Biggreenavalanche
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Buying an Amish Farm
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Biggreenavalanche
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scott_vt
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Good Afternoon Rich,
That view sounds like a million dollars..... !
Im sure your busy but post some pics when you can. My grandfather had a small dairy farm in the Catskills Livingston Manor. I loved going there as a kid...
Definitely some beautiful country out that way. I gather your goig to move your whole milk house to the new location ?
Anyway good luck with it, and keep us posted...
That view sounds like a million dollars..... !
Im sure your busy but post some pics when you can. My grandfather had a small dairy farm in the Catskills Livingston Manor. I loved going there as a kid...
Definitely some beautiful country out that way. I gather your goig to move your whole milk house to the new location ?
Anyway good luck with it, and keep us posted...
DianneInVA
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I would like to re-open this discussion. Has anyone recently bought/financed an Amish farm? ( No electricity on the property. No wiring, switches, outlets... nothing. ) Minnesota. Thanks.
I don't have anything on the purchasing or financing side, but as far as the electric goes, I have heard of people running everything in wiremold (aka "outside run", "surface run", or "baseboard run"). If you don't mind the look of it, it would at least keep you from tearing up a bunch of finished walls. It's the same stuff you often see used in commercial buildings to add outlets or fire alarms or whatever after the fact, especially over cinderblock.
Is it already plumbed? Figuring out where the stacks go can be tough on a retrofit, unless you have one wall you can convert into a double for all the stacks and water runs, or at least a spot to build out a box for them to run in. And if you are tearing apart walls for plumbing, then running electric is easy.
Did a nearly full gut when we reconfigured our kitchen, 3 walls plus ceiling, as we were also replacing all the plumbing in the house (old thin copper to pex) and several other things got upgraded while open (tub drain, spray foam under a shower stall to keep the floor pan from flexing then leaking). It sure made moving outlets, switches, and lights around a lot easier.
Is it already plumbed? Figuring out where the stacks go can be tough on a retrofit, unless you have one wall you can convert into a double for all the stacks and water runs, or at least a spot to build out a box for them to run in. And if you are tearing apart walls for plumbing, then running electric is easy.
Did a nearly full gut when we reconfigured our kitchen, 3 walls plus ceiling, as we were also replacing all the plumbing in the house (old thin copper to pex) and several other things got upgraded while open (tub drain, spray foam under a shower stall to keep the floor pan from flexing then leaking). It sure made moving outlets, switches, and lights around a lot easier.
gwstang
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"Is it already plumbed? Figuring out where the stacks go can be tough on a retrofit, unless you have one wall you can convert into a double for all the stacks and water runs, or at least a spot to build out a box for them to run in. And if you are tearing apart walls for plumbing, then running electric is easy. "
They don't have indoor facilities for bathroom etc? Outhouse preferred by them?
They don't have indoor facilities for bathroom etc? Outhouse preferred by them?
