Thread: Kitchen Remodel

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Being willing to take on jobs like that ourselves sure helps to save the funding for hot rod projects! My house was built in 1947, it was basically abandoned when I bought it it for dirt cheap. Two guys owned it together. One had died and the other was in jail for bank robbery, lol. It took a while to get the paperwork handled. My bride and I spent a couple years working on it while we lived in it. It’s getting time for a new roof this year.

Seth, I've got that same chain saw! You're right, it is very handy, light on the ol' arthritic wrists, and reasonably powerful. The original chain is not the best, but easily replaceable. While I still use the ol' trusty Stihl for limbing and such, that little guy is real handy for chunking up bbq wood, and braking down bigger limbs to branches for feeding the chipper. Good call...………...

We started replacing the floor today, another sucky job but worth the effort. We cut the old floor out in sections for ease of removal, then removed the 2x6 floor joist and installed new 2x8's. That was the tallest I could go without some serious screwing around with the furnace duct work and some pluming. I'll put some x braces in it as well to sturdy things up. Rosie was wondering why we left the window open so she had to check things out and made sure we didn't slack off.

Here's some pics of the kitchen project. This old house sure was in desperate need of some structural repairs. The upstairs floor joists were pulled loose from the header and starting to pull down from the weight of the plaster over Sheetrock, then plaster again. Several down stairs floor joists were not connected at all to the bottom sill, I " fixed " some of them up when we first moved here but these I could not see. So near as I can tell, the upstairs was going to fall on us and shove us into the basement. I'm hoping to have the rest of the floor finished this weekend.

Sure hope none of you folks sleepwalk.

Wow that brings back some memories ,Looking good, keep at it you'll be done in no time and save a butt load of money doing it. yourself .

Wow, you are sure putting in a pile of work on this project. But for sure you're making it better in all ways. Thanks for the pics too.

Seth, very nice work! Will you know what to do walking on the floor with osb under it versus several layers of creaky boards? I would like to do the same to our kitchen but I keep telling Allyson this was supposed to be a 5 year house. Keep up the great work!!!

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Got some big items knocked off the list. We got the rest of the floor in and some heat ducts put back in, that was nice. I got the patio door wall and the south wall straightened and the door frames rebuilt that go into the basement and into the pantry. I had to start over on the frames because the wall was so crooked I couldn't work with them. I had to pull the bottom of the studs in about 1 1/2 inches to get them plumb. When I cut them loose they sprung back about an inch on their own. We also go the steps framed back in and re-worked the upstairs floor joist to gain some head room going up the steps. It was a head banger if you forgot about it. I'm about 5'8'' and couple weeks ago I ran up the steps and didn't duck and I nearly knocked myself cold. I'm sure I'm and inch shorter and I can still feel it in my neck. Christian is quite a bit taller than me and he clears it now so we're good. Lots of lights and wiring to do yet but I think our next step is move the cupboards to the steps wall again so I can finally foam the east and west walls.

Looking good Seth! Hopefully the cold weather moves along and doesn't linger on for 2 more months. Haha

looking good !! At 6'2'' I know about hitting my head , I'm glad you fixed that it makes life a lot easier not having to remember to duck.

Feels like we're finally getting somewhere on the kitchen. I bought one of those Froth Pac 200 foam kits from Menards to seal up the exterior walls good and proper. No mater how much bat insulation you put in, air seems to always find a way around it. I put that on about an inch thick and then put 6 inch bat insulation over that. The wind is howling about 35-40 mph today and I can't feel a draft anywhere. We also insulated the kitchen ceiling too cause in a few more years we won't be needing to heat the upstairs when the youngest goes to college. Most of the wiring is finished, and we also started putting the ceiling on today which is taking longer than I hoped. Kari is going to paint that the color of her choosing when it's in then it off to putting ship lap on the walls. The new cupboards are in the shed and I got notified that my floor and doors are in as well but it will be a bit before they go in.

that is really taking shape. When we redid our house after the insulation was in we put "Multi purpose plastic sheeting" on the walls before the drywall went up. ceilings too. That cut down all the drafts. Keep up the good work

We used that method before, It also helps a ton.

Very nice! When you get done, come on over. Mine can use all the same.