The Basement Project Continues. . .

Here is a series of photos to update everyone (especially those who could not make the centennial party, etc.) on our progress with the basement. The first photo in this series is from April 11th. Our basement has been completely dug out at this point to an overall depth of 8 feet beneath the existing joists. As you can see, the water heater was being supported by this contraption from those 100 year old joists. At least we still had hot water at this point. Not too long after this photo, the water heater was taken down and we've been living without any hot water since. At least we have still running water:)

Here's a photo of the basement right after the new sewer lateral was placed, inspected, and prepped for concrete floors.


Here's Ivo's right hand man, Mel, pouring the concrete.


It was a pretty quick process once they got started.


The floors dried over night and turned out great.


The next steps. . . stairway access and framing. Ivo's son, Lane, built our stairs and Dave Villella did all the framing. Dave has helped us create some nice built-in areas that will make use of all the space underneath our new stairs. What a great day when we finally had stairs to access the basement and could see our plans coming to life in 3 dimensional form.



This is the 2nd bathroom. The shower has been framed out and the toilet and sink will be on either side of the shower. The clawfoot tub from the upstairs bath will be placed in the other corner of this bathroom later on.


This is our laundry room with a new washer and dryer ready to be hooked up and used.


Next to come. . .drywall.