When referring to the Basement Project, I’ll count from the first week we actually did anything down there.
That would be this week. Bizzee, Bizzee!
After finishing up moving most of the crap out of the basement, Monday was President’s Day and 10% off with a new charge card at Home Depot (and a free ladder). A few thousand dollars later I wasn’t sure if the free ladder was worth it! On the plus side, we’d ordered all the studs and framing materials, doors, insulation and other big ‘n’ awkward things to have delivered (scheduled for Wednesday morning).
That pretty much took the day up, although we got started on HVAC duct moves.
Tuesday my Co-Conspirator was supposedly taking school exams, so I was left alone with the plumber to mark out where to cut concrete out for making bathroom fitting changes, and left to my own planning devices, I guess. I got nails for the nail gun, tested the borrowed gun with my l’il pancake compressor, new fittings, that sort of organizational work.
Wednesday was werk-it day. The concrete guy was out in the morning, Home Depot delivered a couple tons of materials to the garage, and Shawn and I spent the day working, organizing, moving, shifting ducts, sawing through the house and generally making a noisy ruckus.
Thursday? Just the two of us, finished up all duct moves (fart fan 30’ run to outside the house, outside vent, moving fresh-air intake ducts, finishing duct sealing). Also got most of the chalking done for framing, figured out final wall position and cut out a bit more useless framing hanging from the side of the staircase.
Today? (Friday) Well, long weekends are going to be mostly contractors and strategy work, as I’ve got Tues-Wed-Thurs each week with my Nephew and without the kids so we can get loud, dirty and (hopefully not too) dangerous.
So the plumber is helping me rough-in the bath fittings while Liam naps. Good thing we dug into the concrete after all... the toilet fixture the builder put in had a large, and I mean very large, hole in it. Wheee..... That would have been fun when we started using it!
Posted by BilFish at February 24, 2006 06:57 AM