you can save $24.19 per light. For my basement, with 30 recessed light fixtures, that’s $725.00. Would you like 725 dollars? Of course you would! My eyes are tired and my fingers are sore. Why? Because I’ve been scouring the inter-webs researching LED lighting for finishing your basement. This is by far my most researched article ever. Good thing, because this stuff is

Finishing a Basement in 2013

Finishing a basement is large project and most of us aren’t as rich as the dowager of Downton Abbey. But if you want to finish your basement in 2013 it can be much less expensive than you might think. Yes, if you hire a contractor to finish your basement then you might be spending around $35,000 dollars for a 1,000 square foot basement with a bathroom. But, if you were as bold as the dowager, you would do what I did and finish your basement on your own. Doing the work yourself you could finish the same basement for about $12,000. That’s $23,000 in savings. That’s [...]

Air Filters and Home Depots Dirty Little Secret

Do you buy air filters for you house? What am I saying… of course you do. Just about everyone does. Are you over paying for air filters? You probably are. I did. For 7 years I overpaid. Then last year I found a place to buy them online that’s much cheaper. And this year when I went to do some research for this article I discovered that some companies within the air filter industry are trying to pull a fast one on YOU! Look – I’m not a conspiracy nut or something like that. I’m just a Dad who has a family to support [...]

Drop Ceiling vs Drywall for Finishing Your Basement

A drop ceiling costs about the same if not more than a drywall ceiling. I’ll tell you exactly why in just a minute. When I was finishing my basement I thought to myself ”Self… should we save money and drywall the basement ceiling on our own?” Then I imagined the difficulty of recruiting my lazy friends to help me drywall the ceiling. Then I thought “drop ceiling!” that’s the answer. Cheaper, easy to do by yourself. The only problem…it screams BASEMENT!“. I did some research and pondered it for about 3 weeks.

Finishing a Basement? Do you need a sub-panel? Why, and how much will it cost?

Finishing a basement? You might need to install a sub-panel. How much will it cost? Should you install it yourself? What should you buy? Do you really need one? Lucky for you, you have a friend who’s finished a basement before… me! In this post I’ll go over what I did and why I made the decisions I made. An electrical sub-panel is basically an extension of your primary electrical panel. Or as I like to call it, the “main” panel. If you’re adding new electrical circuits to your basement (lights and plugs) then you may not have enough slots on your main panel [...]

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