#83: The Loophole We Found In Our Duplex Delay
Young House Love Has A Podcast
John Petersik
4.9 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2018
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
We’ve encountered a few frustrating setbacks with our beach duplex renovation, but thanks to a small technicality we were finally able to charge ahead and start demolition. Gotta love a loophole! So we're sharing our work-around, and the surprising thing that was discovered during demo. Plus, when it comes to buying things online without touching or seeing them in person first, we've become much more willing to go for it these days, so we’re sharing our tips for minimizing your risk when shopping for home stuff online (including how to unlock even more reviews, and what items we haven't had the courage to buy online yet). Plus, we make the case for rethinking your shower curtain and the verdict on whether or not a weighted blanket can solve Sherry’s sleep problems.
Be sure to check out younghouselove.com/podcast-83/ for notes, links, and photos from this episode.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, this week's episode is brought to you by HandiPaint Products, a small family-owned |
| 0:06.4 | company in Minnesota who's all about making your paint projects easier. We've been buying |
| 0:10.4 | their red painting cups and trays for years, so stay tuned for some pro advice from them |
| 0:14.6 | later in the show and check out HandiPaint products wherever you buy paint. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm John and I'm Sherry. We like home stuff. We like talking. And we like the occasional |
| 0:28.0 | game show sound effect. So welcome to YounghouseLove as a podcast. For we have deep and not so |
| 0:35.5 | deep, conversations about DIY, design, and life at home. |
| 0:39.5 | Today we finally got some good news to share about our much delayed and maybe cursed duplex |
| 0:43.7 | renovation. We've also got tips for making online furniture shopping less scary and |
| 0:48.0 | I share some passionate feelings about shower curtains. |
| 0:52.4 | As you might have seen on our blog a couple weeks ago or on Instagram, we had a little |
| 0:56.0 | bit of a rough patch getting the duplex off the ground. We're on a break with the |
| 1:00.2 | duplex right now. We're not on a break. I told the contractor I was willing to sell |
| 1:05.0 | duplex if he wanted to buy it. He said he needed a payment plan and then I said, |
| 1:08.8 | fine, never mind, I will keep the duplex. Immediately as it was more complicated than, |
| 1:13.5 | yes, final ticket, you were out of the deal. If you just gave me all the cash I would have |
| 1:16.5 | taken it and ran. Well, so if you saw that the short version of it and we'll put a link |
| 1:21.4 | to the blog post with the long version, is that listeners of the podcast know we were |
| 1:25.3 | trying to make some changes to the exterior of the duplex. We were going to increase |
| 1:29.2 | the roof pitch and we wanted to add a cute little dormer at the top of it. I remember |
| 1:33.0 | our famously saying, given more time to noodle, we came up with this great plan. And so |
| 1:37.3 | we're glad we had extra time because this great plan was born well. The great plan was |
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