What Did You Do To Your Home Today?
 

Inspired by the "911" thread I wanted to start a new one referencing our homes. They are our castles and most valuable assets we have (arguably).

Share your projects, post your pics, throw in ideas.

Inside, outside, garden, pool... All involved!




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Let me start. I initiated the project to landscape my frt and backyards. Getting some quotes. Partial grass. Need grass that can withstand harsh summer conditions.

Inside we are remodeling our kitchen. Pics to follow.


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installed a new Toto toilet in workshop bathroom. placed the old one in my trash bin and smashed it to pieces with a hammer.

Pushed the start button on the pool robot.

Weeded a third of the yard while my 2.5yo son ran from one end the more times than I could count.

Was nice to spend the evening outside. We broke some weather records in Seattle today hitting 90 degrees. Which is rare even for the middle of summer.

Emptied my stuff out of our master bedroom walk-in closet (6x14 ft)and removed the particle board shelving. Started paint prep...... Will place baseboard and fill carpet gap with cedar - an accidental nice touch.
My wife removed her clothes over the weekend. We have Container Store Elfa shelving that we bought about a month ago during their sale. After the shelves were out my wife started musing how it would make a good office. Just need to reconfigure the hall closet, ductwork, a few load bearing walls to make it work. And give away the Elfa we wouldn't use I suppose. I like doing projects but my production manager makes me pull my hair out. I am now repairing/preparing the wall extra nice - since it may NOT be covered by clothes after all! A texture gun is on the shopping list.

Thanks for the opportunity to vent - and contribute to this post.

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The house is a 1920s bungalow and has no insulating inside the walls - makes for a cold room :( So I stripped the plaster board off two walls, put in a double glazed window, relocated some updated power points and put in a bit more framing. I'll put in wall batts then put up and plaster some drywall in a few days.

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I cleaned the elastomeric coating on my garage roof and a small section over the house and applied a new top coat of elastomeric paint. I'm having solar panels installed in that location and wanted to have a new surface on before the installation.

Poured the driveway (21x10) and parking pad next to it (29x22). Also, the front walk.

hey, im doing the same thing, just not as much.
want to come up and help? just kidding. not that much

tim's brother
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Yesterday in particular, just put in more hardwood flooring. I'm rebuilding the master bedroom/bathroom/closet + server closet and half bath since they share the same structure underneath the floor. I've basically had to tear out the entire area and start over. Trying to get the master bedroom done before the baby shows up in a couple of weeks at least.

Getting close...
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This is my latest project finished just a few weeks ago - a butler pantry. This room is behind the kitchen and off the laundry room. The previous homeowners had it set up as something like a maid's day room - small sofa, table, and a tv. I don't have an actual before picture, but did get one once the area was cleared and I started work.

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This picture shows some of the initial cabinet build.

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More of the build and start of the painting.

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Final build using panoramic view.

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And here it is with the goodies.

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Here's an earlier project - replacement of the fireplace mantle. The den is a rather large room and the existing mantle was rather understated and did nothing for the room. The project included demo of the mantle surround as well as the travertine tile hearth being replaced with marble tile surround and hearth.

Before from when we moved in:

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Interim picture showing some of the construction:

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Final project:

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Our most recent project was to fill level the dirt from this hole.

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You can see the hat of the man standing in the hole. We had to have a new sewer line put in because the old one had an issue at the connection to the city main. That hole was 9 feet deep. :eek:

They did OK getting the dirt back in the hole but it was not level and it needed 30 rolls of sod to cove up.

It really bothers me to see pics like this. That excavation should be shored, or stepped wider below his chest height. A small cave in and he's dead, happened a few years back to a local excavator.

I will never allow my guys to work in a trench more than 4' deep.

+1....this pic scares me too anything above the knee should be shored.

I was going to say the same thing. Crazy. Inspection will bust us for sure out here. They will send in the National Guards to kick my ass.

That "soil" is pure clay. You can make bricks with ease. It does not move at all. It is like digging into pottery when it is dry. It is bright brick red and it is compressed hard. If they were digging by hand they had to use a pick-axe to break it apart before you can shovel it.

Amatuer. Those things should be automatic!

I cleaned up after a non-hurricane 11.7 inches of rain.

Whats the best product for garage floors? Do you recommend acid cleaning the concrete first? Or a tedious pressure wash suffice?


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Dropped off all the plumbing fixtures today. Plumber starts tomorrow

Lights get dropped off tomorrow and electrician starts Thursday.

I loaded and hauled 780 lbs of scrap out of my back yard to the recycling center. Now I'm tired and want to sleep. :)

Like Kitchen floor, please post details.......

Just finished my year long cottage remodel . Every weekend for the last year. My son and I did every thing , gutted back to the studs and started over. Finished and is up for rent for the summer . Take a look a tell me what you think ( bobs cottage greens lake) just google it

We moved into a house built in 1956 about 2 months ago. The list just keeps on getting longer. :(

Cool house, mid-century mod. We love the place.

Painted the mailbox last night. I save the big stuff for the weekends. ;)

Thought I'd post a pic of the garage part of my roof I put a top coat of elastomeric paint on and comment on it. The color is "glacial white" for good reason as you can see. The roof material is a black, flash down, bituminous membrane. I let it weather for a couple of years before I applied the elastomeric coating. The coating required two coats of asphalt emulsion and two coats of the elastomeric coating. The coatings will extend the life of the roof, but the main reason I did it was to lower the heat transfer from insolation. The roof temperature at 10 AM during the summer was around 175 to 180 degrees. After the coating, the temperature at the same time of day was around 110 degrees.

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Insulated floor, built-in, hardwood floor, new trim, new windows, new cupboard doors...


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Raked the remainder of the yard, set-up sprinklers to cover entire backyard's new top-soil and seed, got the Zero-turn back in action, will complete first mow of the season today.

Good choice on the flooring nailer! I've been using the same one for two years with no problems.

$25 from Harbor Freight because the box was missing...

i used the same tool when i did my floors a few years back. First time in my life i appreciated knee cap protectors.

Plumber didn't show up. Says he's running behind. It'll be Saturday now. I wish he'd told me that before I dropped off $6k in fixtures Monday.

HVAC showed up a day late today.

Electrician is a day late. He'll be there Friday. Fixtures showed up today.

I'll finish trim outs early next week, install hardwoods and carpet, then lock out and landscape end of next week.

Hope to finish in 2-3 weeks, get a CO and move in.

Re-locating the gas line for my bbq. The present one runs along the side of my house then under the rear deck. The new line is a shorter run from inside the house.

Received an offer over asking price!

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Hey dad911 the floor is from Armstrong L6626 reclaimed wood dark. Pictures do not do it justice.

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Used to be just a slope behind the wall. Recently terraced while following the contour of the wall, covered drop-off in replanted packy.

Doing the rain dance now

So I knew I had a problem when we bought the house a few months ago with the air handler closet. It appears the condensate drain line was plugged and was not allowing the pan to drain properly. Water seems to have been over flowing the pan onto a poured concrete floor. The water found its way thru cracks to the wood floor joists and they were rotten. I made the seller make repairs to the drain line and rotten floor joists. House passed inspection so I'm thinking I'm good for now. I knew I still had some more work to do but other things came first. Well we had some hot days lately and we had the AC on. I noticed the condensate line on the outside of the house was not dripping. So.....I opened up the AC closet and the floor and filter was wet. It seems the air handler is not sitting level and the pan is tilted away from the pan drain.

I started looking around and decided to poke at the studs and the walls. The walls are covered with asbestos "millboard". Is hard and about 3/16" think. I doesn't get soft when wet like drywall does so who knew that the framing was totally rotted. I removed the millboard and the bottom 1" of studs were completely rotten away. The bottom horizontal plate of the wall framing crumbed in my hands. I could pull the nails out with my fingers. The tongue and grove subfloor was also shot.

Here is a pic.......

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