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Originally Posted by Michael 61
It’s time for me to begin upgrading my new patio villa. I need some direction in which sequential order to complete each project. Here’s what I plan to do:
1) Install gutters
2) Extend concrete on side of house
3) Build birdcage to side on house
4) Re-route sprinkler lines to accommodate extension of concrete / birdcage
5) Landscape side and front of house, including building small retention wall for plants/palms
6) Putting in pavers in driveway
7) Apoxy both interior garage as well as lanai/birdcage
8) Upgrade front door (glass inserts)
9) ** Maybe raise flooring height in lanai, to make even with interior of house**
I will be working with multiple contractors, so need advice where to start first.
Thanks as usual for any help provided.
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Those who have done all on your list can give you great tips, but, I don't think anyone but YOU can make the sequential list, just impossible to say if more natural light (important to me) coming through new glass door insets, or a nice design finish on a lanai floor, is the priority. It's all so individual, we rushed guttering, then found it was probably not a priority in this part of the country, but we got it, and that's fine. Biggest regret is the pavers, gives a fantastic look. But "most" used here are very different than when you see this done at a house in an upscale neighborhood in a northern state. The thin, porous, types used here, to make them MUCH more "affordable", crack easily, need expensive maintenance and the price goes up every year for "re-sealing", as does the material if you do your own. We wish we'd never done pavers for walks and drive. And now that we know more about a lot of things, would not have done a painted drive either. Wish we had just a plain, concrete drive ! But.... MANY love the look, don't mind the on going expense, or the replacement of cracked ones, so no one can tell YOU what would mean the most to YOU. As others have so wisely commented, whatever you decide, DO NOT FAIL to get that ARC approval, legions of true stories about what that can cost ! It only take ONE curious person in your neighborhood to find out if you are 100% in compliance. Now, I'm sure you've seen the growing controversy over people who have UNKNOWINGLY purchased an out of compliance property (wrong percentage of sod vrs. stone, rock, and so on). Seems the R.E. agents do not check all that out when you call one to list your house for sale, and you may not even know, and an unsuspecting buyer does not find out until just one neighbor becomes curious about who is, and who possibly is not, in compliance ! Slippery slope, beware !