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My oldest son bought his 1st house about 3 years. Like any 80 year old homes in need work. For the most part he has done a good job at fixing the place up and he is just about done except the kitchen. So tomorrow bright, and early we will start to gut the old one out. OI know that we have a floor issue a 6in drop from the door opening to the far corner and who knows what we will find in the walls. So here is the first pic of the truck getting loaded up. I will post more as we go but I think about taking the picture when I done.
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Awesome! Project threads make me happy, lol.
Sounds like an awesome project. He’ll remember working on his kitchen with his Dad long after you’ve forgotten.
Good luck!
Looks like he has a well rounded set of the latest from DeWalt! Nice Tools!
Looking forward to hearing about the project! Wow 6 inches. I had to level my floor because it sloped 1 inch. Nice set of tools. Like those dewalt tough boxes.
Conductor562 wrote:
Awesome! Project threads make me happy, lol.
Sounds like an awesome project. He’ll remember working on his kitchen with his Dad long after you’ve forgotten.
Good luck!
Just got home a little while ago we had a good day and I know he will remember. He called me a slave driver, and I told him that you union guys take too many brakes. But he did feed me.
ChaseRogers wrote:
Looks like he has a well rounded set of the latest from DeWalt! Nice Tools!
He does have some nice tools but they are mine. I just like using my own. Therefore, if something breaks I can only blame myself.
Harold Wray wrote:
Looking forward to hearing about the project! Wow 6 inches. I had to level my floor because it sloped 1 inch. Nice set of tools. Like those dewalt tough boxes.
Thanks Harold. I really like the tough boxes I used to have job boxes. It is a lot easier for me to move these around. It sucks getting old.
I’m the same way. I don’t like using other peoples tools.
Conductor562 wrote:
I’m the same way. I don’t like using other peoples tools.
My dad told me a long time ago. If you want to keep your equipment in good working order and to last forever never lend them out. I can not tell you how many times I have heard “I lent to a friend the guy next door and this is how it came back”.
Thats why i buy cheap tools now and then so when i need help they use the cheap tools
Can’t wait to hear about the project. How is that Ridgid compressor?
Eric J wrote:
Can’t wait to hear about the project. How is that Ridgid compressor?
I like it a lot not to large and it has a wheel. The older I get the more I like rolling things.
My son gave me the day off for a doctors appointment and also I found why the corner of the floor had dropped.
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Carpenter ants The bug guy is there today will start on the repair Wedensday
Thank god the only thing that seems to infest my house is spiders for the most part. We get some little black ants in the house when they swarm during the summer.
Galvanized plumbing too. Why anyone ever used that is beyond me.
If you would have waited too much longer the floor might have caved in.
Today was a good day. The exterminator only found damage from the carpenter ants in this one spot. Only had to rip out 4ft of sill and rim joist and sister 4 joist. So now we can get moving on the main job the kitchen.
F’ing carpenter ants. Glad to hear there wasn’t a huge amount.
Glad you found it and the damage wasn’t to bad. My kitchen has the same galvanized pipe. I am doing my kitchen next year and can’t wait. Will be cool to see how you guys do the kitchen.
I have some photos of what the kitchen look like before the gut
1st my wife making coffee before we start
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You can not see it in the photo but, there is a 4×4 holding up the left side of the stove to make it level
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after the gut
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start of the rebuild
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Wow, you’re totally redoing it aren’t you.
Wow! it’s looks great so far! Really nice how you made it a vaulted ceiling. The skylight is really nice also. That must of been hard. You have done A LOT of work so far. Looking forward to updates.
Yes Conductor it is a full gut. It would have been easier to burn it to the ground. Thanks Harold.
This is going to be an easy week for me. MY son who is a journeyman pipefitter and his lifelong friend who is a journeyman electrician are doing the bulk of the work this week. Today the put in and new 200 amp panel. Tuesday they will rough in the kitchen electric then the plumbing on Wednesday. My job is to meet with the drywall guy and get the best deal I can and pick up materials.
Man having a life long Electrician friend would be awesome I would be hard not to exploit it though electrical is the biggest limiter on doing projects. On the pipe fitter front home depot is now selling that flexable gas line stuff now when this tanked water heater goes I going to go tankless not for the energy savings but for the unlimited hot water the old body could use some longer showers.
That’s an awesome idea with the ceiling, really opens it up. Nice job on everything.
It has been a good week. We got got the plumbing and electric rough done
The drywall guys showed up Saturday hung the rock and got a 2 coats of mud done. They got the 3rd coat of mud today and will be back Monday to sand,
As for me and my son we put his Ikea cabinets together most of this afternoon. Hope to get the T&G pine ceiling done Monday
Looking good. One step closer to getting it done.
Coming along. Can’t wait to see more pictures.
Ceiling done just waiting for the drywall guy to stop by on his way home to finish the sanding. I hate doing drywall.
looking good. I hate drywall also. On one job I did 4 layers of spackling (sanding, spackling, sanding,spackling,…) looked and felt perfect. Then when I went to paint I saw the spackling line. Son of a B*^(#%.
Hanging drywall is fairly easy but mudding is one of those black art skills as I call them. To get good and not require a ton of touchup and sanding takes awhile to learn, and some people never do learn it even professional drywall guys. It’s starting to come together for you guys looks really nice!
What I have found over the years is what takes me a week takes these guys 2 days. I have been working with these drywall guys for years. They hung the rock 2 coats of fast setting mud in 6 hours Saturday 2 hr on Sunday and 2 hr sanding tonight. We will start the tile floors tomorrow.
We got the tile done today and I will be back in the AM to grout while Jason goes deer hunting. If all goes well we should be done by next week some time. I have been lucky on this job besides my son we have had 2 to 3 extra people a day to help. It has been a big help and working 7 days a week helps also.
You’re grouting while he’s hunting! He owes you big time. Been away for a few days but looks like everything is coming along nicely.
He does owe you big time. Hopefully you get some of the deer meat in return.
Today went way better then I though it was going to go at first. As I pulled up in to my sons driveway his truck was there. He got up at 4 to go hunting and it was raining so he stayed home and had 3/4 of the grouting done when i got there. I helped him finish the floor then my day went to hell in a hand bag.
I have had this hipster couple calling me about a large deck they want so I gave then a call and since the both work from home I went over to give them a estimate. Lets just say after I finish a few more beers I will have a rant over in the pub
Must have been rough.
I want to hear what happened.
What a tease 😆
I Will post something later on today. Got drunk and fell asleep 😉
LOL, I like it.
We are coming down to the end
even Jason’s step mother is pitching in
Just some trim and a back splash
Looks great. Did you make the cabinets?
Harold Wray wrote:
Looks great. Did you make the cabinets?
No Ikea
Wow that looks awesome. Is the counter top Ikea also? That kitchen is night and day from before.
Eric J wrote:
Wow that looks awesome. Is the counter top Ikea also? That kitchen is night and day from before.
The counter tops are from Ikea they have 4 coats of waterlox
Wow! What a turnaround. Looking great man.
Sunday afternoon I, Jason and his wife headed out in the middle of a snowstorm to pick out his backsplash at the HD. After about a half hour, he and his wife had it down to 2 or 3 tiles. Jason’s mom passed away from cancer when he was 12 and when I told him if you pick the tumbled marble I have some hand panted tiles your mom did you can place in the field. That made for a fast decision. When I stopped by this week to see how far long he was, he had the backsplash in and it turned out nice for his first tile job. Now he has some more painting and trim to finish up.
The best thing about this whole job is for the first time in 18 years Jason started to talk about his mom and asking questions about her.
Love everything you’ve done. Very clean and professional
Very nice looking!! Looks great!! Also touching. I too lost my mom from cancer.
Looks great. Nice for him to have something from his mom in the house.
It’s weird to see you post his name because my name is also Jason, so you can’t help to think some one is talking too or about me it’s how that crazy brain works. The tiles look amazing and its nice he has something like that from his mother incorporated in his house. I really like how everything came together some bold choices I probably wouldn’t have done like the wood ceiling but it looks great.
Looks nice good job. I love the satisfaction that comes from remodeling the home.