Home Improvement

They are. It pained me to do it but I had to hire an engineer to make actual blueprints based on my highly technical design doc, attached previously. They submitted it to the city for approval and permits and I saw them working and they actually had the plans printed out on one of those giant sheets of architect paper and were consulting it. So I guess money well spent.

This is just wrong. I've literally gutted my entire basement. Working through and decided to strip the steps. Can believe people put vinyl over these.

Vinyl floors and wall paper... uhg. First house we bought had shitty carpet all over. Pulled it up to find the original wood floor. We were on the cheep at the time so we just cleaned it, but later we went back on refinished. Was a nice feature when we sold.

We pulled up some "vinyl" tile once. Ended up being asbestos.

the whole basement floor had asbetos tile! hah. I tore them up already. I have a large basement too. the main room is 20X20 but there is a large laundry area too. Some of the work I've done. Not just all me, have a friend helping.





















Working towards this.. Already gutted bathroom. Need to run new pex and electric in bathroom and laundry room but you can see the naughty tile on the bathroom floor, it's all up now.

I would love to take credit for the mudding but my friend is actually handling that! He's been doing it for years and is killer at it. It's amazing how well he did my ceiling.

Bathroom is already down to studs so now it's just a matter of bringing it in. Currently the copper runs from that laundry room into the bathroom via the ceiling. It's already open so I'm just going to gut it all and start from the main and work in. I need to run it to my laundry sink and out to the garage as well. I did the same in my basement room and ran it outside with a new hose bib and shutoff. I love how easy pex is to work with.

Also, I ran extra wire the length of my basement so I'm going to be pulling that down and dropping in some GFI's in bathroom and laundry room.

I have a problem wall in laundry room I'm still trying to figure out how I want to tackle. If you look at that last pic, that back wall there is taking moisture. I'm leaning towards a waterproof membrane then I can tie into my french drain then some metal anchors that I can attach to wall and green board over. The door is right there so I can't stud it out. I have like an inch or 2 to work with but pretty sure I can tuck the rock into the corner between wall and door. But open to any suggestions. been researching that a lot.

Picasso3 said:

Is it a window well on the moisture wall?

I thought the bathroom was all block

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The moisture wall is the wall you see with the window. Right below the window the wall is bacially underground from there down.

Nah just the one wall is concrete. I'll have to get another pic of it now. I actually left the toilet and sink for now because I didn't want to drag dirt upstairs.

The problem with the moisture wall is runnoff from outside. I plan to address that but basically the wall is half in the ground outside and the water runs off the roof and seeps into the ground then wall. I'm going to dig it down and put that black rubber on it then a drainage system but not till spring so want to address inside now. That Basement took water in a few areas. It's been great since I had it waterproofed tho. But it's a big reason I went with metal studs as well.

pic of bathroom now. ceiling and other wall are down to stud. Just have that last section to rip out. waiting till i actually being in there.

Soygen said:

Please stop basement shaming me. Some of us can't have basements!

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wait till it's done! I can't wait to show it off lol

Picasso3 said:

Fixing it from the outside is exactly what I'd do and I'd try to set it up so I wouldn't cover it inside until confident it's fixed. It also seems pretty separate so no push to get it done?

Bathroom wall opening up is great, that's some heavy duty looking plaster. Are you going to try to redo drains? Uber will get upset over that s trap, with the wall open you may be able to at least put in an aav somewhere.

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Yea, no real push to get it done and If I do, it will be something that isn't touching the wall then repairing outside as soon as weather permits. I'll have to see how I feel once i get in there since I tend to not want to stop.

The plaster has been ridiculous. The entire basement has been brutal demoing. It's all heavy duty and secured to ceiling and corners with chicken wire, nails and mortar. I'm so glad that's behind me. I'd like to redo drains but that's something I'll need to ask a plumber friend to look at. I'd rather not do it myself but I hate skipping shit, especially when it's open and ready to be worked.

Another thing I need to look into is the landing for my steps. I'm going to sand and stain the rest of them but I'm not sure the landing is going to come out right, I'd rather have one big piece.

Frames finished with the siding yesterday. The roof goes on tomorrow.