Good story, Senior! I have remodeled several houses myself. I always carefully make the estimates of materials, what I'll do myself, what I'll hire out. Then when I've got the final figures as close as possible, I multiply by 3 and it usually works out fine!
(it took a few to learn that, though!).
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