Gut a house and refurbish

I guess you don't need to know this now, but the Home Depot in Greensboro has them. They have the end pieces. You put a 6x6 between them.

 

thanks b, after the new stairwell to the basement was contructed they took some of the existing poles out. now i have have a surplus! these are the steel pipe braces with the screw jack and plate at the top. imma keep them, you never know.

this weekend was spent setting electrical gang boxes for the ENTIRE house. word to the wise; if you're gonna reno and older home, remove the piece of shit nails from the gang boxes and replace them with 16 penny sinkers. those cheap nails they put in them will bend up like spaghetti if you try nailing them into those old ass studs.......trust me. that old wood is hard as hell.

 

so the electrical "home runs" are in place as of this evening. i ran them myself, thank you very much (lets hope they pass inspection). i ran the cat5 telephone wiring also. my electrician hopes to come in tomorrow to run the rest of the wiring. i got 250' of RG6/U Quad cable for maximum hi-def capability. i will run that myself this weekend. i have also pre-drilled for surround sound speakers. we used our 10% off coupon at Lowes and bought a friggin 80 gallon water heater and steel attic stairs this afternoon. more pics to come.

 

steel attic stairs, fancy.

 

sure, they're cheaper than the aluminum ones.

this afternoon was spent running the tv cables. i went with 250' of the RG6/U or "Quad" cable and made 4 runs to the terminal site in the basement. RG6/U is supposed to be better for hi-def. dont get it confused with the standard RG6 though, RG6/U is .29/foot and RG6 is .19/foot. thats it for today. doesnt sound like much but it was tedious as hell.

 

more wiring, all weekend.......i never realized there was so much wiring in a house. i'll never look at another house in the same way again.

 

i hope to finish with the fire caulking and other finish tasks as the electrical inspection is set for Monday. then the spay-on foam insulation will be next. we got a preliminary quote of around $8,000+ for that. its expensive but well worth it in the long run. the county should have our permit drawn up for the new septic system soon. i hope we can get that in so i can get the yard ready before the grass really begins to come in. we priced some granite today. we visited N2 Granite here in Mooresville and got some favorable quotes for the type of stone that we want in the kitchen. its pricey but affordable and is a MUST to depict the decor we want for that critical zone. we also bought a rice rug today at the World Market for the living room. it contains the color palate that will be our inspiration for much of the great/living room vicinity. i got some more pics too.

 

I had a contractor look at the house I started this thread about. He told me it was not worth fixing. He said it had mold issues and would be too expensive to bring it up to code.

 

sorry to hear about that thelt. what kind of moisture sources/issues is causing the mold?

 

the county inspector passed the electrical today (whew!) as i did much of the work myself, under the direction of the electrical sub of course. and now we'll move on to the insulation phase. as i noted before, we are going with the spray-on foam insulation. it will cost alot more to begin with but we'll save on energy bills as well as reduce outside noise greatly. after that, the dry wall goes up. then we'll sand (re-finish) the hardwood floors and probably do some wall priming. we only have til the end of April on our current lease (here at the rental) that has already been extended one month. we are still waiting on word from the county health dept. as to the specs for our new septic system. i hope we get that in soon so we can fix the yard back before the grass really begins to grow. still much to do with little time left.

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