Day 10 of the Remodel

Long day for the contractors today.  They were still working when I got home, so Sarah and I took Ellie for dinner and picked up Davey from my parents.  They pretty much finished all the wood flooring.  Only work that remains is to finish the pantry, inside the closet, as well as replacing the base boards.  We also picked our grout colors for the back splash and kitchen tile floor.

Ellie slipped on the new floor.

She wanted to prove she could walk across it.

Davey checking out the new floor

Finished hallway towards door.

Finished hallway towards family room.

"Dining Room" still getting used for storage of tools.

Day 9 of the Remodel

After Day 9 the remaining tile has been removed from the hardwood floor area.  Some interesting things this uncovered.

1. There was linoleum under the tile.
2. There was different linoleum under the wooden rail.
3. The plywood subfloor in the kitchen/breakfast area is about 1/2 an inch taller than the subfloor in the hallway/dining room... 

Not sure how the contractors are going to handle that last item...

The contractors laid carpet pad everywhere so that we don't step on the unfinished floor and cut our feet or anything else.

as you can sorta see, the rail is no longer here.

you can almost sorta make out that under where the rail was, is a different linoleum.

picture of the doors removed from the pantry and downstairs.

Here is a nice picture of the front door close to being finished.

Day 3 of Remodel

I'll make this quick since I am sick and feeling really crummy.  Here are some pics of today's progress.

Hallway is pretty much completed.

"Dining room" is about 1/3 complete and should be finished tomorrow.

Day 2 - More Demo and the Wood Begins!

So after day 2, all the tile has been removed from the dining room and half of the hallway.  We also have some wood floors!  I love looking at it.  My house smells like concrete due to the dust in the air from the concrete board that was under the tile.

Here is some of our new Hardwood floor!

Here is Roxas checking out the construction.

Here is the fully demolished "dining room" and the wood floor covered for its protection.

(Not sure why there are spots on the wall... I think that was my camera)

Day 1 of the remodel - DEMO

After day 1 about 1/3 of the demo (for the wood floor) is complete.  We are now living in a construction site.  They were nice enough to plastic seal shut some entries to keep dust down.  They also put down some padding so we can walk around easier and put some plastic on the stairs so we don't track dirt upstairs.

"Dining Room" emptied for construction.

"Dining Room" 3/4 of tile removed.

Hallway about 1/3 of demo complete.

Hallway, showing more of the dust "shields"

Tile Demolition Starts Tomorrow!

YAY, the contractors will be here tomorrow morning to start ripping out all the old tile flooring and replacing it with wood!  I'll post some pictures of what the area looks like midway through and after they are done.

*Note:  Even though they start tomorrow, we have already paid for ~70% of the remodel.  This is mostly due to having to pay for almost all the materials already.  I mention this so others don't have the misconception that I did that the payments would be spread out more over the course of the job.

Hardwood floor arrvied

The hardwood flooring arrived at our house today.  The contractors will begin demo of the tile floors on Monday and probably be finished by Wednesday.  The flooring is acclimating to our house, which takes roughly 3 days for this product.  Other woods can take up to 10 days.  I'm super excited about the new floors!  I might be more excited about the wood floors than I am for the entire kitchen :)

In an unrelated note, I'm taking next Friday off from work and having a Lord of the Rings (Extended Edition) marathon at my house with Zach and Ryan.  If we took no breaks that would be 11.5 hours of Lord of the Rings goodness.  I expect us to be watching the movies till about 11pm at night, if we get a good 9am start time.

Kitchen Remodel update

So, its official.  We wrote our first checks for the remodel.  We have ordered all the hardwood and tile for the floors.  Soon I should know what the timeline is for people to be in my house tearing out my floor and kitchen.