No, they are just examples of the overages.
Just a reminder to everyone:
Original Estimate without really being able to get into the house and look under the covers = $86k-90k
First revised estimate (cannot remember exactly, would have to go back through hundreds of posts) after having to go get permits and pay for a lot of additional services = $120k
Another revised estimate = $136k
Now = $141,000
so, including the purchase price and fees, it might just be over 700K. That is a great deal if you sell it at 900K, netting 150K. There is no chance you can get the same deal in the Bay Area, looked for it for over 6 mo. The deal I told you that had a major foundation problem went for just 30K under the asking price and the house is only worth a little bit more than the asking, so you work for nothing.
I had a house twice as big as yours and the re-roofing, including new plywood went for $8000 that is including the two car garage and the gutters. Why your roof so expensive? saw you had some new hanger, binder and purling were those the cost overruns? You did not change the ridge have you?
I think I might have put the actual construction of the whole new roof over the shed in that cost. Also, we had a huge demolition cost because everything had to be torn off the roof and carried down the stairs to a dumpster. Needed all new plywood. The materials cost alone was $4,000, plus some odds and ends more.
Yours is a small simple house. 1100 sqft. The roof I had is complex 3 levels, with wood shakes to be removed, new plywood, new everything. For that, I hired a contractor and that was only $8500 ish. Oh, the $500 was for a roof of a gazebo which took a guy whole day, otherwise $8000.
I know, like I said… it should have been about $4,000 and ended up way too high. I need to watch that cost closer next time. I paid $2,000 for labor. It took 3 guys about 3 days to do the main roof. 1 day for tear off, some eave replacements (rotted) and plywood install. And another 2 days for flashing, vent, flat roof portion torch and shingle install.
Also, as I mentioned many many posts ago. They started work on a Sunday (because they are moonlighting from their regular roofing jobs) and a neighbor from 2 blocks away came and complained so we had to stop work within 1 hour and I had to pay them some money for just showing up - it wasn’t their fault.
Sign is Up!!!
My agent insisted that we needed to get our For Sale sign up and put a ‘Coming Soon’ on top of the sign. It is not in the MLS yet. I warned her that no one can walk into the house until Monday next week because the floors are getting coats of stain, sealer and polyurethane. Sure enough, within 3 hours of the sign being up she had 4 phone calls just from drive bys. One agent wants to bring clients through on Saturday - Uhhh Noooo!! I think she is trying very hard to avoid having to stage the house for photos and showings. I also warned her that she better have some kind of price ready because that will be the first thing people will ask when they call from the sign.
She chose $925,000!!! Wow, I’m thinking No Way. Her rationale is that we can ask $925k before it goes into the MLS and see what happens from the Coming Soon interest. If we get no interest at all at that price, then we will list in the MLS at $899,000. My feeling is that $925,000 is just too close to a million and people looking for million dollar homes really want more square feet and more yard and more garage space. We will see
Meanwhile, a little 2bd/1ba 1,000sqft home sold All Cash quickly at 4523 Orchard. Really only has views from inside in one room - peek view down the street. Other views are from the outside deck. And the house is in poor condition, needs everything. But it is superior location in our neighborhood. Sold over asking price of $775,000 with multiple offers to $820,800 (it will show as $816,000 on Zillow, etc. because Selling Agent reduced their commission so Seller actually received $820,800)
Very exciting! Now we’re looking forward to hearing about the bidding war.
Coralbrook, You should be very optimistic. Your sales price may surprise you. 4 phone calls already!
Sq ft isn’t everything!
Today’s Challenges
Very busy day today. We are getting the stain onto the wood floors. However, after one coat of stain I really don’t see any difference in the floors, except maybe they look wet. There is supposed to be a very very slight grey hue to the floors to give them an ‘aged’ look. But I don’t see it yet. I am going to look at them tomorrow morning after the stain completely dries and see if we need another coat of the stain before proceeding onto the sealant and polyurethane. I have decided to do a Matte finish on the floors instead of satin or high gloss. The floors are very important because it is a lot of landscape seen by Buyers as they walk in the door.
I decided to put thin redwood lathe and bender board over the courtyard back fence in a slight pattern. So, loaded up 16 ft pieces and we created the design. At first I wanted the pieces about 1/4" apart so we stopped, punted and quickly painted up the ugliness of the back fence in case the eye could see behind the slats. In a stroke of genius I found the gallon of paint of the hideous blue that we started to paint in the master bedroom (and then covered up with primer and repainted with a gorgeous pale steel blue/grey). Of course the blue looked much paler and nicer in the sunlight on the fence. After it gets all painted, then I decide that the 1/4" apart pattern just doesn’t look good so we spaced the pieces only 1/8" apart. Also, the redwood looks very very red against all the white in the courtyard - I don’t like it. I may have to break down and give the redwood a grey wash. However, over time that redwood will age to grey anyways, not sure I should waste my time. I’m hoping that there will be enough budget to build some really cool planter boxes in the back fence and fill them with greenery
Then I rush off to pick up all of the baseboard so we can get it painted and installed early next week. This is especially important because buyers have a hard time looking past the rough mess at the bottom of the walls that is going to get covered with baseboard. I ordered the baseboard over the phone and when I showed up to pick them up at the store, they were the wrong thing. Turns out the receptionist gal wrote the wrong part number and price onto the one that I selected. Luckily I brought the sample piece with me and showed her that they had made the mistake. Of course the one I really want is 30 cents more per linear foot, plus more for each of the rounded corner pieces I need for the round corners in this house. Total extra about $140. And, all of the warehouse guys had gone home and there wasn’t anyone to pull what I really want. I was not happy, it cost me about an hour round trip. So, I grabbed a sample of the less expensive stuff they thought I wanted and took it back. But… cannot get into the house now to put the samples up to see if I can live with the less expensive one or have to go back to the one I originally wanted. Another delay.
More photos loaded
What’s the name of the gorgeous steel blue/gray paint?
The floors look really nice!
Old wood is almost impossible to match. It changes color when it ages.
Did you give any thought to removing the post between the entryway and the front room?
Cannot remove them, they are holding up the original exterior of the house, even though there is a huge header that spans the entire length. Oh well, too late now, but… maybe not. I’ll ask my carpenter.
Yes, the flooring guy said that if I left it alone and just covered with polyurethane the two floors would ‘age’ together and be close in color in about 6 months. As usual, I don’t have 6 months 
I only have one week to get the floors to match!
Probably not a can of worms to open at this point. 
You would probably have to get a structural engineer to calculate the required header size. It looks like there is plenty of wall space if it needs to be bigger, but then you are tearing everything open… the columns at the ends of the span need to be sized, and there’s foundation issues to consider as well.
Plus it will likely make a tiny hole in your brandy-new floor.
Forget I said anything. 
Here are the two choices for baseboard
Monterey 5 1/4" high - which is the less expensive baseboard that they had pulled and ready for pickup. However, this does not match our door trim which is plain 4" wide wood with slight rounding. It might look weird up next to the door trim coming down to the floor
http://www.houzz.com/photos/186804/lobby-traditional-entry-providence
Plain Bullnose 5 1/2" high - cannot really find any good pictures of the plain bullnose trim
The paint I fell in love with that is in the master bedroom is:
Olympic color (from Lowe’s)
Thin Ice
However, I have discovered that steel blue/greys look different in every room, depending on the light. So, get only a sample and try in the room to view it different times of day
Honestly I think you are expecting way too much from your buyers if you think they will be able to tell that a particular molding style doesn’t optimally match another molding.
The floor moldings in my house don’t match the door moldings. In fact, I just took a walk around my house, the floor moldings are not the same in every room, and some rooms have different moldings on different walls. In 20+ years of living here, I never really noticed before.
The paint on the steel fence is a nice touch and probably should help protect from rust in the future. The whole place is shaping up beautifully!