Harold is beginning to make progress with the new basement shower and the laundry room floor. We’re hopeful that he can have both complete by end of day Monday or Tuesday in order to move to the demolition of the second floor washroom. We can’t do that until we have a functioning shower […]
Entries from March 2009
Progress update in the basement and second floor laundry room
March 22nd, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: Tiles · Laundry room · Basement
Tiling begins in the basement washroom
March 20th, 2009 · 2 Comments
We made contact with our tiler Harold (416.801.6961) last week and were lucky enough to secure him on short notice. Harold did the backsplash in our kitchen and the bathroom floor in our old house and we’ve been happy with his work.
He began working on the basement washroom today. He started with the […]
Framing in the basement
March 14th, 2009 · 2 Comments
As well as making progress in the laundry room, Ben had time to do some framing and insulating in the basement. We’ve been delayed by issues with our main water line coming into the house. The City has had trouble with our valve on the street (if that’s the right term?). We’ve […]
Tags: Basement
Laundry room update
March 14th, 2009 · 1 Comment
After the plumbing fiasco last weekend we made some good progress this week in the laundry room. Ben and Sergey finished the demo and then Ben framed, insulated, ran new plumbing and added the drywall. We now have to finish the drain, replace the sub-floor for the tiler and tape and mud.
We’ve ordered […]
Tags: Laundry room
The fun of renovations…
March 8th, 2009 · 4 Comments
What a Saturday afternoon. As we were doing the demolition in the laundry room we heard a dreaded “drip, drip, drip”.
It quickly turned into a heavy downpour in our NEW KITCHEN.
We quickly turned off the main water line and opened faucets to drain the pipes. We then had to drill a hole in […]
Tags: Bathroom · Laundry room · Kitchens