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Renovation Update! • Kath Eats

March 31, 2023

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

A Whole New House

You aren’t even going to acknowledge our home after this renovation replace! I certain don’t. Sun Structures has been doing a wonderful job turning it from home to barn and again to accommodate!

Here is what the upstairs bed room regarded like after I ended our demo week weblog put up:

Here’s what it regarded like earlier than from this view:

And right here’s the way it regarded just a few days later when the dormer was full!

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

From the alternative aspect:

Before:

And now:

Of course it feels so open as a result of there aren’t any closets or lavatory partitions, and the ceilings go all the best way up. It will really feel rather less open and ethereal when the drywall goes up, however for now I’m loving how open all of it feels.

Walls 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 high 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 high.

Starting on the high till the entire bed room was open air!

It was loopy to stroll or drive by the home at this level! People needed to surprise what was occurring. It regarded just like the aspect simply exploded out!

Demoing the Roof Deck

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

Demoing The Kitchen

Once the blocks and bricks on high 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)

Temporary Wall

And then they put up a short lived wall to carry up the ceiling joists.

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

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

Thomas has been the “office man,” assembly with potential shoppers and doing the entire 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 mainly an open barn : )

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

The new kitchen beam

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

Beam is in!

New Kitchen Ceiling Joists

And then the brand new ceiling might go in, connected to the brand new beam.

Upstairs Outer Wall Framed + Storage Room

You can 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 high! 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 containers!

Temporary Kitchen Wall Comes Down

Once the beam was in place, they may join the outdated kitchen aspect ceiling joists to that with brackets and the momentary wall got here down. Now it’s one large room! (Thomas additionally demoed the outdated kitchen ceiling too.)

New aspect porch

The framing for the brand new aspect porch went up so the brand new roof might sit on high of these beams. This aspect porch is without doubt one of the issues I’m most enthusiastic about!

Roofline Framing

Once 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.