Remodeling a Garage: General Construction

"We're going to try first, to pull their existing duct work. I've checked with all the mechanicals, it looks like this air conditioning system can carry the load, of this extra square footage. We're going to try that first, if we need to then supplement, there's some great new systems out, that we can get into, if we cross that bridge. Where they are standing units that will heat and air this room, beautifully, that are easy to use, to vent. There are European systems that are terrific as well and affordable. We're going to, first, try to use their existing duct work and see if that does an efficient job. We should be able to determine that within the next few days. The first thing we'll be doing is taking this plywood, off these walls, insulating, framing, then we're going to run our new electrical, we're going to run plugs here, here a one ten and a two twenty. You need those two different power sources for the washer and dryer. I hired a licensed electrician to do these things, I don't attempt any of that, myself. We'll be giving them an overhead light, in the center of the room, we'll give them a special task lighting, above the washer and dryer there, on a separate switch. That'll be quite nice for her, she can control her lighting and I think he's getting a plasma so we'll wire, for him, there and then, where the camera is sitting, we're going to bump this wall out, where it's right now a garage door and we'll have three windows, that should bump out about three feet, large enough to accommodate his desk, his chair, his printer and, of course, we'll run electrical over there but that should be a pretty terrific use of that space and that's actually an addition to the room so we're probably gaining about a three by maybe ten are, thirty square feet extra, from this little renovation. Once this room has heating and air, a floor and a ceiling and walls, it's real square footage and it's valued at real square footage so we'll do the math on that later. We'll tell you what we actually gained, equity wise, in this house. So, if they were to have an appraiser come back through, we could, truthfully, tell them how much more value, their house is now and we'll compare it to what we spent, which will be really interesting. If we come off spending, which I hope we end up spending no more than fifteen thousand dollars on this, we'll see what the market value of this is, it'll be an interesting thing for us to know in our beautiful Nashville area here."