Our progress:
-8 trips to Home Depot in the past 5 days.
-Tore down two walls of rotting paneling in the basement.
-Used our newly acquired masonry skills to patch foundation blocks with hydraulic cement.
-I've also spent a total of 10 hours cleaning the living room, office, bathroom, and kitchen. I know I have a pretty high standard for cleanliness, but WOW. All I can say is WOW. In my 3 years as a hotel housekeeper I never encountered a bathroom dirtier than our new one.
The plan:
-Seal basement floor tile with polyurethane floor paint. Yes, it's super old tile and there's a 99.9% chance it contains asbestos so we are sealing those babies down.
-Use Quick Level to fix uneven floor in basement.
-Paint the two foundation walls where we tore down paneling with waterproofing masonry paint. Basically the goal is to turn our basement in to a submarine.
-Decide on flooring for extra room in basement once Quick Level is set. Carpet or tile?
-Install three Lally column support beams in basement to give our old home a little extra support.
-Rototill a large portion of the yard and move dirt to change the grade of our yard so it slopes away from the house.
-Smile and love our 80 year old home :-)
Our home. Yes, the trim is a shade of purple. Yes, we will paint it someday.
Less than 24 hours after closing on our house, Josh and Andrew started tearing up paneling:
wow, so much work to be done! as far as the carpet/tile debate goes, unless you're absolutely sure you'll always want tile, don't do it. i hear its horrible to take out tile and the house will be filled with dust for a very long time (everything in my house is tile except the bedrooms..i considered doing wood floors one day, but my brother looked at me like i was crazy when i said that, boo!).
ReplyDeletealso, i like that your basement has windows. makes it so bright and cheery :)