Renovation Replace! • Kath Eats

By jpmigny2020@gmail.com

March 31, 2023

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Right here is the newest replace from our house renovation as we add a kitchen in our storage! Click on right here for all of our renovation weblog posts. Try my Instagram story spotlight “Demo” for all of the reside movies!

A Entire New Home

You aren’t even going to acknowledge our home after this renovation replace! I positive don’t. Solar Constructions has been doing a superb job turning it from home to barn and again to accommodate!

Here’s what the upstairs bed room seemed like after I ended our demo week weblog put up:

Right here’s what it seemed like earlier than from this view:

And right here’s the way it seemed a number of days later when the dormer was full!

WINDOWS!!!!!!!! And headspace. And a lot gentle!

From the other facet:

Earlier than:

And now:

After all it feels so open as a result of there aren’t any closets or rest room partitions, and the ceilings go all the way in which up. It should really feel rather less open and ethereal when the drywall goes up, however for now I’m loving how open all of it feels.

Partitions Coming Down

An enormous a part of this renovation is opening up the wall between the kitchen and the storage. That wall couldn’t come down till the cinder blocks and brick that sat on prime of it additionally got here down.

So after the dormer was constructed, the outer wall of the home got here down one block at a prime.

Beginning on the prime till the entire bed room was open air!

It was loopy to stroll or drive by the home at this level! Folks needed to marvel what was occurring. It seemed just like the facet simply exploded out!

Demoing the Roof Deck

The roof deck that we used 8 occasions in 8 years was subsequent to go till you possibly can see proper down into the storage!

Demoing The Kitchen

As soon as the blocks and bricks on prime of the wall had been gone, they may begin to demo the kitchen wall we would have liked to open up all alongside.

First the kitchen was disassembled (it’s going to Habitat)

Momentary Wall

After which they put up a short lived wall to carry up the ceiling joists.

And so they chipped away at it till it crumbled to the bottom.

I didn’t wish to be the one to need to shovel all of that heavy weight within the dumpster! These guys work so arduous.

Thomas has been the “workplace man,” assembly with potential purchasers and doing all the enterprise issues for years now, however he’s been getting soiled with the crew and doing what he can.

Welcome to our barn!

The joke of this week was that our home was principally an open barn : )

You may see how a lot of the roof they changed on this pic.

The brand new kitchen beam

Subsequent an enormous beam went in to carry all of the joists into place. Speak about heavy work!

Beam is in!

New Kitchen Ceiling Joists

After which the brand new ceiling may go in, hooked up to the brand new beam.

Upstairs Outer Wall Framed + Storage Room

You may see the doorway into the brand new storage room. This wall couldn’t be constructed till there was a beam which couldn’t go in with a ton of blocks on prime! It’s all a snowball impact.

This new attic / storage room will home a few of our HVAC and seasonal stuff like skis and Christmas packing containers!

Momentary Kitchen Wall Comes Down

As soon as the beam was in place, they may join the previous kitchen facet ceiling joists to that with brackets and the momentary wall got here down. Now it’s one massive room! (Thomas additionally demoed the previous kitchen ceiling too.)

New facet porch

The framing for the brand new facet porch went up so the brand new roof may sit on prime of these beams. This facet porch is among the issues I’m most enthusiastic about!

Roofline Framing

As soon as the brand new partitions and ceiling had been in, they may body the brand new roof! For a weekend it was a easy tarp whereas we waited out the weekend rain.