Mr. Lui has been busy looking for options to build our garage in the summer. Originally we had budgeted $25K for it but thought it would be wonderful if we could find a cheaper alternative.
Given how (not) handy my Mr. is in construction, he came up the idea of building it ourselves...well, it would be nice only if we know how to do it! So we wiki, google, youtube it and figured it wasn't too difficult at all. I mean, building 4 walls, installing a window that can't be opened, a door, an automatic garage door, and then slab the roof on can't be that hard, right? Also, there are lots of DIY packages at Home Depot or others where you can get everything you need. We really thought we can do it, plus we can enjoy a saving of a couple thousand dollars and learn lots in this process.
But, even though the work itself isn't that hard, but we only know a limited number of handy friends and also considered the liability involved, we crossed this idea off. Wouldn't wanna lose any friend here by breaking their legs!
Luckily Mr. Lui and I are so blessed to know an Auntie who's in construction and she agreed to take on the project at a super discount!!! We're still spending a big chunk of $$ for the garage, but at the end of the day, at least we know that the project is taken care of by someone we know.
She also told us a lot of details that other contractors didn't quote us. We're in luck, as always.
Last last weekend when the guys came over to flatten the backyard in preparation for laying the concrete. Notice there was snow!
Should have taken a picture of the "real" before...well, our backyard doesn't have much other than weed, so I was more than happy that they're all gone now:)
This Sunday another group of people came by and built a frame for the garage. Yep, this weekend was really warm and all of the snow has melted so there were able to get going. We're totally getting there :)
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hey, it's time for new update! it has been over a month already~ =P
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