Bonus Room Above Garage – 3 Challenges

Hey everyone Brian Olsen here. I am in Pleasant Grove at a new listing that is at 748 West 1116 North (PG). It’s a great location; this home is on a quiet street and it’s just a fantastic home.

A few things I want to just mention, well one thing I wanted to show you. The buyers, when they purchased this home, after they purchased it they took what was just a carport and they got a plan and they put in footing, foundation, everything that’s required and did a two-car garage oversized and then they did a bonus room.

Now three things that are always hard with the bonus room above the garage and this owner has done an exceptional job. You’ll love this when you come and see this home. One of the things is a transition; the owner took the garage and they made it an extra height in the garage and so there’s a transition going up into the bonus room. But versus being awkward or just not looking well they had these steps and it’s going up from the kitchen and just it really turned out nice.

So that’s one of the main things. The other thing is the exterior; the exterior is always tough to match the bonus room to the existing home, and you can look on my listing and see the outside. After they built this bonus room they redid all of the siding so it blends in perfectly.

Okay the third thing is in a bonus room is getting the temperature, to to be able to control the heating and cooling. What the owner did with this is they put a separate furnace and AC unit for this bonus room.

And so this bonus room is just awesome; you’ve got plenty of lighting and you’ve got LED can lights, you’ve got two fans; both of them have the lights on the fans, you’ve got two windows on this end, you’ve got another window on this end. And let me just show you these views here really quick, looking outside this window up in the mountains.

Anyway, give me a call, contact me, come and check out this home; it’s a great listing. Again Pleasant Grove is just a great place; it’s close to shopping, close to I-15, close to the mountains. Anyway, you will love this bonus room on this home. Talk to you soon.

Best Regards,
Brian Olsen – Utah Realtor
C: 801-318-3108

Basement Windows

Hey everyone, hope you’re doing well, hope you had a great week.

Just wanted to take a minute and talk to you about basements and windows in basements particularly. I’m up in salt lake in an older home right now and originally this home had smaller windows and lots of times they don’t let in a lot of light, and many people worry about being able to egress in case of a fire or emergency.

So a lot of people end up cutting the concrete foundation and putting in a bigger window.

A couple things you want to check, I’m not a contractor but you want to look at if you can cut into the concrete and what implications there are.

Uniform Building Code says that windows in basements need to be 5.7 square feet to be a legal window that someone can escape out of.

Anyway it will depend on where you live if, you’re in the county, city, if they just go with the uniform building code or they have more strict requirements.

I love this home because they got these windows cut out and put in some nice windows that provide lots more light and a lot more comfort in the basement of this older home.

If you want to do that you can go out and rent saws, do it yourself, or you can hire a contractor. You’re probably going to be about 2-4 thousand dollars depending how far below grade and all that will entail as far as moving the earth and such.

Basements are awesome and having lots of light in basements are awesome!

If you have any questions about building code in your area and what you can or can’t do give me a call I’d love to help you.

Take care!
Brian
Wallsburg World Realtor

Basement Windows

Hey everyone, hope you’re doing well, hope you had a great week.

Just wanted to take a minute and talk to you about basements and windows in basements particularly. I’m up in salt lake in an older home right now and originally this home had smaller windows and lots of times they don’t let in a lot of light, and many people worry about being able to egress in case of a fire or emergency.

So a lot of people end up cutting the concrete foundation and putting in a bigger window.

A couple things you want to check, I’m not a contractor but you want to look at if you can cut into the concrete and what implications there are.

Uniform Building Code says that windows in basements need to be 5.7 square feet to be a legal window that someone can escape out of.

Anyway it will depend on where you live if, you’re in the county, city, if they just go with the uniform building code or they have more strict requirements.

I love this home because they got these windows cut out and put in some nice windows that provide lots more light and a lot more comfort in the basement of this older home.

If you want to do that you can go out and rent saws, do it yourself, or you can hire a contractor. You’re probably going to be about 2-4 thousand dollars depending how far below grade and all that will entail as far as moving the earth and such.

Basements are awesome and having lots of light in basements are awesome!

If you have any questions about building code in your area and what you can or can’t do give me a call I’d love to help you.

Take care!
Brian
Wallsburg World Realtor