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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. I have a feeling no one on this board has done this type of renovation. Please respond if you have!

They do this kind of thing all the time on the HGTV shows. Property Brothers, Love it or List it, Flip or Flop. I'm sure the construction costs are more here. Just want to get a sense (effort & $) for it. [/quote]

We DIY most things.  We've done doors, windows, hardwood, trim, painting, redid the drywall in the basement after the contractor screwed it up, leveled the basement floor, electrical and plumbing so yes we know.   We pieced out our basement with some DIY some paid.  Its very very expensive and those shows are all fake.  Nothing is like what they describe.  Replacing our ductwork in the basement of a tiny house was $2K.  Electrical for the basement was $8K.  You need to call contractors.  Anything structural will be very very costly.[/quote]

Thank you! This is exactly what I was hoping to see. We're pretty handy and do a lot of DIY stuff but not to the degree that you all have! Did you hire a HVAC guy for the ductwork or was that partly DIY?

I'm prepared for significant costs for this. Might need several beams and new columns and new footings and then the stair/rails. Just want to have ballpark numbers in mind. I'm thinking it's in the 10's of thousands, not 100's. [/quote]

No way I would touch anything structural without getting an engineer out.  What you are proposing isn't a $20-30K job.  You could DIY things but you don't see to have any knowledge if you are asking these questions.

We hired out for the duct work.  We planned to DIY but our HVAC needed replaced so we had him do it.[/quote]

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