Budgeting for a major home renovation. Actual costs and savings tips

You can save money on your major home renovation. What are the items that you can do yourself and what is best left to a contractor? This video outlines how we saved over $27,000 for our major home renovation by tackling a number of the items ourselves. Are you planning a major renovation? What tips do you have for saving money?
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We bought a major fixer upper in 2012 and a lot of the house was original from the 1970's. We spent 6 years saving and planning for a major home renovation. In this renovation, we gutted the kitchen, remove all carpet and flooring, painted all the brown trim in the home, sanded and painted interior and exterior doors including the louvered laundry and closet doors, changed light fixtures and outlets. The plumbing and electrical we were able to tackle ourselves with help from friends. The biggest savings was doing the floor ourselves.
00:00 Intro
00:24 save money by doing it yourself
00:59 Original appliances and carpet
02:06 Paint your ceiling yourself
03:00 Home renovation budget of $30,000
03:55 You can do demo yourself
04:39 Contractor did our drywall
04:54 DIY paint to save big money
05:45 Electrical and Plumbing DIY to save money
07:11 Moving your oven means electrical work
07:37 Shark Bit Fittings make plumbing easy
08:12 Paint instead of tile backsplash
08:35 Cabinet and counters installed by professional
08:57 Painting Trim, doors and louvered doors
09:15 Install Luxury Vinyl Plank Yourself to save money
10:27 Why we chose luxury vinyl plank flooring
11:26 particle board subfloor will rot over time
12:49 Subfloor prep is the key to flooring install
14:14 Appliance purchase and install
14:42 Total Renovation Price
15:00 Home renovation prices are up after covid
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[@poodledad]

Are you planning a major renovation? What tips do you have for saving money?

[@adrianarodriguez6999]

Thanks for all the tips. I will be tackling my home renovation next year

[@poodledad]

Awesome, what do you have planned?

[@adrianarodriguez6999]

Replacing cabinets, floors, backsplash, moving some plumbing. Also painting throughout.

[@poodledad]

@@adrianarodriguez6999 Awesome, will you do a lot yourself?

[@adrianarodriguez6999]

@@poodledad probably not. I plan on just doing the painting haha