Audit the books

The episode where the couple liked enclosed rooms for private discussion, and the hardwood floors were good, so all of the original walls and floors were kept, exterior not touched... $200,000 for bathroom and kitchen interiors?

Where did the money go?

It seems each $200,000 renovation budget is not connected with reality.

Some people receive new exterior landscaping, new windows, walls and floors, while others do not.

Also, in many episodes the age of the house is not mentioned. This must be because any amature starting to budget the renovation needs for a house built in 1911 would expect a longer checklist than if renovating a house built in 1999.

1911, I would be expecting to find old water damage underneath old plumbing pipes with wood needing to be replaced, and would expect to also replace heat, insolation, pipes, wiring & firm up foundation, re-level floor joists and expect insect damage hiding under add-on siding.

For a house built in 1999 I would not be expecting to replace everything inside the walls and under the floors.

And in any house, when there is a bathroom above a kitchen, I would expect to find water pipes, waste pipes, and wires inside one or two kitchen walls.

But when the Property Brothers renovate a 1911 house, heat, electricity, plumbing, foundation, floor joists, wood rot... none of the old house problems are said to be in the budget.

What? How is the budget being created?



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