What Did You Do To Your Home Today?

[rcefoonia]

I missed the dishwasher, and dumped the wet remnants of a poorly rinsed French press on the kitchen floor.

[strupgolf]

Before and after. Fun job, now I can rest.

[stevej37]

^^^ Very nice job.

[lsineon]

I missed the dishwasher, and dumped the wet remnants of a poorly rinsed French press on the kitchen floor.

[jwasbury]

Don't have the skills nor the time to DIY this one...my contribution is writing checks and making the 10,000+ decisions that are required in a project like this.

Starting point. Lovely Tudor. PO owned since early 70's. Raised 6 kids in the house. Spent nearly $0 on upkeep during 40+ years.





Demolition derby. Lead paint, asbestos...the whole shebang.



Demolish masonry wall that borders driveway (and makes it too narrow). Demolish side entry for basement (for access to prior owner's "Silence of the Lambs" doctor's office).


New open floor plan...structural steel in ceiling due to removal of load bearing wall.



rear porch demolished, proper footing installed. Will be finished space now (Powder room with a view).



More perspective of open floor plan. Rough electrics in.



Rough mechanicals in. 2 zone Central A/C replaces 9 window units that were tossed in the dumpsters.



New rear entry door, all new windows



More new windows

[billybek]

Wow, that is quite the undertaking, Jacob!

The house and the neighborhood must be worth the effort.

[bugstrider]

Dang,
That place is gonna be gorgeous when it's finished.


Sent via Jedi mind trick by the cat

[jwasbury]

thanks fellas. We think its worth it.

This will be my view when seated on the throne in my 1st floor powder room (Hudson River, Midtown NYC).


Cross the street and this is the view from the new 'hood:

[jwasbury]

Originally Posted by peteremsley

Did you reduce the windows on the back? If so, why?

there's actually more windows across the 1st floor of the back of the house (plus moved the back door to that wall (the crappy rear porch windows in the before pic don't count as windows because that space was not heated and was separated from the rest of the house by a heavy entry door). On the 2nd floor one window is closed up (as depicted in the "after" pic). There is another window going in up there, but it hadn't been cut in at the time the photo was taken. Because of the reconfigured floor plan that window needed to be moved.

[bugstrider]

After the room improvement under the house. I just couldn't bring myself to put the crappy looking state surplus metal lockers back in. I'm usually a day late and a dollar short but I just happened to visit the Costco online web page and caught a cabinet sale literally the last day...

These get delivered this coming Monday, Woot Woot. I know, I can be a dork at times. It's the small victories in life.


Ok update on the delivery date...8/29/16


Both cabinets damaged from ?? One tall locker arrived locked and unable to get to the two additional cabinets inside.



No return call or email from company

[john70t]

Steps were falling apart every five years or so.


Opened 'er up and found cancer inside.


Filled core with concrete. Re-mortared bricks with Type S. Packed that baby. Don't be lazy and add too much water.
(but I'm a bit ashamed to post final and still not done w/touch up on surface.)

[john70t]

Temporary fix for a cabinet hinge second time around:
Made a template for screw hole locations first. The 110v welder came through again. Freakin' pot metal junk. Tap-tap a ring to hold it all in.


Final. It installed in a hidden location and has held up so far.