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finishing basement cost?

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aliwnec10
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finishing basement cost?

if you don't mind sharing, how much did it cost for you to finish your basement? and what did you do to it? how big?

TIA! Just trying to figure out how much to save.

Posted 1/31/13 8:45 PM
 
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blustar214
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Re: finishing basement cost?

Are you looking to do the work yourself or hire a company?

How 'finished' is your basement right now and what are you looking to add?

Posted 1/31/13 11:06 PM
 

aliwnec10
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Re: finishing basement cost?

Posted by blustar214

Are you looking to do the work yourself or hire a company?

How 'finished' is your basement right now and what are you looking to add?



it's just a basement. Chat Icon Not at all finished. just a block of cement with all of our sh*t in it. Chat Icon

I'd like to maybe make a playroom, storage closets, maybe another room.

Posted 2/1/13 6:57 AM
 

limomof2
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Re: finishing basement cost?

My girlfriend spent $10,000. It was just concrete and she now has a large room, closets, crown molding (this included everything including the carpet). It is beautiful. We are doing ours ourselves. It is taking FOREVER but will be 1/2 the cost (if that).

Message edited 2/1/2013 8:50:55 AM.

Posted 2/1/13 8:50 AM
 

JDubs
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Re: finishing basement cost?

I have a small basement and I got quotes from 16k - 28k. It was crazy. I had my dad and uncle help out with some of the work and just brought in guys to sheetrock and put in carpet, saved us a lot of money.

Posted 2/1/13 9:29 AM
 

JennZ
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Re: finishing basement cost?

Fil quoted us around $10,000.
It is technically finished now, not my kind of finished, but finished.
Currently there are 2 bedrooms, a living room, full bath and kitchenette. We are going to combine the two bedrooms into one large room for dh drums, and ds toys. Half of the one bedrooms will be turned into shelving storage for all my totes. Closet doors around washer and dryer. The living room will be redone, and the kitchenette will be redone, the bathroom currently is jacked. That will get ripped out completely and redone. I just want tons of hidden storage.

Posted 2/1/13 9:46 AM
 

Jenhos
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Re: finishing basement cost?

9,500 added closets and a 1/2 bath and new windows.

Posted 2/1/13 1:29 PM
 

Irishgrl13
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Re: finishing basement cost?

We used a company called "the basement store"....they had this deal where it was $9999 for 999 square feet. Our basement was about 1100 square feet so the price was adjusted accordingly. We added a full bath (The cost included one of those pre-fab 1/2 showers, toilet and sink) but we customized so that added some $$.... We built a work room, media area, spare bedroom and a walk in pantry.... Soup to nuts with them it was about 20K... They don't include flooring of any kind so it was an additional 3K or so for carpet/wood...

I can see if I can get you their # if you are interested....they had to change their name, but we use one of the guys as a handyman now and he is coming over tomorrow to fix a couple of things...

I would definitely recommend them....

Posted 2/1/13 1:43 PM
 

Lucky09
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Re: finishing basement cost?

About $14,000 and that was with DH and his friend (who we paid for his labor) doing most of the work themselves. We had his friend's dad help with the full bathroom we added. We did a playroom, ping pong / man room Chat Icon, and full bathroom that is bigger than my master bath.

We left one area unfinished and that holds all of our storage.

eta: the finished area is probably about 900 sq ft.

Message edited 2/2/2013 4:42:40 PM.

Posted 2/2/13 4:41 PM
 

guyinblue
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Re: finishing basement cost?

If you have 1,000 sf or less, and don't add a bathroom, you can expect to pay around 10K. Obviously, adding in a bathroom will cost more. Lots of companies/contractors out there looking for work, so get estimates to make a reasonable comparison. Good luck!

Posted 2/4/13 1:50 PM
 

blustar214
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Re: finishing basement cost?

We were just quoted a price of $27,750 to finish a basement that is about 900-1,000 square feet.

This included adding a bathroom and an egress window, but did not include bathroom fixtures or flooring.

Message edited 2/4/2013 2:21:23 PM.

Posted 2/4/13 2:20 PM
 

aliwnec10
mom of 3 boys

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Ali

Re: finishing basement cost?

Posted by guyinblue

If you have 1,000 sf or less, and don't add a bathroom, you can expect to pay around 10K. Obviously, adding in a bathroom will cost more. Lots of companies/contractors out there looking for work, so get estimates to make a reasonable comparison. Good luck!



yeah we don't need a bathroom down there. Just a nice big playroom/living room, a big storage closet and maybe one other 'man' room or something.

our sq footage down there is 1200 i believe. 9 foot ceilings.

Posted 2/4/13 3:13 PM
 
 

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