View Profile: beingteri

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About beingteri

• Location SoCal
• Experience Hard Core Do It Yourselfer, not because I don't want to pay to have something done...but because I really like doing it myself! I find that working with my hands is a great release. It also much more satisfying to look at a completed project, knowing you had everything to do with it. We bought a fixer upper about 5 years ago and immediately started tearing things out. I read up on what I wanted to do, then went at it. We've redone the copper piping throughout as well as updated all the wiring, re-routed a few gas lines to move the location of the stove, bring the H2O heater back inside the house, and turn a closet into a laundry room. We tiled the bathroom floor and walls, laid laminate flooring throughout, and laid carpet in the 3 bedrooms. The most recent improvement was to install new kitchen cupboards. Friends and relatives have been so impressed with our results, they've hired us to do jobs in their homes now. It's fun, keeps me busy, and little bit of money we get comes in handy! Did I mention that I was 8.5 months pregnant with my first daughter when we were laying the carpets in the bedrooms, and 8.5 months pregnant with our 2nd daughter and a 20 month old at home, as I assembled all the cabinets while my husband was at work, then helped him install them after he got home! I'm a go-getter that's for sure!
• Live Advice Rate (USD/min) $.35