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DoorsAllow enough in your budget to install heavy, new, beautiful front and back exterior doors on your flip. Have the doors installed by a carpenter that can do a perfect job. Everyone who visits the house will go through one or both of these doors. Make sure that if they open or close them, they get a good feeling.Just like a car, if a door does not shut properly you feel there is something wrong with the car. So to with a house.Interior doors can cost less. But they should never be the hollow core type which cost less than $20. Installation of a $100 interior door will be the same as the cost for a $20 door. It is much better to have great doors than cheap doors.Avoid replacing doors that work properly just because they are original or old. If a door works properly, and the hardware is functional, then try to keep it.Bifold closet doors are the pitts. They always seem to stick. They never close just right. And they are very difficult to paint. So where ever possible, try to install ordinary doors on a closet rather than bifolds. Oh, and the morrired bifolds are even worse. They are heavy and difficult to get to work perfectly. I don't think I ever operated a mirrored bifold door that felt right. Plus they can break.Carpet installers do not like them, either. And painters go nuts with bifold doors. Look for your painter labor charges to go up when bifold doors are installed on the job.A cleaner job will be with an ordinary 36" vented half louvered closet door than with any bifold door ever made. The carpenter will be pleased. The painter will be happy. The carpet installer will be happy. And you will make more money on the flip.Every house can not be flipped by every person for a profit every time.
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Prepared 2006-2011 David Ullian Larson
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