I think cb needs a week on a beach after selling this house. Or, at the very minimum, a week of lounging on that patio furniture with a tropical drink! 
CB, the house is beautiful. I can’t believe how you turned an outdated Liberace style home into a contemporary showplace. Can you come up the coast and flip one here? There are many houses that could use your touch!
And the regulars on this thread are amazing. You all have great suggestions. Makes me want to start a thread so you can help me choose colors for my kitchen!
Good morning everyone, i had to knock myself out last night to get some sleep. The floor is really turning into a disaster just as we are trying to have Open Houses. We are madly trying to get advice from flooring guy but hes not answering phone today, dang it. We have a full buckle between two boards sticking up one inch. My carpenter is begging to cut out one piece to let the humidity out. I dont know what to do.
Agent keeps saying we cannot have those fans on because buyers will be coming through. Im stuck between a rock and a hard place. Big mess!! The last thing we want buyers to think is ‘shoddy workmanship’ ,water damage or big leaks could happen at any moment:)
We are live!! Just got listed in MLS for $1,039,000. I haven’t been able to clearly see the photos she chose because i can only view on tiny phone.
I cannot link to MLS listing so i dont know how long it will take to find it on Internet
Just saw the professional pictures on the listing and they look fabulous! Everything looks light and bright and spacious. I particularly like the way the views out the windows are captured everywhere - looking through from the front door, reflected in the kitchen backsplash, everywhere on the upper level. And the new cushions do pop!
I did notice that one picture from the living room to the kitchen seems to show the garage with equipment through a door on the right? I didn’t notice that until the third time I looked though. Can your agent crop the right side of that photo at this point?
I can understand why the brokers were raving because the house now looks like a bargain for its price range compared to the (very few) competitive listings in the area. If I’m the target audience (empty nester/retiree), I like it much better than the Hoarder house. We’ll try to drop by the open house this weekend and eavesdrop!
See and be awed: http://www.estately.com/listings/info/2728-nipoma-st
Also: http://www.sdlookup.com/MLS-150056117-2728_Nipoma_St_San_Diego_CA_92106
Congratulations CB on all your hard work. It is fabulous.
Thanks, @Marilyn! Those pictures are amazing! I wouldn’t be surprised if it sold this weekend.
Hope the floor issue gets resolved. Where is the buckle? Any chance of hiding it? For now, until it can be fixed?
Dual shower in the MB!!! Cb, this would sell the house to Mr. The photos look amazing because the product is amazing!
"We have a full buckle between two boards sticking up one inch. My carpenter is begging to cut out one piece to let the humidity out.
Listen to him and let him do that. The floor does NOT have to be flawless.
Otherwise you are looking at WEEKS of drying out time, and even then the board will not be flat.
Absolutely fabulous!
Wow! Gorgeous photos and I LOVE the pops of color from the pillows and towel.
CB, the big problem with trimming the floor before it fully dries out is that after it fully dries you will have crowning instead of the buckling. Sorry, all I have read is to keep the fans going and dehumidifier to help the floor dry out.
Potential buyers in this price range most likely won’t be deterred by the buckle in the flooring. They may simply ask that it be fixed. The professional photos look fabulous! Fingers crossed for a smooth open house.
If the tongue and groove parts on the sides of the boards have been mangled or crossed or otherwise damaged by the buckling, the boards will likely never flatten out. So unfortunately you may have to cut out and replace some pieces. You might be able to cut the tongues, and possibly the bottom portion of the groove, off of the buckled pieces and push them down. If this is possible you will probably have to surface-nail the pieces to keep them down while it is drying out.
For the open house you might consider replacing the boards now and covering them with an area rug, and deal with staining them next week.
On the phone this morning back and forth about what to do about floors. Here’s our final decision:
Turn AC on full blast for days to help suck humidity
Carefully cut out the two full pieces of floor that are buckling to help release the humidity
Open hole from crawlspace to area above downstairs bath, get in with flashlight and inspect. Put a fan on high ladder and blow below floors
if possible, drill small holes in plywood subfloor to accelerate drying
Go rent industrial fan for upstairs
Agent is going to put fan away during Open Houses but they will have to stay on all other times, possibility that buyers will see fan if they come with agent for a showing
We added ‘floor repair underway’ to confidential remarks to warn agents. We will pretend that floors got scratched or something
Stunning! I hope the floor problem dries out quickly.
We already got a call from agent for a showing this afternoon!! Great, just as carpenter has butt in air cutting up the floor
This house is going to fly off the shelf. Just warn the prospects that the floor has an issue and that it will be repaired before the sale is complete, and you shouldn’t have a problem.
We bought a brand new house that we watched closely as it was being built. The builder was sending his contractors in after we moved in to fix this and that… no problem. He was a perfectionist - I would have never thought that things he was fixing were not supposed to look like they did.