1/15/2019

Demolition

Posted by with 1 comment | in
Who doesn't like pictures of renovations? Yes? No?

The majority of the demolition of our basement which was previously poorly finished was completed before the snow was flying.  Now that we have all of our final financing in place we were able to continue with some of the more...destructive demolition.

The first step is to prep for an interior weeping tile system.  We realized we were getting a bit of water wicking into the basement.  For a variety of reasons, we decided with our contractor that this system would be the most effective for our home.

So - to save on some costs, Jordan did the initial work to cut away the concrete and jackhammer where the system will go.  The two days of labor probably saved us at least $1,000...maybe more.  Next steps are to haul the concrete out, install the system, cover it back up with gravel & then pour fresh concrete.

So excited!

Also - so grateful for my mom.  We've stayed at her place for the last two days because of the noise, dust and exhaust. 



Related Posts:

  • DemolitionWho doesn't like pictures of renovations? Yes? No? The majority of the demolition of our basement which was previously poorly finished was completed before the snow was flying.  Now that we have all of our final finan… Read More
  • The Results are In Our home appraisal results are in! After the quoted renovations are completed, market value is estimated to be $425,000 - which is pretty much where we needed to be to get the full budget from the quote out of the equity … Read More
  • Renovations...are we done yet? Since we bought our home back in 2016 we've been taking on one renovation project at a time.  Before we moved in, we actually did a full kitchen and bathroom renovation on the main floor.  This past summer we did … Read More
  • Cabinets are in  Thanks to everyone who weight in on my cabinet handles request for help a few weeks back.  We decided to go with the handle pictured here.  WE LOVE IT!  It looks so good!  It's sold, you can get yo… Read More
  • Paint, paint, paint We're doing so much painting!  You know, after all the scrape, scrape, scraping. We're using General Paint primarily for our paint and paint supplies, with a few specialty items from Benjamin Moore from time to ti… Read More

1 comment:

  1. Live and Learn17 January 2019 at 06:37

    We're going to have a drainage system put into our basement, also. The jackhammering begins today. However, our basement was already finished by the previous owners, so we had to do a lot of destruction before we could get to the slab. Oh, boy. What fun.

    ReplyDelete

Hi! Thank you for stopping by and leaving a message.

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

Links ♥

Followers