So a while back I was posting here because we were looking at fixers in Pittsburgh. Well my fiancee and I have since moved to Ohio near her family and started working for her mom sort of business partners. We started looking for houses again since we both have steady income again. We found a 2 story house with a very nice yard and a very large 2 car garage. The house it self is about 1445 sq ft, has siding and a roof that are about 2-3 years old and a newer central AC unit and Furnace. The interior really needs to be redone and this is where my questions come in.
First of all the walls are all plaster. I'm pretty sure it needs some electrical updates and I'd love to run some networking and other audio/video stuff through the walls. So I concluded if I have to do all this and I hate plaster anyways then I may as well pull the plaster and work my way towards putting up drywall in most if not all of the house. I've been trying to sort of guesstimate as far as how much drywall I'd need to try and figure up some numbers before we go putting a bid on the house. I was thinking that 150 sheets of 4'x8' drywall might be enough. I do plan on doubling up the drywall in the living room where I have my hi-fi system with this sound deadening glue inbetween the 2 layers. Other then that it's a pretty straight forward install in the rest of the house. I know this isn't the ideal way to calculate but was curious what you guys thought.
We are super interested in the house because they are only asking $19,900 for it. The market over here is quite low but there is a house that is the same size but updated I'd say 10 years ago and is going for 65k. So with the newer exterior and the fact I might be able to get it for ~15k I think it's a good buy. Here are a few pics of the property.
![](http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c30/Dougie085/House/P1020175.jpg)
![](http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c30/Dougie085/House/P1020177.jpg)
![](http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c30/Dougie085/House/P1020178.jpg)
First of all the walls are all plaster. I'm pretty sure it needs some electrical updates and I'd love to run some networking and other audio/video stuff through the walls. So I concluded if I have to do all this and I hate plaster anyways then I may as well pull the plaster and work my way towards putting up drywall in most if not all of the house. I've been trying to sort of guesstimate as far as how much drywall I'd need to try and figure up some numbers before we go putting a bid on the house. I was thinking that 150 sheets of 4'x8' drywall might be enough. I do plan on doubling up the drywall in the living room where I have my hi-fi system with this sound deadening glue inbetween the 2 layers. Other then that it's a pretty straight forward install in the rest of the house. I know this isn't the ideal way to calculate but was curious what you guys thought.
We are super interested in the house because they are only asking $19,900 for it. The market over here is quite low but there is a house that is the same size but updated I'd say 10 years ago and is going for 65k. So with the newer exterior and the fact I might be able to get it for ~15k I think it's a good buy. Here are a few pics of the property.
![](http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c30/Dougie085/House/P1020175.jpg)
![](http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c30/Dougie085/House/P1020177.jpg)
![](http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c30/Dougie085/House/P1020178.jpg)
![](http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c30/Dougie085/House/P1020179.jpg)
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