How Many Things Do I Actually Need - Basement
One of my readers shared his story with me that I believe
most of my article readers would appreciate. It was about the problems
they had while framing a few rooms in their basement. After you're done
reading the article, you should have a better idea about creating lists
and purchasing tools.
It was a brand-new home and John was going to refinish the basement on
his own. He never worked in construction and no one that he ever knew
growing up in Boston, had never built anything. John was the product of
an extremely wealthy family, who had at least one person who could fix
anything, just one phone call away.
John knew he could do it, so he went online and ordered about $3000
worth of tools. Tools that he believed, he would need to refinish his
basement on his own. Air compressors, nail guns, saws, screw guns, table
saw, nail bags, hammers, tape measures and the list goes on and on.
He put all the tools in his basement, ordered some building materials
and went to work. He started to mark out the positions of the walls and
realize that he didn't have a pencil or any type of marker. All he had
in his house were expensive pens and he wasn't about to use one of them.
This was his first trip down to the lumber yard, but it wasn't going to
be his last. He never even thought about creating a list for other items
that he might need. Luckily for him the lumber yard was only about 15
minutes from his home, without any traffic that is.
He purchased his pencils and came back to start on the project, only to
realize that he had purchased a chalk box but didn't realize that it
didn't have any chalk in it. This was now the second trip to the lumber
yard in less than two hours, without a list.
John told me that it took him all most 10 eight hour days to frame 15
walls in his basement. Not knowing anything about construction or what
tools he would need, he made plenty of trips down to the local lumber
yard.
John had a lot of fun finishing his basement, but couldn't believe how
many things it actually took to finish it. His original tool purchase
had doubled, the only problem was that his first load of tools came in
one shipment and all the rest came one piece at a time.