YES!!!! It wrecked our walkway. Then the ivy grew in-between the window panes. We were clueless when we first purchased. We also have the Brazilian cherry floors. @mrphonexgrey would wouldn't even walk through the front door of this place.
Red flag, especially for people 30 and older, is sharp turns in hallways. As an EMT, it’s often hard if not impossible, to get a stretcher around corners. It’s not a huge issue in most cases, as we can transport a patient sitting up, so we can adjust the stretcher. But when we have spinal issues, possible broken necks, impaled objects, and other reasons why a patient may have to be transported on the side or back, we have to waste time figuring out how to move them out in the safest manner. And as a really depressing reason I hate sharp turns, I recently watched a deceased family member be carried out as if she were nothing more than a piece of plywood. The funeral attendants were respectful, but there was literally no other way to transport her out of the home.
OMG, this reminds me of a place I rented years ago. It had one of those narrow metal spiral stairways to a loft bedroom. A paramedic friend visited and told me how much he hated going there when it was rented to someone who had a seizure disorder. They had to get him down that stairway every time.
Working in a funeral home I can attest this is true. I have done many a removal in very tight spaces. Older people living in apartment buildings with no elevator and narrow stairwells. Apartment buildings with elevators that are too narrow for a gurney. Narrow halls and sharp corners are tricky. There's a reason why funeral homes have gurneys with a foot rest at 1 end. Sometimes you have to strap the person in and remove them upright. If you're a senior you really need to think about your last trip.
My partner and I have been contractors for over 30 years and TikTok DIY's are my bread and butter! My pro-tip to anyone buying either a new build or a 150-year-old home is PAY FOR A PRIVATE INSPECTION! It will cost anywhere from 400-1500 dollars, but it will be worth every penny because many real estate agents pay for inspectors to say what you want to hear. You can also go to your local city hall and request to see any building permits for your home, and that in itself can tell you a lot. I was looking at past building permits for a home we were working on and an owner got a permit for a garden shed but built a whole addition on to his home that flooded almost every year. Buyer beware!
The seller’s realtor should be obtaining a permit search from the municipality (fee involved) immediately upon listing the property, to find out about any non-compliant work that has been done. If you’re interested in a home but the realtor cannot show the results of a permit search, demand one. If they refuse, walk. And private home inspections are no guarantee- these tend to be surface-only. It won’t reveal what’s hidden behind walls i.e. plumbing pipes, electric lines, structural components etc.
We’re incredibly privileged that we were able to buy a small house in Massachusetts 2.5 years ago, we got our small cottage with an inspection. However, for the previous 8 properties we put offers on, all had between 30-50 offers, and we lost out to offers at least $100k over asking AND waived inspection EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. These were modest properties as well. We weren’t willing to waive inspection and we luckily held out, but it says something about the housing market that waived inspections were basically an expectation of buyers by sellers at the time.
I paid for a private inspection for an 80 year old home. I was told that the radiator was not on the most economic warmth distributing spot, but my certified inspector did miss our electrical meter had no earth wire. Should I ever buy an older house again I will specifically ask my technical inspector for that. Also for whether or not the sewer pipe actually goes in the right direction and whether my tap water doesn't come with lead. The latter thankfully didn't happen to me, but I got the warning letter from my municipality to please bang on my water pipes with a spoon to hear what it sounds like.
@@LBBEE-xl8qj I paid for home inspections on a couple of homes that were immaculate that I was interested in buying. One home had the garage partly on the other person's property, included termites in the house that was detected, the dishwasher wasn't working properly, and there was no ducting to the living room and one of the bedroom heat vents. The other home had a gas leak, the septic tank was shot, as well as a few other problems.
Smaller actors are used in car commercials to make interiors look roomy, tiny hands holding the burger to look bigger or hold the food product to illustrate a better value for your money…. Always watch how consumers are portrayed.
Toilets that are visible from other rooms, hallways, etc. When we built a house, I made sure toilets were positioned to not be seen until entering the bathroom!
One place my grandmother lived, if the doors were open, you could see straight into the master bathroom from the front door. Not necessarily the toilet, but still.
Thank goodness - I've FINALLY found someone who doesn't like to see the toilet first in a bathroom!! DD you have validated my decision to move the toilet in my ongoing reno. It's gonna cost but it'll make me happy to have the toilet around the corner 😘
It was a revelation when I moved to a country where it's standard for toilets to be in their own small room. When we started to look for a place to buy, this was a must for us! Don't ever want to go back to toilet next to the shower (or where I do my teeth 🤢)
Don’t be fooled by a heavy furniture item. There are manufacturers who literally pour concrete in the base of a dresser because they know you look for heavy and pay more for heavy. Look at details. Real hardwood not veneer tops, and dovetail wood, not glue holding drawers together. Look at hardware .
Thank you! My husband was a building inspector for 16 years, and is now a builder. I have learned so much about codes. People think they can just do whatever they want to their home, yes, but to a point. He has told me, if you go to sell the house, and your realtor is a savy and experienced one, they should know if there were any permits taken out. If there haven't been, they have had to rip everything down to the studs, (like it was when they bought the house), if that's the case. Yeah, it can become a nightmare! Thanks for sharing
if you go to look at a house to purchase and it has a new addition/remodel/flip. go down to the local building department and ask to see the permits that were pulled for that. (spoiler, lots of times there won't be any permits pulled). No paperwork, no addition, you can just guarantee it wasn't done correctly. (also the city REALLY likes to know things like this........). And if there are permits, signed off, etc, well you have a good chance of it being done correctly.
Dear Design Daddy, Please keep adding videos about red flags for home buyers. I've found the flags you mentioned to be very useful and a great help in saving significant amounts of money. Huge fan,
These are great pieces of advice, and for renters too. I would add these ones: - Always bring a hygrometer with you when visiting a property, to check the humidity level. Especially for those of you in the UK. If it's above 60%, just run. - Check the water pressure in the taps, and how long it takes for the water to get hot. Bonus: bring a diy water testing kit to test for lead and other heavy metals in the water supply. Check the walls underneath the sinks for signs of water damage. - Feel the edges of window frames for draft - If the walls are freshly painted, rub the palm of your hand against one and smell your palm immediately after. Sometimes if the paint they used was too old or tainted, your palm will smell like old milk. Or if a smoker lived there for a long time, you'll smell it on your palm too. Water damage that hasn't been dealt with properly will leave a slight smell as well. You can always repaint with shellac as a base coat, but it's a pain and it can get expensive.
Hey Bud, Like your content (keep the giggles in -they're a hoot). In condo bldgs -how far are you from the elevator or garbage chutes? The noise is irritating. Is your entry door right across from the neighbors -or right next to theirs (or a bullpen of 4 doors)? NOISE. Your comfort with design issues are enjoyable....and your laugh is infectious.
Regarding electrical. I have a 50 year-old condo in a small complex. The water heater was short and was squeezed into the bathroom between a wall and a small vanity. It needed to be replaced, and I looked into a tankless water heater. The electrician told me I didn't have enough amps coming into the unit for a tankless water heater.
Oh. My. God! Less than a minute in, and I 💯% agree. Cherry wood is SUCH a pain to work with. We bought a house with cherry red hardwood, and let me tell you, it took numerous stick-on paint samples before we were able to find the right shade of light blue for this space. Now that everything is done, I actually love the floors and think they work great with our color palette and furniture. However, that doesn't change the fact that getting them to work with our much more muted, cooler tone aesthetic was a huge challenge, and I was not certain I COULD make it work pretty much up until everything was finished.
The red orange toned floors go great with cooler tones! So that blue you used was a good choice. You can always use area rugs to minimize the impact of any color flooring. I also have red orange flooring. I have no issue with that color. It’s wood. That’s good enough for me. When I refinish wood furniture I rarely have to stain it. The top coat brings out a beautiful natural reddish color which I love. I also love the feel of a satin top coat on wood.
Sunken living room, for insurance reasons. Often considered a basement and some people don’t realize they aren’t covered until it floods via pool leak, rain, plumbing etc.
I bought my home about 8 years ago.. the house is only about 15 years old. Luckily it's just me but my master bedroom is right off the great room with no entry hall, so if I have company I have to close the door so they aren't looking directly in my bedroom. The other thing is when you come in the front door if you go straight you enter in to the great room, to the left is a hall that goes to the other 2 bedrooms. Directly at the end of the hall is the hall bath. The toilet is the only thing you see going down the hall. I keep that door closed all the time. I bought it because of the killer mountain views but those are 2 things that totally annoy me in my house. It's like who designs these??? I have a degree in Architecture and design so I am continually aware of things like this. I was willing to overlook those 2 things for the view though.
Your advice is right on target!! What about a sink in a kitchen island? Usually a sink has a backsplash when against a wall or in front of a window. Water in an island sink splashes/drips/seeps all over the island? It drives me crazy!
I absolutely hate the sink in a kitchen island. As you say water splashes everywhere and who wants to sit at an island and get splashed or look at dirty dishes. Every new build now has the sink in the island, I hate it. I like the sink on an exterior wall, with a window above it.
It's for busy chefs so they can easily re-rinse anything including veggies or their hands. There should be two other sinks, one for major meat and fish preparation and another for washing dishes, utensils, pots and pans.
I love that you mentioned building things to code. So many people are unaware or just don't care. On that, I have a question. Will spray foam insulation hurt a shingle roof?? We're building at the moment, and this question has arisen. I trust your expertise.
Unfortunately, this question isn't as straight forward as it sounds. The short answer is that no, you can't just spray foam the roof in an existing attic space. The long answer is that you can, but you have to completely restructure the attic space and roof to do it. Please consult a qualified General Contractor that specializes in roofing, insulation and spray foam. Getting the correct answer will require a qualified contractor to physically inspect your space, as no two situations will be identical. Hope this helps! :)
Just a silly man. Not very resourceful, nor able to adapt. Seeing a red flag Everywhere. To me he IS a red flag himself. Watched this one episode, saw his nonsense and blocked the channel. Come on... this is just one great big waste of time.
Regarding building code and permits specifically: Every municipality, state, province, city, etc., can be different. The best guideline is that if you are CHANGING (not just adding) Electrical, Plumbing, HVAC, Structure or Foundation, you should contact your municipality prior to drafting plans to inquire about permits and engineering requirements. Many places require plans to be drawn up to specific guidelines before permits will be issued to allow the work. If a contractor tells you that you do not need a permit, check with your municipality anyway, and if your contractor was incorrect, terminate the contract immediately. Owning a home with literally no hallways, where you just kind of blob your way from one space to another, I envy those really long hallways. No joke, I considered making one room smaller, just so I could incorporate an entirely unnecessary hallway, for the sake of having a hallway. Ultimately decided against it, but I still want a hallway, dangit!!
@@pxn748 Same with where I live in the mountains of North Alabama. Unincorporated areas in the US are fun! However, still always good to check when undergoing renovations, and while not enforced, federal building code should be applied as a minimum.
Yes, the Building Codes are written to provided a reasonable level of safety, as so are a good guideline even if they are not required. You want a structure that is electrically safe, has plumbing that works, that is structurally sound, and weather tight. Pay special attention to decks and stairways.
Find you a home inspector that takes the time to fill your tubs and sinks and run a moisture detector around after letting them sit for a few minutes. You'd be shocked what you can find.
The add-on powder room can also be in a place where using it is awkward. I have seen poor design of floorplans where the powder room was actually a part of the original plan but it opens directly into a living, dining room or kitchen. You literally enter and exit to where you are the feature of that space. 😂
When we were looking for our first house, we had a four-year old and I was pregnant. We had a tiny budget and everything we could afford was dilapidated. Then we found a little house being flipped. New carpet, clean, freshly painted. We jumped at it. In the six years we lived there, the kitchen floor sank because of water issues in the crawl space, the walls molded, we both got shocked from homeowner-electrical that bi-passed the fuse box. It was a nightmare.
With those tiny powder rooms 'plopped' into closets, probably done without a permit. Code requires a certain number of inches on either side of a water closet, and a minimum clear space in front of both water closets and sinks. You already mentioned the plumbing codes, but the lack of proper venting can make drains almost useless.
Usually load bearing walls are perpendicular to the way the joists run and not parallel. Of course there are exceptions but I think you said it backwards in the vid
Yes on the electrical supply . . . in 1987 I had my electrical upgraded to a 100 amp panel, and at the time it was considered over kill. . . now? I'd have to go look, but I don't think there are any spare circuits available . . .
I would add water pressure. I’ve lived in places where there was low pressure which makes everything take so much longer, showering, washing dishes, etc. I’ve, also, lived where the pressure was extremely high and it would literally hurt to shower. You couldn’t face the shower head at all. It did only take about 5 minutes to get clean. Unfortunately, both were rentals so there was only so much I could do. It’s now on my must check list.
We spent $70k to add a large patio, with a A frame roof, about 50sq feet of interior space, remove some interior walls, install LDLs and add a second electrical box to our home. Thank you for telling the folks that it’s important to get plans/work professionally done. You have to submit your plans to your city/township board and know that code enforcement is checking so don’t try to be cheap and do it on the sly….the fines or dismantling $1000’s of work is worse. PS make sure EVERYONE who works on your project is licensed, bonded and has a work permit from your city/township.
When I was looking for a small home in my area….lots of cottages here….found that many of the “bedrooms” staged with twin beds were actually liquor boxes with quilts over them. Rooms not large enough for twin size mattresses is a problem.
Hi! As child I lived in 1800s house with one outlet in each room, I lived in county we don’t have building permits, we got electric, sewage, thanks for all your tips!
I hate not having overhead lights in the bedrooms of my apartment, because it means I can't have ceiling fans either. Also, trying to figure out which outlet the light switch works and having to design your space around that.
an easy thing to check to see how janky the work is: check doorways where flooring materials change. If they aren't taking the time to properly fit the floor, which is a pretty simple thing to do, they're doing shoddy work elsewhere, too. Plus, having those little voids where dust and junk collect at the doorframes is just irritating.
Most people don't consider accessibility factors when they buy a home, even if it isn't an issue at the time. We bought a home with 3 flights of stairs and only a powder room on the main level. All good until life happened. Having surgery and don't want to contend with stairs? Stay on the main level but no bath facilities there. Want to move your elderly mother into the house? She can't navigate stairs. Have a friend with mobility issues? She can't easily get into the home because there are no railings at the entryways. Low toilets, no grab bars, narrow doorways, tall cabinets - all become issues down the road.
A red flag for my husband & I now is when we see rocks or pebbles in landscaping close to the home. Our first home was in a neighborhood that had terrible drainage. We tried adding bushes & mulch under the front windows, but during a bad storm a year later we literally had water enter our front doors twice! We spoke with a professional landscaper & he explained mulch compacts like concrete during rain rather than letting water drain through. We quickly replaced all of our mulch with river pebbles afterwards & never had an issue again. When looking for our current home though, we scratched off any homes with rocks out front though as it would be too hard to know what drainage was like in that area.
We interviewed our real estate agents. Hired one that had experience as a building contractor. Told him flat out we weren't looking for pretty, we were looking for functional and well built. HVAC and foundation, not granite countertops. He was awesome, and pointed out many many serious construction flaws. We hired our own building inspector as a condition of sale. Another great decision for just a few 100 bucks. It's a fraction of the cost of the most expensive item you will ever buy in your life. And yes one of the items on our list, after many years of renting old properties, was counting the electrical outlets and noting their placement in every room. Our real estate agent remarked that it was the first time he'd ever seen anybody do that but couldn't fault us for doing so.
I love your videos... but I do wish you could also show designs or blueprints of what should be done at the same time as what should not be done. It would help visualization more if there is a comparison.
You really nailed all of the red flags! I live in a condo that has a super layout. The three bedrooms are located in the back, which was on my list for a must-have. The only thing that bothers me is the hallway. The coat closet is on the left side, a furnace room, and the laundry. The right side has a linen closet. What bothers me is that the doors are at different heights. There's regular doors for the coat and linen closets, then a sliding door on the furnace room and a bi-fold door on my laundry room. What would you recommend in order to fix my issue? Or is this something I'm being too picky about? ❤😊❤
Upon home inspection, the city may require de-construction of any unpermitted additions or "upgrades." Nightmare, but less of a problem than if wiring or plumbing goes wrong after purchase.
Sorry but red floors are not a reg flag. They are just challenging to work with. saying they are a red flag means they are inherently bad or badly installed.
"Powder room" (or as we call them in Europe, toilets) are SUPER common in Belgium and France (and probably in a lot of european countries) so I find it funny to see you hate that :p They are usualy made when the house has only one bathroom with a toilet inside so we add another single tiny toilet/ "powder room" for either the guests (no one want the guest to see your only bathroom used by the whole family) or simply so 2 peoples can go at the same time. And yes they are tiny because you're not supposed to spend a lot of time there (and we don't always have a lot of available space). In newer french buildings they have regulations for the toilets so a wheelchair can fit it them. They have to build huge bathrooms and separate toilets with a lot of empty space for accomodation. So now our toilets also become our laundry rooms (and it's a lot harder to make it pretty with a big laundry machine and a toilet in front of the door.)
Ce n'est pas qu'il ne les aime pas. C'est qu'il n'aime pas lorsque les propriétaires ajoutent une (ce qu'au Québec on appelle une salle d'eau ou une demi-salle de bain) là ou il y avait auparavant un garde-robe ou une autre pièce beaucoup trop petite pour qu'elle soit vraiment utilisable. En Amérique du Nord, c'est commun d'avoir une salle de bain complète *et* une salle d'eau, du moins dans les maisons. Et c'est de plus en plus commun d'avoir la buanderie séparée de la salle de bain, idéalement sur le même étage que les chambres. Je dis ça, parce qu'avant (années 50-70s), la buanderie était souvent placée au sous-sol, alors que les chambres étaient à l'étage. Les plus chanceux étaient ceux qui avaient une petite chute à linge.
@@nathalie_desrosiers Oui je m'en doute mais même le fait de se dire "oh un cagibi, je vais le transformer en toilette" c'est vraiment super courant :p Toutes les photos qu'il a montré, ce serait même pas considéré comme "trop petit" chez nous.
@@novart9230 C'est pas que c'est trop petit, mais que dans ces toilettes bricolées à l'arrache, la plomberie est souvent faite n'importe comment et qu'il n'y a pas de système de ventilation.
I Love old houses 1890’s and up. I grew up in an old Victorian style farmhouse., even found the original well one summer. Get a good home inspector. It’s worth the time and money. They will report everything . Review it thoroughly and ask questions. Ask them about red flags.
I absolutely love old homes as well. You cannot duplicate the charm the character and workmanship compared to modern builds. Having said that no matter the age, a private home inspection is worth every penny to avoid the possibility of larger issues upon purchase.
You can look up the address of the home on the city website and see what permits have been pulled. Then you know it's up to code for that project, the permit will tell you the scope of work done, there should also be separate permits for plumbers/pipefitting and electricians.
Long hallways in older homes, especially for those built before air conditioning was widely available, serve the purpose of a breeze way to help cool the home.
I rent a 1980s townhome and the main living area doesn't have ceiling lighting. There is a switch at the entry wired to a half hot outlet. It's super annoying.
The switch lighting thing is no joke. I live in the United States and bought a home that had this in 2 of the 4 upstairs bedrooms and the room that the previous owners were using as a dining room. It's horrible! Sure, it powers lamps and all, but if you have a phone or something in charging? That gets shut off too. There were other things and our financial situation that made the home worth it overall, but dawd dayum was the lack of independent overhead lighting annoying.
Living in Italy, 70 square meters with 9+sm of hallway and two outlets in kitchen and bedrooms, three outlets in the livingroom, bathroom only one outlet. 🙄
Extensions, decks, patios, etc. Most often look like an odd appendage to the house, usually the wrong proportions, style, or whatever. They rarely look right. Often pathetic at best, and that is just the aesthetics of it.
When it comes to Guatemala, electrical outlets are a big problem. In my apartment, my living room/bedroom space has only ONE electrical outlet! Same with the kitchen. Since the apartment only costs me $115/month (which includes, electricity, trash service, water and the gardener's salary), I can't complain too much.
Fantastic tips as we are planning to right size next year. I toured a beautiful condo this summer. The model was furnished but guest room was so small. I asked agent if it was a double bed and she said no a queen. I said let’s measure it. She didn’t have a tape measure so I whipped mine out and it was indeed a double. I told her it was a bit like false advertising.
As someone who has to come in and fix this crap - McMansions with sawdust and epoxy outdoor railings and siding. after a few years, the paint doesn't seal them and they just crumble.
regarding old looking toilets in old homes. Be thankful you have one. They flush 5 gallons and DON"T require multiple flushes to rid the bowl. Also they have straight sided pedestals, not those horrendous ones where the trap, siphon and internal plumbing make a design statement. Remember you have to clean these things. With an old toilet its a quick swipe. With a modern one, you are on hands N knees cleaning the zillions of nooks and crannies. You do not want to spend time communing with your toilet bowl, with your face in the porcelain. Plus an old fixture adds charm and class to an old house.
I didn't pay that much attention to the video, but I bet he'd hate houses in New Orleans. Many of them are shotgun style houses where the kitchen or bedroom are in the back of the home.
I encountered so many DIY flips during my recent househunting saga. Most of them had screaming red flags, like LVP installed over hardwood on a very unsteady floor. Lots of hastily finished basements, too. Like, what are y'all hiding? That ugly gray LVP isn't distracting me from the fact that the doors slam themselves and the floor is concave.
I’ve got a question: if you have one of these red flags (eg: toilet Seen when first walked in) and you couldn’t remove/relocate the flaw, how would you go about fixing it/working around it?
Outlets are the bane of my existence in my house. I have a lot of them, but they’re in weird places where you will see all the cords if you plug anything into there. And the outlet that the light switches go to is right next to the door….which is just so pointless to me.
I thought my house was smaller than it was because it wasn’t staged (owner still lived there the until sale) and the furniture was way too big for the space
Beware of Box Elders anywhere on the property…nightmare…their branch width matches their root spread, they don’t typically grow straight, spread like wildfire, almost impossible to kill…provide great shade and give the illusion of a lovely backyard with trees…NO!!! Smaller nightmares, anything that spreads: grape vines, ivy, vinca,…
My condo doesn't have ceiling lights outside of the kitchen, but has outlets and like 3 sconces haha. There's no electrical in the ceilings and I've wondered whether the developers were able to make the building shorter and save money that way.
True on the staged furniture! But why do people need or buy a huge sectional for 2-3 people? Is a couch the new recliner? How a put a comfy reading chair?
You’re wrong about the trusses, too. Load bearing walls in a home with trusses run perpendicular to the trusses. Just as the trusses run perpendicular to the exterior walls that support them.
Hmmmm. I live in a tiny 1940s cottage in Hawaii with one full bathroom. I need to convert a closet to a VERY basic half bath (with a small sink & toilet) for visiting guests. I am hiring licensed contractors (to build to code), getting estimates soon. Fingers crossed!
What are you talking about? Upgrading the service to a home does not require upgrading the switches and outlets in the home. Upgrading the amperage allows you to add more circuits. It does not change the existing circuits. A new panel is installed with space for more breakers. That panel can handle more amps. The existing circuits are wired into it, and switches and outlets remain the same.
I hate walking in a kitchen and seeing a stove. I hate walking in a bedroom and seeing a bed. if the first thing I see when I walk in a room is the thing that room is specifically for I get triggered
@anonz975 no he's not. who has time to be peeved you can see a tiolet in the bathroom, that's just weird. We all go #2 hiding the toilet won't make it smell better.
@@janesweepingbush2289 When the toilet is opposite of the door it is visible from other rooms whenever the door is open. No one wants to see the toilet from the hall, bedroom, family room etc... or have the door accidentally opened when you are on the throne and a roomful of people sees you there.
Don’t houses have to be officially surveyed during the buying process like in the UK? Surely the surveyor would identify where the house is not up to code?
OMG, we are selling our house and you just described every room in it as a RED Flag....as always you have given great advice, I just hope non of our potential buys watch your channel :)
A red flag may be trees/bushes too close to the home so that there are roots disturbing the foundations and foliage/branches covering windows.
Another added tip!
The next house I buy will NOT have trees or bushes with deep roots next to the house. PERIOD.
THIS!!! So expensive when the roots interfere with the pipes
YES!!!! It wrecked our walkway. Then the ivy grew in-between the window panes. We were clueless when we first purchased. We also have the Brazilian cherry floors. @mrphonexgrey would wouldn't even walk through the front door of this place.
The house I grew up in, we had to remove a tree whose roots were messing with our plumbing. Plus the danger of it falling on the house.
Red flag, especially for people 30 and older, is sharp turns in hallways.
As an EMT, it’s often hard if not impossible, to get a stretcher around corners. It’s not a huge issue in most cases, as we can transport a patient sitting up, so we can adjust the stretcher.
But when we have spinal issues, possible broken necks, impaled objects, and other reasons why a patient may have to be transported on the side or back, we have to waste time figuring out how to move them out in the safest manner.
And as a really depressing reason I hate sharp turns, I recently watched a deceased family member be carried out as if she were nothing more than a piece of plywood. The funeral attendants were respectful, but there was literally no other way to transport her out of the home.
OMG, this reminds me of a place I rented years ago. It had one of those narrow metal spiral stairways to a loft bedroom. A paramedic friend visited and told me how much he hated going there when it was rented to someone who had a seizure disorder. They had to get him down that stairway every time.
Working in a funeral home I can attest this is true. I have done many a removal in very tight spaces. Older people living in apartment buildings with no elevator and narrow stairwells. Apartment buildings with elevators that are too narrow for a gurney. Narrow halls and sharp corners are tricky. There's a reason why funeral homes have gurneys with a foot rest at 1 end. Sometimes you have to strap the person in and remove them upright. If you're a senior you really need to think about your last trip.
My partner and I have been contractors for over 30 years and TikTok DIY's are my bread and butter! My pro-tip to anyone buying either a new build or a 150-year-old home is PAY FOR A PRIVATE INSPECTION! It will cost anywhere from 400-1500 dollars, but it will be worth every penny because many real estate agents pay for inspectors to say what you want to hear. You can also go to your local city hall and request to see any building permits for your home, and that in itself can tell you a lot. I was looking at past building permits for a home we were working on and an owner got a permit for a garden shed but built a whole addition on to his home that flooded almost every year. Buyer beware!
The seller’s realtor should be obtaining a permit search from the municipality (fee involved) immediately upon listing the property, to find out about any non-compliant work that has been done. If you’re interested in a home but the realtor cannot show the results of a permit search, demand one. If they refuse, walk. And private home inspections are no guarantee- these tend to be surface-only. It won’t reveal what’s hidden behind walls i.e. plumbing pipes, electric lines, structural components etc.
We’re incredibly privileged that we were able to buy a small house in Massachusetts 2.5 years ago, we got our small cottage with an inspection. However, for the previous 8 properties we put offers on, all had between 30-50 offers, and we lost out to offers at least $100k over asking AND waived inspection EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. These were modest properties as well. We weren’t willing to waive inspection and we luckily held out, but it says something about the housing market that waived inspections were basically an expectation of buyers by sellers at the time.
I paid for a private inspection for an 80 year old home. I was told that the radiator was not on the most economic warmth distributing spot, but my certified inspector did miss our electrical meter had no earth wire. Should I ever buy an older house again I will specifically ask my technical inspector for that.
Also for whether or not the sewer pipe actually goes in the right direction and whether my tap water doesn't come with lead.
The latter thankfully didn't happen to me, but I got the warning letter from my municipality to please bang on my water pipes with a spoon to hear what it sounds like.
@@LBBEE-xl8qj I paid for home inspections on a couple of homes that were immaculate that I was interested in buying. One home had the garage partly on the other person's property, included termites in the house that was detected, the dishwasher wasn't working properly, and there was no ducting to the living room and one of the bedroom heat vents. The other home had a gas leak, the septic tank was shot, as well as a few other problems.
Smaller actors are used in car commercials to make interiors look roomy, tiny hands holding the burger to look bigger or hold the food product to illustrate a better value for your money…. Always watch how consumers are portrayed.
Porn too!
Toilets that are visible from other rooms, hallways, etc. When we built a house, I made sure toilets were positioned to not be seen until entering the bathroom!
One place my grandmother lived, if the doors were open, you could see straight into the master bathroom from the front door. Not necessarily the toilet, but still.
Thats pretty funny!
Just close the door, why would you even keep the door of the bathroom open? its pretty absurd to try and hide a toilet in a bathroom lol.
Agree, we have our bathroom near the stairs! We always make sure the door is shut! lol😅
@@edd943 It's a common indicator that when the door is open, it's vacant. Closed, occupied. Some households prefer this arrangement.
Thank goodness - I've FINALLY found someone who doesn't like to see the toilet first in a bathroom!! DD you have validated my decision to move the toilet in my ongoing reno. It's gonna cost but it'll make me happy to have the toilet around the corner 😘
It was a revelation when I moved to a country where it's standard for toilets to be in their own small room. When we started to look for a place to buy, this was a must for us! Don't ever want to go back to toilet next to the shower (or where I do my teeth 🤢)
Don’t be fooled by a heavy furniture item. There are manufacturers who literally pour concrete in the base of a dresser because they know you look for heavy and pay more for heavy. Look at details. Real hardwood not veneer tops, and dovetail wood, not glue holding drawers together. Look at hardware .
Thank you! My husband was a building inspector for 16 years, and is now a builder. I have learned so much about codes. People think they can just do whatever they want to their home, yes, but to a point. He has told me, if you go to sell the house, and your realtor is a savy and experienced one, they should know if there were any permits taken out. If there haven't been, they have had to rip everything down to the studs, (like it was when they bought the house), if that's the case. Yeah, it can become a nightmare! Thanks for sharing
One of your best videos ever.
Awe thank you so much for watching 🤍
if you go to look at a house to purchase and it has a new addition/remodel/flip. go down to the local building department and ask to see the permits that were pulled for that. (spoiler, lots of times there won't be any permits pulled). No paperwork, no addition, you can just guarantee it wasn't done correctly. (also the city REALLY likes to know things like this........). And if there are permits, signed off, etc, well you have a good chance of it being done correctly.
Dear Design Daddy,
Please keep adding videos about red flags for home buyers. I've found the flags you mentioned to be very useful and a great help in saving significant amounts of money.
Huge fan,
These are great pieces of advice, and for renters too.
I would add these ones:
- Always bring a hygrometer with you when visiting a property, to check the humidity level. Especially for those of you in the UK. If it's above 60%, just run.
- Check the water pressure in the taps, and how long it takes for the water to get hot. Bonus: bring a diy water testing kit to test for lead and other heavy metals in the water supply. Check the walls underneath the sinks for signs of water damage.
- Feel the edges of window frames for draft
- If the walls are freshly painted, rub the palm of your hand against one and smell your palm immediately after. Sometimes if the paint they used was too old or tainted, your palm will smell like old milk. Or if a smoker lived there for a long time, you'll smell it on your palm too. Water damage that hasn't been dealt with properly will leave a slight smell as well. You can always repaint with shellac as a base coat, but it's a pain and it can get expensive.
Hey Bud, Like your content (keep the giggles in -they're a hoot). In condo bldgs -how far are you from the elevator or garbage chutes? The noise is irritating. Is your entry door right across from the neighbors -or right next to theirs (or a bullpen of 4 doors)? NOISE. Your comfort with design issues are enjoyable....and your laugh is infectious.
As well as a laundry room next to your apartment suite.
Regarding electrical. I have a 50 year-old condo in a small complex. The water heater was short and was squeezed into the bathroom between a wall and a small vanity. It needed to be replaced, and I looked into a tankless water heater. The electrician told me I didn't have enough amps coming into the unit for a tankless water heater.
Oh. My. God! Less than a minute in, and I 💯% agree. Cherry wood is SUCH a pain to work with. We bought a house with cherry red hardwood, and let me tell you, it took numerous stick-on paint samples before we were able to find the right shade of light blue for this space. Now that everything is done, I actually love the floors and think they work great with our color palette and furniture. However, that doesn't change the fact that getting them to work with our much more muted, cooler tone aesthetic was a huge challenge, and I was not certain I COULD make it work pretty much up until everything was finished.
The red orange toned floors go great with cooler tones! So that blue you used was a good choice. You can always use area rugs to minimize the impact of any color flooring. I also have red orange flooring. I have no issue with that color. It’s wood. That’s good enough for me. When I refinish wood furniture I rarely have to stain it. The top coat brings out a beautiful natural reddish color which I love. I also love the feel of a satin top coat on wood.
Those two wood tones get blended and tamed better always, when matched with greens, blues or neutrals with no yellow, orange or red in the undertone.
Sunken living room, for insurance reasons. Often considered a basement and some people don’t realize they aren’t covered until it floods via pool leak, rain, plumbing etc.
I bought my home about 8 years ago.. the house is only about 15 years old. Luckily it's just me but my master bedroom is right off the great room with no entry hall, so if I have company I have to close the door so they aren't looking directly in my bedroom. The other thing is when you come in the front door if you go straight you enter in to the great room, to the left is a hall that goes to the other 2 bedrooms. Directly at the end of the hall is the hall bath. The toilet is the only thing you see going down the hall. I keep that door closed all the time. I bought it because of the killer mountain views but those are 2 things that totally annoy me in my house. It's like who designs these??? I have a degree in Architecture and design so I am continually aware of things like this. I was willing to overlook those 2 things for the view though.
But wouldn’t you keep the toilet door closed anyway? It’s bad Feng Shui to leave it open.
I always have my bedroom doors closed, even if I am alone in the house. I think it is more private and elegant.
Your advice is right on target!! What about a sink in a kitchen island? Usually a sink has a backsplash when against a wall or in front of a window. Water in an island sink splashes/drips/seeps all over the island? It drives me crazy!
Yesssss!
@@elisabethdarcy1985 Happy to hear someone else agrees! Thanks!
I absolutely hate the sink in a kitchen island. As you say water splashes everywhere and who wants to sit at an island and get splashed or look at dirty dishes. Every new build now has the sink in the island, I hate it. I like the sink on an exterior wall, with a window above it.
@@jayjones9219 I agree, a sink on an exterior wall, below a window, is ideal. A view while working!
It's for busy chefs so they can easily re-rinse anything including veggies or their hands. There should be two other sinks, one for major meat and fish preparation and another for washing dishes, utensils, pots and pans.
I love that you mentioned building things to code. So many people are unaware or just don't care. On that, I have a question. Will spray foam insulation hurt a shingle roof?? We're building at the moment, and this question has arisen. I trust your expertise.
Unfortunately, this question isn't as straight forward as it sounds. The short answer is that no, you can't just spray foam the roof in an existing attic space. The long answer is that you can, but you have to completely restructure the attic space and roof to do it. Please consult a qualified General Contractor that specializes in roofing, insulation and spray foam. Getting the correct answer will require a qualified contractor to physically inspect your space, as no two situations will be identical. Hope this helps! :)
I'm feeling really pleased with myself right now. Our new home ticks every single box (or is it unticks every box?). I feel all validated.
Older homes took a beating in this episode. I love mine.
Just a silly man. Not very resourceful, nor able to adapt. Seeing a red flag Everywhere. To me he IS a red flag himself. Watched this one episode, saw his nonsense and blocked the channel. Come on... this is just one great big waste of time.
Regarding building code and permits specifically: Every municipality, state, province, city, etc., can be different. The best guideline is that if you are CHANGING (not just adding) Electrical, Plumbing, HVAC, Structure or Foundation, you should contact your municipality prior to drafting plans to inquire about permits and engineering requirements. Many places require plans to be drawn up to specific guidelines before permits will be issued to allow the work. If a contractor tells you that you do not need a permit, check with your municipality anyway, and if your contractor was incorrect, terminate the contract immediately.
Owning a home with literally no hallways, where you just kind of blob your way from one space to another, I envy those really long hallways. No joke, I considered making one room smaller, just so I could incorporate an entirely unnecessary hallway, for the sake of having a hallway. Ultimately decided against it, but I still want a hallway, dangit!!
Not every county has code, there are some in North Georgia that still don't have codes or zoning.
@@pxn748 Same with where I live in the mountains of North Alabama. Unincorporated areas in the US are fun!
However, still always good to check when undergoing renovations, and while not enforced, federal building code should be applied as a minimum.
Yes, the Building Codes are written to provided a reasonable level of safety, as so are a good guideline even if they are not required. You want a structure that is electrically safe, has plumbing that works, that is structurally sound, and weather tight. Pay special attention to decks and stairways.
Find you a home inspector that takes the time to fill your tubs and sinks and run a moisture detector around after letting them sit for a few minutes. You'd be shocked what you can find.
Great advice
also uses a thermal imaging system to check for proper insulation
Yes to the hallway!!! It is my most hated thing in my new build. It's door, tunnel hallway then open concept. Idk what to do about the hallway now.
You can use Red Out by Bona on Cherry and Red Oak to cut down on the redness if you're going to refinish it.
The add-on powder room can also be in a place where using it is awkward. I have seen poor design of floorplans where the powder room was actually a part of the original plan but it opens directly into a living, dining room or kitchen. You literally enter and exit to where you are the feature of that space. 😂
When we were looking for our first house, we had a four-year old and I was pregnant. We had a tiny budget and everything we could afford was dilapidated. Then we found a little house being flipped. New carpet, clean, freshly painted. We jumped at it. In the six years we lived there, the kitchen floor sank because of water issues in the crawl space, the walls molded, we both got shocked from homeowner-electrical that bi-passed the fuse box. It was a nightmare.
With those tiny powder rooms 'plopped' into closets, probably done without a permit. Code requires a certain number of inches on either side of a water closet, and a minimum clear space in front of both water closets and sinks. You already mentioned the plumbing codes, but the lack of proper venting can make drains almost useless.
These are such excellent points to consider before buying or even renting houses.
Usually load bearing walls are perpendicular to the way the joists run and not parallel. Of course there are exceptions but I think you said it backwards in the vid
Yes on the electrical supply . . . in 1987 I had my electrical upgraded to a 100 amp panel, and at the time it was considered over kill. . . now? I'd have to go look, but I don't think there are any spare circuits available . . .
I would add water pressure. I’ve lived in places where there was low pressure which makes everything take so much longer, showering, washing dishes, etc. I’ve, also, lived where the pressure was extremely high and it would literally hurt to shower. You couldn’t face the shower head at all. It did only take about 5 minutes to get clean. Unfortunately, both were rentals so there was only so much I could do. It’s now on my must check list.
We spent $70k to add a large patio, with a A frame roof, about 50sq feet of interior space, remove some interior walls, install LDLs and add a second electrical box to our home. Thank you for telling the folks that it’s important to get plans/work professionally done. You have to submit your plans to your city/township board and know that code enforcement is checking so don’t try to be cheap and do it on the sly….the fines or dismantling $1000’s of work is worse. PS make sure EVERYONE who works on your project is licensed, bonded and has a work permit from your city/township.
I wish I could bring along a designer when house shopping 😊
When I was looking for a small home in my area….lots of cottages here….found that many of the “bedrooms” staged with twin beds were actually liquor boxes with quilts over them. Rooms not large enough for twin size mattresses is a problem.
Hi! As child I lived in 1800s house with one outlet in each room, I lived in county we don’t have building permits, we got electric, sewage, thanks for all your tips!
I hate not having overhead lights in the bedrooms of my apartment, because it means I can't have ceiling fans either. Also, trying to figure out which outlet the light switch works and having to design your space around that.
This was one of my Favorite Videos of Yours !!
an easy thing to check to see how janky the work is: check doorways where flooring materials change. If they aren't taking the time to properly fit the floor, which is a pretty simple thing to do, they're doing shoddy work elsewhere, too. Plus, having those little voids where dust and junk collect at the doorframes is just irritating.
Most people don't consider accessibility factors when they buy a home, even if it isn't an issue at the time. We bought a home with 3 flights of stairs and only a powder room on the main level. All good until life happened. Having surgery and don't want to contend with stairs? Stay on the main level but no bath facilities there. Want to move your elderly mother into the house? She can't navigate stairs. Have a friend with mobility issues? She can't easily get into the home because there are no railings at the entryways. Low toilets, no grab bars, narrow doorways, tall cabinets - all become issues down the road.
A red flag for my husband & I now is when we see rocks or pebbles in landscaping close to the home. Our first home was in a neighborhood that had terrible drainage. We tried adding bushes & mulch under the front windows, but during a bad storm a year later we literally had water enter our front doors twice! We spoke with a professional landscaper & he explained mulch compacts like concrete during rain rather than letting water drain through. We quickly replaced all of our mulch with river pebbles afterwards & never had an issue again. When looking for our current home though, we scratched off any homes with rocks out front though as it would be too hard to know what drainage was like in that area.
Your advice is excellent thank you.
We interviewed our real estate agents. Hired one that had experience as a building contractor. Told him flat out we weren't looking for pretty, we were looking for functional and well built. HVAC and foundation, not granite countertops. He was awesome, and pointed out many many serious construction flaws. We hired our own building inspector as a condition of sale. Another great decision for just a few 100 bucks. It's a fraction of the cost of the most expensive item you will ever buy in your life. And yes one of the items on our list, after many years of renting old properties, was counting the electrical outlets and noting their placement in every room. Our real estate agent remarked that it was the first time he'd ever seen anybody do that but couldn't fault us for doing so.
I love your videos... but I do wish you could also show designs or blueprints of what should be done at the same time as what should not be done.
It would help visualization more if there is a comparison.
You really nailed all of the red flags! I live in a condo that has a super layout. The three bedrooms are located in the back, which was on my list for a must-have. The only thing that bothers me is the hallway. The coat closet is on the left side, a furnace room, and the laundry. The right side has a linen closet. What bothers me is that the doors are at different heights. There's regular doors for the coat and linen closets, then a sliding door on the furnace room and a bi-fold door on my laundry room. What would you recommend in order to fix my issue? Or is this something I'm being too picky about?
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I’m sensitive to ugly exposed plumbing. Crooked pipes, ugly shut off valves, off center installations etc.
The outlets and switches are key. It dictates where you can put furniture too!
Oh no. Another one from the vast country of 'Extension-Cords-Ban'. Must be hard to live there.
Upon home inspection, the city may require de-construction of any unpermitted additions or "upgrades." Nightmare, but less of a problem than if wiring or plumbing goes wrong after purchase.
New drinking game: Take a shot every time he says "If we're being honest..."
Or “the amount of times I’ve seen…”
Sorry but red floors are not a reg flag. They are just challenging to work with. saying they are a red flag means they are inherently bad or badly installed.
"Powder room" (or as we call them in Europe, toilets) are SUPER common in Belgium and France (and probably in a lot of european countries) so I find it funny to see you hate that :p They are usualy made when the house has only one bathroom with a toilet inside so we add another single tiny toilet/ "powder room" for either the guests (no one want the guest to see your only bathroom used by the whole family) or simply so 2 peoples can go at the same time. And yes they are tiny because you're not supposed to spend a lot of time there (and we don't always have a lot of available space). In newer french buildings they have regulations for the toilets so a wheelchair can fit it them. They have to build huge bathrooms and separate toilets with a lot of empty space for accomodation. So now our toilets also become our laundry rooms (and it's a lot harder to make it pretty with a big laundry machine and a toilet in front of the door.)
Ce n'est pas qu'il ne les aime pas. C'est qu'il n'aime pas lorsque les propriétaires ajoutent une (ce qu'au Québec on appelle une salle d'eau ou une demi-salle de bain) là ou il y avait auparavant un garde-robe ou une autre pièce beaucoup trop petite pour qu'elle soit vraiment utilisable.
En Amérique du Nord, c'est commun d'avoir une salle de bain complète *et* une salle d'eau, du moins dans les maisons. Et c'est de plus en plus commun d'avoir la buanderie séparée de la salle de bain, idéalement sur le même étage que les chambres. Je dis ça, parce qu'avant (années 50-70s), la buanderie était souvent placée au sous-sol, alors que les chambres étaient à l'étage. Les plus chanceux étaient ceux qui avaient une petite chute à linge.
@@nathalie_desrosiers Oui je m'en doute mais même le fait de se dire "oh un cagibi, je vais le transformer en toilette" c'est vraiment super courant :p Toutes les photos qu'il a montré, ce serait même pas considéré comme "trop petit" chez nous.
@@novart9230 C'est pas que c'est trop petit, mais que dans ces toilettes bricolées à l'arrache, la plomberie est souvent faite n'importe comment et qu'il n'y a pas de système de ventilation.
I think he said he only hates powder rooms when they are too small for real use
Different strokes for different folks because I love long hallways
I need a collab between Design Daddy and Daddy Nick!
If there’s room to sit down, small powder rooms can be charming! I was in one once with the TINIEST sink! ❤
I see bedrooms off living spaces all the time, and i couldn't figure out why i hate it, so thank you for mentioning that!
Your videos/advices are something else 💯 Perfect! Thank you
I Love old houses 1890’s and up. I grew up in an old Victorian style farmhouse., even found the original well one summer. Get a good home inspector. It’s worth the time and money. They will report everything . Review it thoroughly and ask questions. Ask them about red flags.
I absolutely love old homes as well. You cannot duplicate the charm the character and workmanship compared to modern builds. Having said that no matter the age, a private home inspection is worth every penny to avoid the possibility of larger issues upon purchase.
You can look up the address of the home on the city website and see what permits have been pulled. Then you know it's up to code for that project, the permit will tell you the scope of work done, there should also be separate permits for plumbers/pipefitting and electricians.
Long hallways in older homes, especially for those built before air conditioning was widely available, serve the purpose of a breeze way to help cool the home.
I rent a 1980s townhome and the main living area doesn't have ceiling lighting. There is a switch at the entry wired to a half hot outlet. It's super annoying.
my friend has no end of issues with her 80s townhouse, the workers come in and shake their heads '80s house'
Same. I have to put lamps everywhere
The switch lighting thing is no joke. I live in the United States and bought a home that had this in 2 of the 4 upstairs bedrooms and the room that the previous owners were using as a dining room. It's horrible! Sure, it powers lamps and all, but if you have a phone or something in charging? That gets shut off too. There were other things and our financial situation that made the home worth it overall, but dawd dayum was the lack of independent overhead lighting annoying.
Gawd* lol
Living in Italy,
70 square meters with 9+sm of hallway and two outlets in kitchen and bedrooms, three outlets in the livingroom, bathroom only one outlet. 🙄
Extensions, decks, patios, etc. Most often look like an odd appendage to the house, usually the wrong proportions, style, or whatever. They rarely look right. Often pathetic at best, and that is just the aesthetics of it.
When it comes to Guatemala, electrical outlets are a big problem. In my apartment, my living room/bedroom space has only ONE electrical outlet! Same with the kitchen. Since the apartment only costs me $115/month (which includes, electricity, trash service, water and the gardener's salary), I can't complain too much.
Fantastic tips as we are planning to right size next year. I toured a beautiful condo this summer. The model was furnished but guest room was so small. I asked agent if it was a double bed and she said no a queen. I said let’s measure it. She didn’t have a tape measure so I whipped mine out and it was indeed a double. I told her it was a bit like false advertising.
As someone who has to come in and fix this crap - McMansions with sawdust and epoxy outdoor railings and siding. after a few years, the paint doesn't seal them and they just crumble.
👀 Watching from Europe 😂😂
regarding old looking toilets in old homes. Be thankful you have one. They flush 5 gallons and DON"T require multiple flushes to rid the bowl. Also they have straight sided pedestals, not those horrendous ones where the trap, siphon and internal plumbing make a design statement. Remember you have to clean these things. With an old toilet its a quick swipe. With a modern one, you are on hands N knees cleaning the zillions of nooks and crannies. You do not want to spend time communing with your toilet bowl, with your face in the porcelain. Plus an old fixture adds charm and class to an old house.
I didn't pay that much attention to the video, but I bet he'd hate houses in New Orleans. Many of them are shotgun style houses where the kitchen or bedroom are in the back of the home.
I encountered so many DIY flips during my recent househunting saga. Most of them had screaming red flags, like LVP installed over hardwood on a very unsteady floor. Lots of hastily finished basements, too. Like, what are y'all hiding? That ugly gray LVP isn't distracting me from the fact that the doors slam themselves and the floor is concave.
Now, this was a very helpful video! Thanks!
I loved my red Douglas fir floors in BC.
Thank you. Great advice!
Thank youuuuu for all the red flags 😅😊
Intelligent man. Great video, thank you.
I’ve got a question: if you have one of these red flags (eg: toilet Seen when first walked in) and you couldn’t remove/relocate the flaw, how would you go about fixing it/working around it?
Yes if the powder room is too small you might end up paying a lot to fix the plumbing!
Outlets are the bane of my existence in my house. I have a lot of them, but they’re in weird places where you will see all the cords if you plug anything into there. And the outlet that the light switches go to is right next to the door….which is just so pointless to me.
I thought my house was smaller than it was because it wasn’t staged (owner still lived there the until sale) and the furniture was way too big for the space
I adore this series. TFS
Outstanding advice! Thank you -this is a public service.
Beware of Box Elders anywhere on the property…nightmare…their branch width matches their root spread, they don’t typically grow straight, spread like wildfire, almost impossible to kill…provide great shade and give the illusion of a lovely backyard with trees…NO!!!
Smaller nightmares, anything that spreads: grape vines, ivy, vinca,…
My condo doesn't have ceiling lights outside of the kitchen, but has outlets and like 3 sconces haha. There's no electrical in the ceilings and I've wondered whether the developers were able to make the building shorter and save money that way.
To get more amps. They just change the panel. You do not need to rewire your whole house. You do not need to change switches and outlets.
Cherry red wood floors, just stain them Japan black in Satin or Matte. Never gloss though. The dust! lol
True on the staged furniture!
But why do people need or buy a huge sectional for 2-3 people?
Is a couch the new recliner?
How a put a comfy reading chair?
More of this plz
i like this guy cuz hes got something very important in life wich is "taste" so im subscribig now
You’re wrong about the trusses, too. Load bearing walls in a home with trusses run perpendicular to the trusses. Just as the trusses run perpendicular to the exterior walls that support them.
I could have used this a year ago. Sage advise. Thank you.
Most west LA homes have little or no cell phone reception at home.
Hmmmm. I live in a tiny 1940s cottage in Hawaii with one full bathroom. I need to convert a closet to a VERY basic half bath (with a small sink & toilet) for visiting guests. I am hiring licensed contractors (to build to code), getting estimates soon. Fingers crossed!
What are you talking about? Upgrading the service to a home does not require upgrading the switches and outlets in the home. Upgrading the amperage allows you to add more circuits. It does not change the existing circuits. A new panel is installed with space for more breakers. That panel can handle more amps. The existing circuits are wired into it, and switches and outlets remain the same.
Do a reaction to Lenny Kravitz’s house in Brazil and Naomi Campbell’s villa in Kenya! They are amazing!
yes, they are.
I hate walking in a kitchen and seeing a stove.
I hate walking in a bedroom and seeing a bed.
if the first thing I see when I walk in a room is the thing that room is specifically for I get triggered
And don’t even get me started on hallways. Hallways in a house or a condo?! That’s why I always carry an emergency Xanax.
@@Derek-Adams 😆
He is right about toilets though.
@anonz975 no he's not. who has time to be peeved you can see a tiolet in the bathroom, that's just weird. We all go #2 hiding the toilet won't make it smell better.
@@janesweepingbush2289 When the toilet is opposite of the door it is visible from other rooms whenever the door is open. No one wants to see the toilet from the hall, bedroom, family room etc... or have the door accidentally opened when you are on the throne and a roomful of people sees you there.
Thanks for these tips! Do part 2 please :)
Don’t houses have to be officially surveyed during the buying process like in the UK? Surely the surveyor would identify where the house is not up to code?
Great advice! Thanks!
OMG, we are selling our house and you just described every room in it as a RED Flag....as always you have given great advice, I just hope non of our potential buys watch your channel :)
Dry rottt windows. Temp outside is the temp inside. It looks perfectly normal but you have to be up close and personal to notice