doccrowley Posted September 14, 2013 Share Posted September 14, 2013 Cabinets and counters were professionally installed. I did the rest: removal of 2 walls, down to the bare studs and floor boards, a-z, all of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
km580 Posted September 14, 2013 Share Posted September 14, 2013 Can you hit 3rd gear on it now? :lol: Fat people are hard to kidnap!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
el5y Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 Some progress on the patio...haven't had much time since starting my new job.. :-/ Also added a film to the glass on the front door for some privacy and style points Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
el5y Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 nice work doccrowley! boxkita - After all the work we did on this house, our next one we've decided won't require work right away and we'll do things at our own pace. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boxkita Posted September 17, 2013 Share Posted September 17, 2013 nice work doccrowley! boxkita - After all the work we did on this house, our next one we've decided won't require work right away and we'll do things at our own pace. we've been idly talking about selling the current one and building/buying another one. My wife has some strongly held opinions about living in while remodeling concept. Well, she does now. We've compromised on buying a lot or a tear down and hiring an architect. That was 8 years and 4 remodeling projects ago, still in the same house. Build my car Boxkita Track days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
el5y Posted September 17, 2013 Share Posted September 17, 2013 LOL When we bought our house we had 2 months to make it liveable before our lease was up on our apartment. Little did we know it would be so close that the countertops got installed the day after we moved in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
el5y Posted September 17, 2013 Share Posted September 17, 2013 Dodik - Nice work man, its crazy how much having a kid puts a damper on the renovation process. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodik Posted September 17, 2013 Share Posted September 17, 2013 Thanks man, my son definitely has priority over anything. and yeah my coop has crazy constraints like work to be done 9-5 m-f only no saturday work at all not even painting. So most of the work i do/did is by hand so as not to make any noise and let my old upstairs neighbor who got nothing else to do but complain that im actually working, plus not waking my son up. Most of the tile has been done 1hr per day after work i have a window between 7-8 so lay a couple courses then clean up, give my son a bath, put him to bed then on to regular crap like dinner etc. On weekend i just blast music so they dont hear my drill or pull saw going. Only floors and base trim went in on couple days i took off work during normal business hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baconbits Posted September 20, 2013 Share Posted September 20, 2013 Going to tag this thread for future reference... I'm currently in the process of buying a house and I'm going to attempt to do most of the remodeling myself. Hopefully I'll remember some pictures of the awful/before because this house is stuck in the 70s and early 80s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boxkita Posted September 20, 2013 Share Posted September 20, 2013 Going to tag this thread for future reference... I'm currently in the process of buying a house and I'm going to attempt to do most of the remodeling myself. Hopefully I'll remember some pictures of the awful/before because this house is stuck in the 70s and early 80s. if you ever saw the home improvement sitcom, that's about what home remodeling is like. You buy lots of tools and take forever to get it done, while explaining to your wife that you'll get it right this time. Usual excess is planned at 10%, I always figured mine at 50%, to save on trips. Build my car Boxkita Track days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baconbits Posted September 20, 2013 Share Posted September 20, 2013 Funny you say that. My neighbor and I (I'm 26, he's 37) have Tim Allen/Wilson conversations about home remodeling at our chain link fence a couple nights a week. Talk of joining our attics with rope bridges, garages with tunnels, etc... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkeylord Posted September 20, 2013 Share Posted September 20, 2013 Just found this thread, cool stuff... I just did this the other night. Dishwasher drain used to be plumbed with twice-kinked 1" vinyl hose, sketchily hose-clamped to 3/4" vinyl hose that ran all along the floor joists. Now plumbed 1-1/2 PVC to a proper piece of rubber discharge hose. http://i.imgur.com/Qje9sEDl.jpg http://i.imgur.com/esdZbkMl.jpg http://i.imgur.com/cr1XAEPl.jpg About a month ago my father-in-law and I poured me a new sidewalk. Used to be a combo of 2' wide concrete and paver blocks. http://i.imgur.com/SKvKHwDl.jpg http://i.imgur.com/CHL8514l.jpg http://i.imgur.com/SLJxcMml.jpg Also used to be two steps into the house and one into the garage... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baconbits Posted September 20, 2013 Share Posted September 20, 2013 Expansion joints? My kitchen plumbing will need some work but I think it'll be good until I get to remodeling the kitchen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkeylord Posted September 20, 2013 Share Posted September 20, 2013 Expansion board to the house and garage, we saw cut them into the sidewalk after it had cured. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boxkita Posted September 20, 2013 Share Posted September 20, 2013 About a month ago my father-in-law and I poured me a new sidewalk. Used to be a combo of 2' wide concrete and paver blocks. http://i.imgur.com/SKvKHwDl.jpg http://i.imgur.com/CHL8514l.jpg http://i.imgur.com/SLJxcMml.jpg Also used to be two steps into the house and one into the garage... Fail :-) You should have filled in the space between the house & garage, so no steps would be required. That way, you could have used a rototiller, shovel, backhoe/bulldozer. With those tools, you surely would have hit a pipe or two, too. Every project should be expanded to use the max number of new and/or destructive tools possible. Otherwise it looks like you know what you are doing. Like the radius-ed corners. nice job. Build my car Boxkita Track days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkeylord Posted September 20, 2013 Share Posted September 20, 2013 Fail :-) You should have filled in the space between the house & garage, so no steps would be required. That way, you could have used a rototiller, shovel, backhoe/bulldozer. With those tools, you surely would have hit a pipe or two, too. Every project should be expanded to use the max number of new and/or destructive tools possible. Otherwise it looks like you know what you are doing. Like the radius-ed corners. nice job. We did use a mini-excavator, skid steer, and power skreed if that counts. The power skreed is actually an invention of my neighbor and his brother, pretty cool. http://i.imgur.com/SOtJa5Cl.jpg http://www.luraconcretescreed.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boxkita Posted September 20, 2013 Share Posted September 20, 2013 ^^^ nice. Build my car Boxkita Track days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ehsnils Posted September 21, 2013 Share Posted September 21, 2013 The power skreed is actually an invention of my neighbor and his brother, pretty cool. http://i.imgur.com/SOtJa5Cl.jpg http://www.luraconcretescreed.com/ Explains why I haven't seen one before. Good idea anyway! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baconbits Posted September 21, 2013 Share Posted September 21, 2013 Just realized the floor under the peel-and-stick linoleum tiles in the basement is cracked... there goes my plans of ceramic tile. I guess Nature Stone is my only option at this point. F... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators BarManBean Posted September 21, 2013 Moderators Share Posted September 21, 2013 Just realized the floor under the peel-and-stick linoleum tiles in the basement is cracked... there goes my plans of ceramic tile. I guess Nature Stone is my only option at this point. F... How bad is it cracked? "Bullet-proof" your OEM TMIC! <<Buy your kit here>> Not currently in stock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StoplightAssassin Posted September 21, 2013 Share Posted September 21, 2013 I've done a bunch of relatively inexpensive stuff around my house. My kitchen mini-project turned out pretty well considering it only cost about $400 worth of materials. The countertops are one of those rustoleum granite transformation kits. I put a thick UV resistant epoxy coating on the top, which is why it's so glossy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators BarManBean Posted September 21, 2013 Moderators Share Posted September 21, 2013 That looks great man. We need a bit of a kitchen refresh but don't want to put too much money into it since we'll likely redo it in the next 5yrs or so--I've been eying some of the rustoleum stuff, looks like a great budget-friendly option to change things up a bit. "Bullet-proof" your OEM TMIC! <<Buy your kit here>> Not currently in stock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StoplightAssassin Posted September 21, 2013 Share Posted September 21, 2013 Here's the bar I built last summer. The finished wood is all oak with maple trim. The foot rail is galvanized piping from Home Depot. I used some Wurth's silver on it to give it a great shine. The top is a sheet of aluminium that I sanded to give it that brushed look. Then I poured epoxy over it to protect it. This is the bar I built for my brother-in-law. He wanted a "classy rustic" look. The finished wood is mostly oak with maple trim. The front is actually just sandply. The top is oak flooring. I did a blow torch finish up top with a bunch of coats of poly. The foot rail is 1 inch galvanized piping. There's a color changing led lighting kit under the rail. You can kinda see the red glow under the front in this pic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StoplightAssassin Posted September 21, 2013 Share Posted September 21, 2013 That looks great man. We need a bit of a kitchen refresh but don't want to put too much money into it since we'll likely redo it in the next 5yrs or so--I've been eying some of the rustoleum stuff, looks like a great budget-friendly option to change things up a bit. The Rustoleum kit on its own is ok. It is ridiculously messy to apply the color chips and it requires a lot of sanding. The top coating it comes with is not all that thick and nowhere near as glossy as how it finished. We weren't too happy with how it turned out before I bought the additional epoxy. I don't think the Rustoleum kit by itself would last more than a few years without the additional epoxy coating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baconbits Posted September 21, 2013 Share Posted September 21, 2013 How bad is it cracked? I haven't pulled up any of the linoleum but you can tell it's bent pretty good from the cracking underneath. Threw a small torpedo level on it and it doesn't look pretty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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