House Build 2023

[drumminj]

It's rare to install flooring before cabinets. Flooring is usually the very last thing done. Painters hate to have to cover up all the flooring, and risk getting paint on it. Flooring rarely goes under cabinets, you usually set the cabinets and then tile up to them. Trim guys install baseboards half an inch off of the subfloor so you can slide the flooring under the trim. Painters can paint the trim in seconds this way. If there was flooring in place, they would have to tape it before spraying it. Trim is always sprayed, even if it's stained, the clear finish is sprayed over the stain.

LOL at the bolded -- our painters didn't worry about it at all. They were happy to get paint all over our tile and hardwoods (between poly coats :/ ). I curse them regularly...

Don't know if it's regional, a function of when trades were available, or just our builder, but our house went in this order:

1. Tile
2. Cabinets
3. Trim
4. Paint pass #1
5. Hardwoods (incl. first poly coat)
6. Carpet
7. Paint pass #2
8. 2nd Hardwood poly coat

This led to all kinds of issues -- paint on carpets, paint on hardwoods between poly coats (so there until we refinish), etc. Apparently the painter our builder uses doesn't believe in drop cloths.

Our cabinets were painted offsite by the manufacturer (Kabinart). But they're not custom, so I suppose that's why.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

When someone says custom cabinets, my only thought is stained.

 

[EddieWalker]

Homes are like clothing fashion, but instead of changing yearly, they tend to have a decade long cycle. We are several years into the Farm style for exterior homes that really likes white paint, black trim, cedar wood and Board and Baton siding. Tile seems to be fake marble, or white subway, or some combination. Everyone is doing it over and over again, so it's just a matter of time until it runs it course and then nobody wants it, just like glass tile was everywhere, and not it's almost impossible to buy.

Cabinets are all flat panel doors that are painted white or grey. Sometimes another color, but the same cheap build with OSB for the panels and some paint grade wood for the frames. They are easy to paint, cheap to build, and just about every new house and remodel is using them. Cabinet shops love them because they are so easy to make. It's almost impossible to find stained wood in a new house, and the trend is so strong that beautiful stained cabinets are being painted white.

Everyone that I know in the "Tile" world says the same thing. We all hate how ugly the fake marble tile looks with the grey veins, but it's what everyone wants, and we're stuck installing it until this trend changes to the next trend.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Also black standing seam roofing is popular right now. Hope the cat never jumps up there in the summer down south here.

Cat on a hot tin roof...

I like the look of it, it just makes no sense unless you spray 2 part foam on the underside of your roof.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Also black standing seam roofing is popular right now. Hope the cat never jumps up there in the summer down south here.

Cat on a hot tin roof...

I like the look of it, it just makes no sense unless you spray 2 part foam on the underside of your roof.

it sure is. But not for me. I don’t play nice with the latest trends.

 

[drumminj]

I like the look of it, it just makes no sense unless you spray 2 part foam on the underside of your roof.

Or you have a vented attic and your decking is OSB with a radiant barrier applied

 

[4570Man]

LOL at the bolded -- our painters didn't worry about it at all. They were happy to get paint all over our tile and hardwoods (between poly coats :/ ). I curse them regularly...

Don't know if it's regional, a function of when trades were available, or just our builder, but our house went in this order:

1. Tile
2. Cabinets
3. Trim
4. Paint pass #1
5. Hardwoods (incl. first poly coat)
6. Carpet
7. Paint pass #2
8. 2nd Hardwood poly coat

This led to all kinds of issues -- paint on carpets, paint on hardwoods between poly coats (so there until we refinish), etc. Apparently the painter our builder uses doesn't believe in drop cloths.

Our cabinets were painted offsite by the manufacturer (Kabinart). But they're not custom, so I suppose that's why.

It was a struggle finding a painting crew to do a good job and only paint what needs painted. The crew I use now covers 100 percent of the floor and tapes every seam and the edges.

 

[LittleBittyBigJohn]

I cleaned up around the outside until the rain stopped me. I also re-graded around my pond. I had originally made the banks too steep to mow.

 

[LittleBittyBigJohn]

Use what ya got right?

 

[EddieWalker]

I love old busted up brick for filling my ditches.