Basement remodelling project

dbelisle · Jun 19, 2004

Great looking job , I am sure it makes a great addition to the house. I hope you made sure that there a two means of egress from the living and any bedroom areas.

Again it looks great and I am sure you will enjoy it .

Dave in NH

GerardC · Jun 19, 2004

(what is a basement?) 

The cellar. G

jpr62902 · Jun 20, 2004

John, yes the toilet flushes and the pump pumps it out. I screwed the toilet flange into the concrete using Tapcons. For the framing, I used a Ramset for the bottom plates. Worked great! (My dogs would disagree -- the "gunfire" freaked 'em out.)

jpr62902 · Jun 20, 2004

Dave, note I called the extra room a "study", not a bedroom. I didn't feel like cutting larger windows into my foundation so I could call it a bedroom. That said, we do have a bed in there (so I can take naps in between working in my computer graveyard) /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif. Thanks for the comments, everyone! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

jpr62902 · Jun 20, 2004

Don, my definition of a basement: a large, cavernous pit, usually fashioned out of concrete or block, and situated under one's dwelling. The purpose of said pit being to provide a place into which the homeowner can pour large amounts of financial resources, sweat equity and homeowner crap they won't see or use for decades and decades.

OkeeDon · Jun 20, 2004

( Don, my definition of a basement: a large, cavernous pit, usually fashioned out of concrete or block, and situated under one's dwelling. The purpose of said pit being to provide a place into which the homeowner can pour large amounts of financial resources, sweat equity and homeowner crap they won't see or use for decades and decades. )

Since I once lived up North, now that you remind me, I do have a dim, far-away recollection of that space under a house. I haven't seen one for 32 years, since I moved to South Florida.

SteveH_CT · Jun 21, 2004

Whoa - that is a seriously nice basement. Roughly how long did it take from start to finish? Did you do the whole thing by yourself? Do you have any dampness problems from the floor - if so did you use something to seal it? I'm really impressed - that's one of the nicer jobs I"ve seen.

Thanks,

jpr62902 · Jun 21, 2004

Thanks, Steve. Congrats to you on your new life as MR. SWMBO. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

It took me almost 4 years to complete, but I had a lot of distractions in between.

The only things I contracted out were the rough plumbing, drywall finish and carpet. I did all the framing, wiring, insulation, drywall hanging, tile and trim carpentry. Mrs. jpr62902 did the painting. Of course, I also was blessed with the help of many neighbors and friends, some of whom are contractors.

My basement was dry to begin with, so no sealing was needed. I did put in a battery backup storm sump pump and connected my downspouts to a 4" storm drain, in order to keep as much water away from the foundation as possible. Therein lies the tractor connection. I dug the trenches for the drains with my BX22 BH.

So far so good!

polecat · Jun 23, 2004

Absolutely beautiful job!!!!!!!

did u take pics of all of the in between stuff so that u can teach all of us!!!!!! theonly thing that could top that is the almost entire building of a house!!!!!...next year for me as im tiredof no basement...no shop...no nuthin but a fallin down ol log cabin witha 2-3' crawl space that show s what a moron the builder was !!!he even set some of the posts on now rottin stumps!!!!!!! /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif