Never remodel any part of your house!
That title might be a *bit* of an exaggeration (then again …).
Jeremy and I started the destruction phase of our basement remodel a few weeks ago. Our basement started with some butt ugly fake wood paneling, dog pee stained carpet, and horrible cardboard-like ceiling tiles. Oh, and how could I forget the rusted iron wood-burning stove surrounded by a lovely rock wall – ya know, cause everyone has a rock wall in their basement. You can’t imagine how wonderful it felt to tear all that shit out.
Here are some in-between pictures:
Then, after being given very bad information from a guy at Lowe’s, we started on the task of building studs to hang drywall. We soon discovered that our basement must have been built to double as a fallout shelter because there is a metal plate about 3/4 of an inch behind the concrete. This, as you can imagine makes it impossible to screw the studs into the concrete.
So, with that, we had to do more destruction and more figuring out what to do. This weekend, my stepdad and brother-in-law came over to help us start building a false wall for to of hanging drywall and also fixing some interesting WTF’s that the previous owners did with electrical outlets. We got one wall done and will hopefully be done with the other this week (I’m keeping my fingers tightly crossed).
So, wish us luck that we don’t run into anymore SNAFU’s.
Pattie Bushman said,
December 8, 2008 at 12:50 am
FUN!