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🏡 Better Homes Brag / Complain About a DIY Project Thread
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I'm not sure you're quite getting the spirit of this thread. Maybe re read the first post?
I found a few pictures from the start of my parents place... it's an ongoing project that I'm doing with my Dad on the weekends so it's taking a little while to finish....
First was to gut the old job that was done poorly to turn it back into the concrete floor and walls of a garage:
mapping out where to put the bathroom fixtures:
Get to work with a jackhammer and some shovels:
Plumbing roughed in:
After that, I poured new concrete over the exposed area, and after giving it time to cure we hired out a company to come and self level the entire previous garage floor (it has a slope to it that used to be evident in the old rec-room) to make it 1.75" lower then the rest of the basement floor.
Once that all dried, we went over the top of the now level floor with 1" rigid foam boards (you get really sick of seeing pink panthers BTW):
Then you spray foam the edges, and tape all seams, and drop 3/4" subfloor on top of that going opposite directions to stagger seams:
After a bunch of tapcon screws and a few hours on your hands and knees you get an insulated, level floor thats the same height as the rest of the basement:
You can also see in the last picture we junked their fuse box for a huge 200A breaker panel.
First was to gut the old job that was done poorly to turn it back into the concrete floor and walls of a garage:
mapping out where to put the bathroom fixtures:
Get to work with a jackhammer and some shovels:
Plumbing roughed in:
After that, I poured new concrete over the exposed area, and after giving it time to cure we hired out a company to come and self level the entire previous garage floor (it has a slope to it that used to be evident in the old rec-room) to make it 1.75" lower then the rest of the basement floor.
Once that all dried, we went over the top of the now level floor with 1" rigid foam boards (you get really sick of seeing pink panthers BTW):
Then you spray foam the edges, and tape all seams, and drop 3/4" subfloor on top of that going opposite directions to stagger seams:
After a bunch of tapcon screws and a few hours on your hands and knees you get an insulated, level floor thats the same height as the rest of the basement:
You can also see in the last picture we junked their fuse box for a huge 200A breaker panel.
I rehabbed my entire house from bare studs out. Could post pics of that but the other guys are taking care of the home DIY angle. Today I'm cooking and thought some of you might like seeing how a pork shoulder is rubbed, injected and cooked low and slow. :wink:
still needs work but I saved hundreds.
ok ok I also did the hard wood months earlier:
to:
how hard of a job was this? i also need to do this job but am nervous about it...also, if you dont mind me asking, about how much did it cost you to do? i have 2 medium sized rooms and a hallway that need refinished.
Grabbed the 6' level and the framing nailer and got to work:
Trying out the panoramic setting on the phone.... all exterior walls framed, conduit run, etc. as well as spray foam on the wall where the garage door used to be:
Spray the rest of the exterior walls (walls were framed 1/2" away from the concrete so the foam would get behind it and act as a thermal break as well):
Started framing the bulkhead for the HVAC and took another panoramic:
figuring out the recessed light placement and also ran internet, telephone, tv, and satellite up to the upstairs bedrooms. You can see the large orange flexible conduit headed upstairs:
insulation trimmed down where it comes out past the studs:
Trying out the panoramic setting on the phone.... all exterior walls framed, conduit run, etc. as well as spray foam on the wall where the garage door used to be:
Spray the rest of the exterior walls (walls were framed 1/2" away from the concrete so the foam would get behind it and act as a thermal break as well):
Started framing the bulkhead for the HVAC and took another panoramic:
figuring out the recessed light placement and also ran internet, telephone, tv, and satellite up to the upstairs bedrooms. You can see the large orange flexible conduit headed upstairs:
insulation trimmed down where it comes out past the studs:
Finished framing the bulkhead and the other interior wall between the recroom and the laundry room (the next project of course):
All the lights, exhaust fan, water lines, etc. for the bathroom are done:
That's about it right now. Got to finish running the 1" copper that was started in the last picture for the spa shower non-sense, and then I'm about ready to sheetrock the entire basement.
All the lights, exhaust fan, water lines, etc. for the bathroom are done:
That's about it right now. Got to finish running the 1" copper that was started in the last picture for the spa shower non-sense, and then I'm about ready to sheetrock the entire basement.
Ok let me put it this way.... I had 1,200 square footage of hardwood in THE most decrepit hardwood I have seen in awhile. Had a company come by and after a lot of head scratching, he came up with a figure right around 2k to sand, prep, stain and seal the floor.
Being a poor college kid, I sacked up, got some buddies together and we rented three floor sanders from menards and went at it. .... if God designated me to live until 80, I knocked off 2 yrs in dust inhalation ( two full size kitchen trash cans full of saw dust), and stain fume inhalation.
All in all its a messy, VERY labor intensive job, but can be accomplished with patience and dedication to save cash. Money wise, the sandpaper pads burn out quite fast and there are three on each machine so I spent a good $100 on those, machine rental was around $150 ish for three machines for 4 hour cracks, stain was 100 bucks, lacquer, brushes, etc etc.... I wanna guess $500 ish total. Only con is you wont feel your arms for days, boogers and lungs are coated with wood particulates, stain fumes will make you hallucinate, but all in all the $1,500 I saved made it all worth it
Also, same house. redid the kitchen.
pics of the before..
After:
So glad you ditched the bulkhead..... So much nicer with full length upper cabinets...
I felt bad doing this to their rental machines, but I had my buddy actually stand on the machine to provide more cutting power....it was quite a task
It looks like they were wearing disposable ones in the pictures.... When doing floor sanding though I would spend more on the nicer ones with the replaceable cartridges.
A guy I know who specializes in floor refinishing stressed this to me awhile back. Don't know the exact model he uses for his business but it would be a wise investment I would think....
Forgot to add, if anyone is thinking about doing their own spray foam insulation, I got my kits from sprayfoamdirect.com and they end up saving you some money.
I think when I had it quoted it was $750 more to have it done then the DIY kits, and it took me about an hour of spraying to do all the walls, so I decided it was worth it to do it myself.
I think when I had it quoted it was $750 more to have it done then the DIY kits, and it took me about an hour of spraying to do all the walls, so I decided it was worth it to do it myself.
Like my man answered above, we should have opted for nicer masks, as we just had $7 3M fine particulate masks on.
As an aside, would anyone be willing to give me a hand with a deck. Its in really poor shape and would make it almost a party supplied with a keg and brats. It will take me forever solo...Had to cut a hole in it to fix a broken well pipe so its already to all come down
Here's the finished results for today's "DIY" project. Turned out well, as usual. Living in Florida, it's controversial to use a Kansas City BBQ sauce but, too bad. Being from Chicago, we like sweet and spicy.
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Like my man answered above, we should have opted for nicer masks, as we just had $7 3M fine particulate masks on.
As an aside, would anyone be willing to give me a hand with a deck. Its in really poor shape and would make it almost a party supplied with a keg and brats. It will take me forever solo...Had to cut a hole in it to fix a broken well pipe so its already to all come down
Lol I was just giving you shit man.
As for your deck, I'm not sure where you live and if it's legal or not but I think it'd be pretty convenient to add a bonfire to the beer and brats
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