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 npcph |
So I haven’t been around much in the past 3 weeks. This is my current wip. My kitchen was fugly and after 12 years of being in my house, I thought it was time to remodel it. So I’m taking the entire thing down to studs and redoing everything. Some of the things I’m doing are removing a wall between the kitchen and dining room. Removing the crap ass closet in the kitchen that was no more then a PITA because of it’s size. I’m redoing all of the electrical so I can have more then 1 outlet and not have to worry about the old knob and tube wiring being bad. Redoing all of the plumbing since after 60 years is so clogged up, it barely drains. All new dry wall with a smooth finish and NO texturing or wall paper liner. Remove the soffits to open up the ceiling and make it feel more open. All the cabinets were in my brother’s house for only 2 years when he had all new custom cabinets installed, so I’m stripping them down and refinishing them. I’m going to make all new drawer boxes and then I’m going to buy all new drawer fronts, doors and hardware. So they will be almost brand new for a fraction of the cost. We priced out buying new cabinets and they were going to be about $7000. this will be about $1000 on the high end. With that said, here is how it’s going so far:
Before demo:
Kitchen
This is the wall coming down between the kitchen and dining room
The dining room
Day 1 of Demo
Finally the wall is removed.
Now the ceiling has to come down
We had insulation blown into our attic and now it all comes down like a snow in October. We bagged it up as much as possible and are going to dump it back in once we are done. We have (8) 45 gallon bags and about (20) 13 gallon bags.
Now for the soffit. I removed this side pretty easily. Just smashed it with a sledge hammer. The next side, which I wish I would have taken a picture of, was the PITA. I swung the sledge hammer and it bounces off the soffit. So I swing it again but the same thing happens. So I climb up on the ladder and try to reach around it and the ends are closed. So take my crowbar and spend about 30 minutes hitting it until it finally makes a dent. For some reason, they made this soffit from ¾ inch ply wood wrapped around a 2x4 frame. They then covered it with 2 layers of drywall and then to really cap it off, they layered on ¾ of an inch of some kind of plaster that was as hard as a rock but when it finally broke, it shattered like porcelain. It took me 3 hours to get it down and weighed atleast 200 lbs.
now were are down to studs and ready to start on the electrical.
the next update will include the electrical and insulation in the walls. Hopefully we will be able to have the new drywall up this weekend.
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10/21/2010 5:25:29 PM (last edit: 10/21/2010 5:25:29 PM)
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| Westcoast13 |
Nice project mate!! I love a good bit of DIY myself! In fact i'd like to get into that line of work but lack the knowledge and guts to do it!!
We've recently done a fair bit of work at my house to accomodate our new arrival and it's a good feeling when its all completed.
Good luck with it all mate.
No renders of the final kitchen then? :)
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10/21/2010 5:34:49 PM (last edit: 10/21/2010 5:34:49 PM)
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| npcph |
no final renders. haven't had the time to really work with MAX between this and i also had to have my basement wall replaced because it cracked from one end to the other. with the crack came a leak and basically had water in the basement all the time. Then to top it off, i had a hard drive fail on my laptop so i had to reload everything. Just got it all done and trying to get caught up with work stuff as well as the kitchen. We've had the cabinets for 3 years and kept putting off the remodel, but when they jacked up the house to take the pressure off the basement wall, the walls cracked in the kitchen (which i knew would happen). so i took that as a sign to start the remodel. i should have finished the cabinets before demoing the kitchen, but I kept saying i'll do it later. now i have no choice but to do it.
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10/21/2010 5:49:47 PM (last edit: 10/21/2010 5:49:47 PM)
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| STRAT |
what a mess!
i've got the builders surrounding my house right this minute replacing the roof and wall render and new double glazing. it's a nightmare trying to work i tells ya.
i hate d.i.y. absolutely loath it. i'd much prefer to get a chap in to do it.
but, all credit to you. keep us updated with progress shots!
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10/21/2010 5:50:33 PM (last edit: 10/21/2010 5:50:33 PM)
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| owtdor |
That looks like a lot of fun. I don't have anything like that going on since I moved into a newly built house in June. The other house we own and are renting has a fair amount of my work in it including a room addition.
It is a process that brings great satisfaction when complete. I hope all goes well and you hit no snags.
Be sure that you get everything you can think of into the walls BEFORE you close them in.
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10/21/2010 5:56:15 PM (last edit: 10/21/2010 5:56:15 PM)
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| npcph |
i love DIY projects personally. being able to see it come together and in the end knowing that I was able to do it makes the hard work worth it. Plus the fact that i'm doing this whol project with a budget of $3000 and it would have cost me about $20,000 to have someone else do it is another deciding factor. I had an electrician quote me to do the electrical and he wanted $1500. I spent about $400 and was able to make some changes as i went. the electrician is going to charge me $40 to come in and inspect everything to make sure it's up to code and safe. so i was able to do it for 1/3 the price.
The main down side is how it's going to take me a lot longer then it would have for a pro. I'm working on weekends and at night. so they would have had it done in a week and i'm going to take 4-5 weeks. So right now we have the microwave on a hutch in the living room next to the tv and the fridge on the other side of the tv. We've been surviving on bbq food, crockpot dinners and eating out.
EDIT Owtdor, i agree about the walls. I even prewired for future lights i'm going to put on the outside of the sliding glass doors next summer. i have the switch box in and the wires run to where they are going to be on the outside (with plenty of extra wire). all i will have to do is cut the holes on the outside and connect in the junction box in the wall.
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10/21/2010 6:02:11 PM (last edit: 10/21/2010 6:05:18 PM)
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| npcph |
Made some progress and thought i would share. We are going to be drywalling the walls, but a big storm is coming through so gonna wait to do the walls till tomorrow.
Electrical work being done
New electrical and insullation
new ceiling
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10/26/2010 9:12:12 PM (last edit: 10/26/2010 9:12:12 PM)
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| 9krausec |
It looks so real. I love the noise filter you put over everything (really adds to the realism).
Could you post a wire?
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10/27/2010 7:31:23 PM (last edit: 10/27/2010 7:31:23 PM)
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| owtdor |
Didn't he post a wire? I see electrical wiring in some of the shots!
Be sure you make a map of the locations of the wires and pipes in the walls. This way you don't nail into one, as well as making it easier to find them if you need to tap into them again in the future.
I do see the nail protection plates over the studs in front of the wires - good idea.
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10/27/2010 7:58:36 PM (last edit: 10/27/2010 8:00:48 PM)
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| npcph |
I learned about the nail plates the hard way. when i remodeled my bathroom, i was putting in the finishing touches and using my drill to hang a shelf in the closet behind the shower end of the tub. I was all done with everything except the shelves. so i drill and everything went up great. until the next morning when i went to take a shower. my wife comes in screaming that water is pouring into the basement. so i get out and go look for the leak. I can't find the leak anywhere and until later i realize that the one screw that i put into the middle of the closet wall went right through the copper pipe that goes to the shower head. I had to take the wall apart to fix it. what a pain in the ass and 5 more days of work between the new drywall, mudding and painting all because of one little screw. Just for $hit and giggles, i layed a piece of copper pipe on the ground and tried to drill another screw threw it and it took me 12 trys to get the screw in the right spot to go into the pipe. What are the chances that i would have hit that exact spot through a wall.
mind boggling.
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10/27/2010 8:23:53 PM (last edit: 10/27/2010 8:23:53 PM)
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| npcph |
small update
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10/29/2010 4:17:29 PM (last edit: 10/29/2010 4:17:29 PM)
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| owtdor |
Looking great. What are your plans for the floor? Is there asbestos in those tiles?
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10/29/2010 6:43:12 PM (last edit: 10/29/2010 6:43:12 PM)
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| Jock |
Whats with the dumpy level?
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10/30/2010 12:33:07 AM (last edit: 10/30/2010 12:33:07 AM)
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| npcph |
it's been a while since i updated so here goes:
Drywall mudded
Getting Primed
My helpers getting the low spots
After about 100 trips between home depot and lowes she finally picked the paint colors. If you ask her, it's toffey and turtle sage. if you ask me it's yellow and green
We ended up buying new cabinets. the old ones were in worse shape then i thought. And on top of that, when we started to line them up, the builder installed 2 different style cabinets. he was able to hide the difference by putting one style on one side of the kitchen and the other on the other side. Differencese weren't huge, but once you started to put them together and mixed the two styles, it looked like crap. so we bought new ones. a friend of mine is a contractor so he got me a contractors discount which was nice.
I found an issue with the floor, so i have to remove the based cabinets, pull up the cement board and put plywood under it. then put the cement board back down. should only be a 3 hour project but the wifey is pissed about it. my fault and i'm doing the work so not a big deal.
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12/8/2010 5:45:06 PM (last edit: 12/8/2010 5:45:06 PM)
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| owtdor |
Looking VERY nice compared to what you started with.
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12/8/2010 5:53:09 PM (last edit: 12/8/2010 5:53:09 PM)
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