[speaker001:] Are you in the middle of anything?
[speaker002:] [Static] No. I'm not in the middle of anything. I've just, about the last thing I did about maybe, oh, close to a year ago now I guess, I, I helped my dad add on another bedroom on to his house. So, I guess that,
[speaker001:] The whole thing?
[speaker002:] Yeah. That, that was fairly large undertaking. A, a, it's a bedroom and a walk-in closet and a bathroom all on one side of the house.
[speaker001:] Did the framing and all?
[speaker002:] Oh, we did it all except for the sheetrocking.
[speaker001:] Huh.
[speaker002:] That was the only thing we didn't, you know, putting the ceiling up and things like that we don't, we, we weren't sure how to do that and.
[speaker001:] Maybe you and I should get together. Because when I had my last big project, I had the contractor do the framing *slash error: two utts and I did all the sheetrocking [LAUGHTER] and the interior work [throat clearing].
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER] Yeah, that's the exact opposite. We did all, put the roof up and did all the roofing and the, put all the interior walls up. We just didn't do any of the sheetrock wall work and that's it because you have, you know, get those joints to go together
[speaker001:] Ye-,
[speaker002:] and whatever you have to put in there to get the, s-, to take the gaps out between the sheets
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] and on the ceiling and all that. I di-, we didn't know a thing about any of that and so,
[speaker001:] My wife wishes I hadn't done that.
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER].
[speaker001:] [LAUGHTER]. *slash error
[speaker002:] It's, it looked very hard to do so,
[speaker001:] [Throat clearing]. *slash error
[speaker002:] we figured well just, I didn't think we could do it and make it look professional. So, we left it, left it to somebody who does it for a living. But,
[speaker001:] I think it takes about three or four times before it gets easy.
[speaker002:] Probably so and I,
[speaker001:] [Cough]. *slash error
[speaker002:] we'd never done it so
[speaker001:] Yeah [sniffing]. *should be 'b'
[speaker002:] we just left it alone. But that's, I guess, I'm only twenty-one so I, my, my vast experience of home, home owner's knowledge is not very much. So it's just what I have to do, more or less, around the house, you know, for my parents so.
[speaker001:] Did you, you framed it in f-, uh, on, on, you framed in new square footage or was it stuff that was already, uh, enclosed?
[speaker002:] It was brand new.
[speaker001:] Brand new.
[speaker002:] We started with the backyard and turned it into part of the house so it was,
[speaker001:] A-, and you knew how, you knew how to do the framing?
[speaker002:] Uh, well my dad knew how to do most of it, you know.
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] He, he'd, we'd gotten a couple of books and then he just started doing it. I don't know. He, well he did all the flooring himself. He put the whole, the whole floor in and then I just started with the walls and the roof and started there. And then we were, put a, like a, not, not necessarily a garage, but just like a, off the side of that after we had the house part made, we just decided we'd carry the roof out a little bit farther and put a carport more or less. It's not, you know, it's not enclosed. It's just somewhere to drive another car to, to park and it's,
[speaker001:] Do, do you build on slabs down there or did you build it up off the ground?
[speaker002:] Uh, it's off the ground.
[speaker001:] On the piers?
[speaker002:] Uh-huh. It's on about
[speaker001:] Did,
[speaker002:] uh, twenty-two inch piers, something like that.
[speaker001:] You had those poured
[speaker002:] So.
[speaker001:] or you did them yourself?
[speaker002:] Uh, no, those, those are, we did those ourselves so.
[speaker001:] You just put forms in the ground and fill them with concrete?
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] Huh.
[speaker002:] Exactly, so. It's,
[speaker001:] Well, the last thing I did completely myself was an outside deck which I was pretty proud of [LAUGHTER] [NOISE].
[speaker002:] Yeah, those ar-, those are, we'd, I've done one, I helped somebody do one of those before. Those are, those are, you know, you can buy them in kits but we didn't do that way. But it's,
[speaker001:] No I designed it from scratch and did it
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] did a pretty good job. Those are nice. They're pretty forgiving, you know. You can always tear stuff out and redo it. It's a,
[speaker002:] Yeah, yeah. That's not near,
[speaker001:] [Throat clearing]. *slash error
[speaker002:] like building a house or anything but,
[speaker001:] Right [throat clearing]. *slash error should be 'aa'
[speaker002:] Yeah, those are nice. Especially when you get done, you've got something, you know. I don't know, I like them. You just sit down on
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] on the deck and do whatever. Have
[speaker001:] I
[speaker002:] a barbecue or,
[speaker001:] I built it two levels and with a big toy box and some benches and, uh, a backrest and all that stuff. I,
[speaker002:] Yeah, that sounds nice.
[speaker001:] [Throat clearing]. *slash error
[speaker002:] All done by yourself, huh?
[speaker001:] Yeah. *slash error should be 'ny' I had
[speaker002:] Designed,
[speaker001:] a friend with a tractor who dug the pier holes so we could pour concrete and support it with a, a nice firm four by four posts. And, uh
[speaker002:] [Static] Yeah.
[speaker001:] and then the rest of it I just did. A, a contractor friend helped me, uh, with some of the, uh, foundation work but, uh, it was pretty, it was about four or five hundred square feet. The same size as the addition that I just put on so.
[speaker002:] Yeah. That's pretty, that's a good size deck.
[speaker001:] [Throat clearing] Yeah.
[speaker002:] So, yeah. That's,
[speaker001:] It's, uh, not that expensive. I think it cost me three dollars a square foot and, uh, you know, no less than that.
[speaker002:] Yeah. That's not,
[speaker001:] Co-, cost me about five hundred dollars, six hundred dollars all together.
[speaker002:] Yeah, that's good. That's not bad at all. Didn't
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] have to, th-, the wood may it got surprising as to the fact that how much wood is, you know. To get, to get good lumber it costs, I don't know about Dallas, but arou-, even in this little town, it's, it's not cheap at all. I was surprised.
[speaker001:] I'd be surprised if it wasn't, uh, cheaper where you are.
[speaker002:] It's probably more there.
[speaker001:] Well, yeah. It probably comes from where you are.
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER] Yeah, yeah, that
[speaker001:] Most [throat clearing].
[speaker002:] it probably does. I, I'm not sure but,
[speaker001:] When I drive through that area, that's all I see is
[speaker002:] [Noise] Yeah. It's nothing but woods up here, down here.
[speaker001:] pressure treated, pressure treated lumber yards.
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] [LAUGHTER] [throat clearing]. *slash error
[speaker002:] I don't, I haven't, I mean, I haven't, I used to live in Dallas. In Arlington, actually.
[speaker001:] Uh-huh. *slash error should be 'b'
[speaker002:] And, but that was just when I was a kid so I don't really know what the cost of living is even like in Dallas anymore. But it's, I don't know, we're a college town so that doesn't help us out any.
[speaker001:] Right. East Texas.
[speaker002:] We have, gas is a dollar t-, dollar twelve a gallon, so
[speaker001:] Huh.
[speaker002:] that's probably about what you're paying so.
[speaker001:] Yeah, my current project is a walkway which I'm building around the house and out to the backyard to, uh, you know, digging it out and laying sand and putting, uh, pavers on top of that so.
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] That's a lot easier.
[speaker002:] You've got something going all the time.