Snapped a few pics of the water sanding system, knew some people were curious how it looked/worked.
Shorter hose with the black circle fitting connects right to the shop vac. The other hose is ~20 ft and either attaches either a hand sander (shown) or pole sander attachment which was already upstairs. Just fill the bucket about half way with water, put your sanding screen on and turn on the shop vac, presto. Easy to make, a few $$$ in supplies and virtually no drywall dust.
The shop vac line ends on the other side of the blue lid (lower hole) and the sanding line runs down below the water line.
The insulation is a 6 mil poly barrier high density R13 fiberglass wall blanket. We had it installed back ~4 yrs ago when we had our house built.
We have a fully poured foundation and had the exterior of the wall waterproofed with a dimpled polyethylene wrap and the interior blanket insulation done at the same time.
Most newer builds now use that type of insulation in the basements. As for the gap, don’t quote me, but I believe it has something to do with the frost line depth.
Are you for hire lol. This is exactly what I want to do to half my basement which is half your size. It shouldn’t be too bad of a project just trying to figure how to design it
I’m all down for helping design, but not for building hire…lol. With two kids and a full time job, I’m doing this after work and weekends. That is the reason why we aimed at 2 months total for 100% completion. If I was to hire this out 100%, it would have been ~$35-40k with the finishes we are doing just to give you an idea. When i found that out, I rolled up my sleeves and don’t mind working weekends especially with best friends.
you are correct…basements have to have insulation to some particular depth (there is a chart) either on the inside, outside or within the thickness of the foundation.
Been a while since I updated, walls and ceiling sanded, primed and paint all done. Floors are almost done, will be finishing them up this weekend along with baseboard and door molding. Will grab some pics this weekend and post them up.
Got some samples of ceiling tile in, they have come pretty far since the mouse hole stuff years back. Thinking about white in the bed/bath and bronze tin look in the media/bar area. The bronze would be limited as we have ~50% of the media area with drywall ceiling so it wouldn’t be overkill.
Next up after this weekend will be hanging the T-bar grid and installing tiles, then onto the bathroom…
10 rolls of underlayment
1000+ sqft of handscraped toasted hickory flooring
240 ft of base and 70 ft of casing
Still have some trim/paint details to finish up, install barn door + sliders on storage area opening, then ceiling grid/tiles and lastly need to start bathroom
No, it’s actually from QuickStep industry leading laminate. We were going to go the engineered hardwood route but with basement humidity/moisture changes we decided not to.
I’ve already had 4 friends asked me what type of hardwood it was, definitely the best laminate I’ve seen ever…never been a fan of it till I saw this stuff. It has their “GenuEdge” rolled edges like true hardwood, its crazy how true to life each plank looks.
This is a closeup shot of the floor.
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Below, the other pic was just a stock photo from their website hence the tiny photo.
Just using a iPhone but gives you an idea of the beveled edges and scraped detail. It looks much darker in person as well closer to the stock photo, thinks its LED cans and the subpar iphone camera lol.
