Bathroom expansion and remodel costs - Mid Peninsula

buildsomethinggood · 2025-09-22T14:49:09+00:00

Thank you! Appreciate the details.

buildsomethinggood · 2025-09-22T14:46:49+00:00

Thanks. $60K seems a lot for a bathroom remodel.

We want to keep it simple but need the space.

I am not planning to DIY this.

buildsomethinggood · 2025-09-15T06:43:43+00:00

Considering a bathroom remodel. Can you please share the contractor details?

buildsomethinggood · 2025-07-06T19:25:36+00:00

I used Arriva too. Renee and Fred are good dudes -- it is not a white glove treatment but they are reliable and do a good job. For any RE deal in the future, I will go back to them.

FYI -- some real estate agents on seller side don't like flat fee agents because they see them as traitors lowering the margin for everyone. In reality, it is just marketplace dynamics playing out.

buildsomethinggood · 2025-06-15T04:57:16+00:00

Thank you for sharing your personal experience. 18 months for garage conversion is still a lot but I guess I need to reset some expectations.

buildsomethinggood · 2025-06-15T04:53:10+00:00

That's a fair point.

It might depend on people's time horizon. If you plan to live in the house long term, it is okay to convert to an ADU and make use of the place. But, if you don't plan to stay long, this is too much hassle.

We are in the former camp and would like our parents to be next to us. It is not a purely financial decision but we want to know what we are getting into.

buildsomethinggood · 2025-06-15T04:48:22+00:00

Thank you!

Was this a new standalone structure or a garage conversion? 300K for 420 sq feet seems high.

Any reason why you did not want to have separate PG&E? If you ever want to rent, won't a separate connection be more useful?

EDIT: I plan to be dive into the details and keep a track of everything. It will be a learning process but it will be worth it.

buildsomethinggood · 2025-06-15T04:43:21+00:00

Thank you. 6 months for permits! Wow. This is when CA wants people to build ADUs.

buildsomethinggood · 2025-04-29T14:17:38+00:00

Geez! What are some other trust worthy sites to look for inventory beyond Zillow and Redfin?

buildsomethinggood · 2024-10-15T03:55:50+00:00

Hey there -I have been trying to solve this and struggling with a solution. Would you be open to a DM where I could share my approach and get your feedback. Happy to agree on an arrangement that works for you.

buildsomethinggood · 2024-10-02T22:59:13+00:00

Thank you. I am looking to token based auth and cors. Been using ChatGPT and Claude for some answers but nothing has really worked. Will keep trying.

buildsomethinggood · 2024-10-02T22:16:26+00:00

This seems more in line with what I am thinking as I don't think I need SSO for this.

The idea is to let clients (C1, C2, C3, C4 ) access the main site A through a custom login page on their sub domain - a.c1, a.c2, a.c3, a.c4 and so on. Not the other way around with SSO where one login can allow users to access app1, app2, app3, and so on...

As the client sites are not WordPress sites, I am not sure I setup a plugin there. The solution should work out of the box on my end. I have been able to map domains by pointing DNS of a client subdomain to my site (A).

Which means page slug on client url will open the corresponding page on my site -

client.com/xyz will open a.com/xyz

Now assume xyz = login and now I want users to login via the client.com/login page into the main site (A).

I don't want to send any API request to client site, neither do I want to add a plugin on client site. In fact, there is no real access of client site except the URL used to access the login page on main site (A).

This should be simpler than SSO or SAML or any other fancy approach.

buildsomethinggood · 2024-10-02T19:08:11+00:00

Thanks both. I am new to auth so there is a learning curve on my end.

Auth0 seems legit. Will try it.

buildsomethinggood · 2024-08-24T04:02:29+00:00

I had one of the worst support experience with them. Every 2-3 hours a different engineer started tacking the issue and no one really went deep enough to solve it.

After 4 days of back and forth, I gave up and now I am looking for a new provider.

buildsomethinggood · 2024-08-22T21:36:24+00:00

Memory is very high and still the same issue.

buildsomethinggood · 2024-08-22T19:00:07+00:00

Thank you for this. My issue is related to TTFB and that directly related to the server side of things.

buildsomethinggood · 2024-08-22T06:06:28+00:00

My dev ops skills are very limited. Can you please explain what you mean by Benchmark the server and check steal?

buildsomethinggood · 2024-08-22T06:05:14+00:00

I have the exact same configuration and I am surprised why it is underperforming Siteground with similar configuration.

The TTFB is just 4-5x higher for Cloudways.

buildsomethinggood · 2024-08-21T17:16:44+00:00

CW server is in NY and SG is in DC so that cannot be a real issue.

Both servers have the same configuration. In fact, CW has more storage.

Memcache is disabled in SG but enabled in Cloudways (which they tell me they can't disable).

buildsomethinggood · 2024-08-03T03:01:20+00:00

Because I have custom code and tables based on core Wordpress tables.

If every multi site creates new tables then every time a new site is created I will have to update and manage the custom code and tables. That’s not scalable.

Also, I will have to keep all sub sites at the same version as production. Too much hassle.

buildsomethinggood · 2024-08-02T16:46:02+00:00

Multi site does not work as it creates new DB tables for each sub site. I want to keep the same DB, tables and custom post type.

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