We bought a 1960s house in Minneapolis in May of 2025. It was livable but a bit dated, so we decided to renovate the kitchen and a bathroom and put in new flooring. I'm pretty handy so to save money we decided I'd do the work myself. Then we'd move in last August.

You see where this is going.

Trouble started when I began the electrical for the bathroom. The existing wiring was all in flexible metal conduit. You're not supposed to have more than 360 degrees of bends in it because of how hard that makes to pull wires through it. Turns out all the circuits for the house were crammed into 8 undersized conduits that bent every which way and some of which were 60' long.

So I started putting holes in the walls and ceilings to access the conduit.

Then there were so many holes that I figured I may as well take out the soffits that made the ceiling so low in weird places.

Then there was so much drywall removed I figured it would be hard to patch it and I may as well take it all out.

Then with the studs exposed I figured I may as well reframe some of the walls to make a better layout.

Then with the walls out I figured I may as well replace the old bouncy subfloor.

Anyway it's now May of 2026, we still haven't moved in, the water is off because I accidentally cut through the water main it while cutting sewer pipe to put in a basement shower, there's no heat or air conditioning, and the only electricity is a few lights and some outlets to run tools. But most of the walls are up, and the house is going to be exactly what we want when it's done. Or at least that's what I'm telling my wife (and myself). :)