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My small house remodel project

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#1 ·
I have been a lurker on here for a while but finally registered. Thought I would throw some pictures up of my progress. I will start by just copying m posts from another forum up to where I am now. Look forward to learning a lot more on here!

7/18/2010
Probably will be slow progress as I have a lot of other projects going on and will be as money and time allow. This was my grandpas house and where my dad grew up. When my grandpa bought this house the whole house was full of grain. You couldn't even open a door, it went through a upstairs window. When he died I put his money back into the house and had the outside resided, all new Anderson windows and a new roof. Rented it out for few years after that and finally the renter moved out, well was behind on rent and left the place trashed. Pics are how he left it and not much was updated inside from when my grandpa had it. First Ill be putting new carpeting down and hopefully removing the paneling and dry-walling. Also redoing the bath is high on the list.


The right hand side of the house in the next pic where it slopes down and you see the two offset windows is where there use to be a one car garage.








 
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#27 ·
Thanks! I didn't need any permits for the flag pole. And yeah the covers work nice. Usually the septic companies only use like 1' pipe, but I wanted room where you could stand down ontop of the septic tank to remove the concrete lid and put it to the side. Makes it easier for the guy pumping too.

Well here's how it sits right now. Still got some things to change/move, but I am happy with how it turned out. Got to put in a 1' round corrugated pipe in the ground under the deck post in the corner by the rock wall this morning and pour concrete in as I had to take out the old footing.




 
#28 ·
Oh now that is really cool! Usable terraces for layers is so much better than a tired old retaining wall . . so nice! The stones are handsome. Good choice.
 
#29 ·
Thanks! Forgot about this thread, so here's a few updates.
Put some pieces of pipe I cut in the ground for some mums. Now all my mom has to do is just pull the container/mums out if one looks bad. Also if its going to frost she can easily bring them in the garage. Then when its spring/summer all she has to do is remove them, put some dirt in there and plant here flowers. That way she always has flowers in the same spot instead of digging them up each year.





The hole for the corner deck post footing I dug.



Took a 4' long by 12" wide piece of corrugated pipe and put in the hole and filed it with concrete. Put the jack under the deck to keep it up for now, though it really didn't move, but better to be safe then sorry. Got to cut a little more of the bottom of the post so I can put that other cement circle piece on-top of the other one, but giving the concrete some time to cure.




Dug out in front of the green shrubbery so I can put a 1-2 high small rock wall to keep that up and not have a huge water run off towards the bigger rocks walls. Also dug out a little behind the rocks walls to slope the ground a little away from the wall.



And added a few more rocks to the top of the wall under the deck to keep the grade level under it so the water doesn't come flying down the side of the rock wall also.

 
#30 ·
Not the most exciting post, but I put a drain on the top terrace to help with water run off. Going to slop behind the wall towards the drain. Its just a 4' long pipe with holes drilled in it with a cap. Wanted to use the bigger black corrugated pipe as I could use a post hole digger if I ever needed to clean the inside of it out (dirt, bark, etc), but I couldn't find a cap. Instead I am going to use a guide line holder that's used to hold lines/wires up to support telephone, etc poles. It fits perfectly in the green pipe that I can just turn in the pipe if there is dirt or bark and lift it out.



The guide line holder.


And started on the little rock wall.
 
#32 ·
Also my parents bought 6 doors that were delivered today for a 3 season porch they want to put on the back deck. Guess I know what I will be doing come spring.


And took one of my tractors out of their garage so they could have their garage back for the winter. Still got a lot of stuff to move to one of my barns before my mom gives it away, lol.

 
#33 ·
I will have an update on the farm house later this week. Finally getting my buddy to come over tomorrow to hep me with the ceiling joists.

Spreading some lime...



Here's a few pics of the wall. Will look a lot nicer come summer and its actually full of flowers/plants. Still got to finish the bottom terrace.


 
#34 ·
Man, that is my kind of lawn mower, you need a roll cage and wheely bars on that bad boy, you got some nice man toys there.

You have done a fantastic job on the landscape, it really looks good.
 
#37 ·
Man when it comes to machinery you don't do things in a small way. I like that mower also, I bet it does a good job.

You are looking good on your remodel, thanks for the pictures.
 
#40 ·
Thanks!

Pretty much done with all the joists/walls. Ran a string on the second story floor before I did the new joists and in the center of the rooms up there there was over 1" between the string and the carpet in places. Now its almost perfectly level.





More junk to clean up (this doesn't include the mess I made upstairs in the last post).

 
#41 ·
Well life has been really busy! But with this nice weather we've been having its been nice.

Upstairs now. I was going to break the room in half again and put a bath/closet in one half in a bedroom in the other. But I am thinking I may just leave it one big room. I will put a wall closet on the wall next to the shelves where the door is. It will run the length of that wall. Behind the shelving unit is the stairway down also.




All new wiring and boxes ran in the living room and new bedroom on the main floor. Also put up two canister lights in the ceiling that will be controlled by a light switch in the dinning room and bedroom. By code your supposed to have a light in the room whether it be one that's plugged into the wall that works with a switch or a light. And I figured this way there can be a TV on that wall in the middle of the lights.



 
#42 · (Edited)
More junk.



There were two huge trees in front of the house and a huge pine tree on the corner. Well people pulling up from the side street to the main road infront of my house couldn't see left down the road to see if traffic was coming (towards my house) without pulling out into the main road. There's been a few accidents and with a lot of close calls. And my family and I have had a few close calls too so we decided to was best just to take them down. It really open up the front of the house too.

First two taken from my phone which is junk.



And done.




Ill be busy for a while.


 
#43 ·
Well not much of an update on my house. Been tearing out all the old nails, pieces on the floor/ceiling and old trim work upstairs in the last few pics I posted.

But I have been working at my parents as they are getting new granite counter tops put in.

A pic I took of their house this fall that I liked and it shows my flagpole.


Their kitchen. The microwave that is hanging under the cabinet is brand new. There use to be an exhaust fan for the oven there. The oven will still be going back underneath it. In one of the pics you can see how the old microwave just sat on the counter top next to the refrigerator. They bought a new refrigerator and stove also that's in the garage.


There is a decorative piece that goes under the bar so its all finished under their.


There use to be a desk where the two tall pantry cabinets are when they moved in but it was a weird place for it so we took them out. With the new granite they didn't want the pantry door opening into it so I moved the pantries over and will be puttign a finished wood piece in between the cabinets.


Had to build up the corner as all they had was little pieces of wood under the old counter top but I wanted it strong for the granite.


Also had to do the same behind the lazy susan.


I found a bunch of writing in the corner from when they built the house which was pretty neat. Has all the names of who built the house, did the plumbing, cabinets, etc.

 
#48 ·
That is about the way a lot of people think who build or remodel.:laughing:

Looking good. Question, are you going to put a lazy susan in the dead corner also?
 
#49 ·
Well I've been slacking in updates :whistling2:

Parents kitchen...

At my parents kitchen the original owners/builders had the stove gas line coming up from the basement into the wall and then out to the stove. I didn't like that as if there was a ever a leak for any reason then it would fill the wall before you knew it. So I ran it up from the floor instead. Also had to relocate a receptacle for the stove.




Their new stove and refrigerator.



Put a light above the small counter. My mom has her mixer there so it helps.



And my flag light.


 
#50 ·
Back to my house. Got the upstairs mostly stripped and found out there was no insulation. There was just like aluminum type foil covering the walls/studs. The walls are not wet, there's like paper on a lot of them I need to tear off. Still have no clue how I am going to rebuild the room/rooms. Ill have to get the dimensions and see if anyone has any ideas.





The view out the upstairs window looking to the side.



Just one of the more loads of junk I took.


Driving to the gym one day I saw a huge white thing in the ditch. Turned around and went back to find this.
 
#51 ·
Got my parents kitchen pretty much done. Ripped all the old linoleum and underlayment up (I think there was a million staples, lol). And then had carpet put down (yes carpet, though its industrial stuff). My dad really wanted it as they had it their old kitchen and he really liked it. My mom got all her appliances and my dad got his carpet. If they don't like it in five years my mom said shes tearing it up, lol.

Trying to find a stainless steel front for the dishwasher or ill have to make one. They never use it so they really don't want to spend the money on one at least right now. They remodeled the kitchen in their old house and the dishwasher still had the papers in it when they sold it. Plus most ones they've looked at have had a lot of negative reviews, so why pay $500+ for a piece of junk.










 
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