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You know you wanna go there muahahhahahhahahah.
I actually decided that we would shut down the restaurant for the week of christmas and reopen on jan 4, so I have been totally away from my comp for the most part. We stayed a few days at my inlaws house and I used my fatherinlaw's comp for a couple of hours to check emails and thread and such.
Now the funny thing is here I sit having loaded my pics onto my photo hoster and I can not get my lap top to open up the webpage properly. My son hebbie came along with me tonight to the restaurant so I decided that I would let him use my pc as he could not get the laptop to open club penguin or pop tropica.
Like father like son, here it is 5 am in the morning and he won't conk out so I can transfer to the pc while he sleeps ahhahahahahhaha. But, that is ok he really wants to hang with dad and learn all about what I do when I come here for the allnight fish maintenance, a future mfker for sure.
Well, back on topic.
I am going to post up pictures for yall to look at, but want to ask ahead of time for people to keep any smack talk about what my house looks like out of this thread!
I ask this for one thing, because what you are going to see is a house that was started on demo with a very fast renovation in mind, but, got sidetracked dealing with some very idiotic now ex business partners which cost a fair sum of cash in addition to time. Add up a full on wasted 1 1/2 years worth of energy and attention to make sure that my restaurant did not calf, mix to that over 15k of wasted resources and a final opening of a can of whoop ass when it came time to lay the line down and give them walking orders and there you have the reason why our house looks like it does in some of the pictures, which you will see when I post them up.
Now for anyone who still feels the need to offer up condescention and such things, I will most definitely take it in stride
. Yet, remember this to speak of what one sees without seeing the full picture is an immense lack of wisdom since if one can not see what the beginning of things was to cause the middle, one most certainly will lose focus of the end.
This house although built very well in certain area's really scares me in other area's.
It was a rental property, that was hatchet job fixed up. That did not bother me so much because I can deal with that. The scary part is some of what I am finding was done by the person who built it. And let me tell you the oh so funky floor tiles that are from the late fifties that were revealed when I ripped up all the carpets are a blast
.
I am going to show this job on a room by room basis as that is how I am going to go about this. Though I will give a descriptive of work done. I did not get to doing the draft of the house outlay yet as I decided we would do a family week with nothing but quality family time. I do have the graph paper though
.
I will be back later today to post up pictures of some of the work I got done over the last month.
I actually decided that we would shut down the restaurant for the week of christmas and reopen on jan 4, so I have been totally away from my comp for the most part. We stayed a few days at my inlaws house and I used my fatherinlaw's comp for a couple of hours to check emails and thread and such.
Now the funny thing is here I sit having loaded my pics onto my photo hoster and I can not get my lap top to open up the webpage properly. My son hebbie came along with me tonight to the restaurant so I decided that I would let him use my pc as he could not get the laptop to open club penguin or pop tropica.
Like father like son, here it is 5 am in the morning and he won't conk out so I can transfer to the pc while he sleeps ahhahahahahhaha. But, that is ok he really wants to hang with dad and learn all about what I do when I come here for the allnight fish maintenance, a future mfker for sure.
Well, back on topic.
I am going to post up pictures for yall to look at, but want to ask ahead of time for people to keep any smack talk about what my house looks like out of this thread!
I ask this for one thing, because what you are going to see is a house that was started on demo with a very fast renovation in mind, but, got sidetracked dealing with some very idiotic now ex business partners which cost a fair sum of cash in addition to time. Add up a full on wasted 1 1/2 years worth of energy and attention to make sure that my restaurant did not calf, mix to that over 15k of wasted resources and a final opening of a can of whoop ass when it came time to lay the line down and give them walking orders and there you have the reason why our house looks like it does in some of the pictures, which you will see when I post them up.
Now for anyone who still feels the need to offer up condescention and such things, I will most definitely take it in stride
. Yet, remember this to speak of what one sees without seeing the full picture is an immense lack of wisdom since if one can not see what the beginning of things was to cause the middle, one most certainly will lose focus of the end.This house although built very well in certain area's really scares me in other area's.
It was a rental property, that was hatchet job fixed up. That did not bother me so much because I can deal with that. The scary part is some of what I am finding was done by the person who built it. And let me tell you the oh so funky floor tiles that are from the late fifties that were revealed when I ripped up all the carpets are a blast
.I am going to show this job on a room by room basis as that is how I am going to go about this. Though I will give a descriptive of work done. I did not get to doing the draft of the house outlay yet as I decided we would do a family week with nothing but quality family time. I do have the graph paper though
.I will be back later today to post up pictures of some of the work I got done over the last month.
Ok so here we are time to post up some pictures.
When I shut down my restaurant and catering company I decided to store a bunch of my things in the basement which we never used since it was always really cold. Add to this my mass buying spree of tanks and fish related stuff I have done over the past 2 years, and what do you get?
Hey after all you don't get many chances to open up shop on a univesity campus so why not make a mess mauahahhahahhah
A room that looks like this.
I have packed this room so full of stuff it is not even funny, but hey what do you do when you get the chance to pick up things for pennies on the dollar that will suit your future business endeavours. You buy them.
Here are some pics of some of the stuff that is in this room and other areas of my house, that came from a group buyout of a saltwater company that went belly up.
cases and cases and cases of stuff like this
these are pictures of the hatchery I have to load onto a semi in the spring to summer time which will be incorperated to some degree in an out building I am going to put up in the future, but will be partially used in the basement and garage/green space
here is something I have in the room which will be used for a superb betta wall, no cups, no bowls just a nice show tank these came out of a small town hardware store and need a bit of carpentry and they are good to go easy clean simple stuff. How can ya pass something like this up since it don't come about every day.
Now as mentioned with this house there are 2 things that failed with the plumbing, first it worked when it was not put through heavy paces like a family of 9, but when the house began to get its work over the hatchet job nature of the plumbing work showed through and it began to fail. Second the is simply the age of the fixtures to be considered as well.
Since the downstairs room was made off limits to my family do to its crowded nature no one was allowed to go in there. Well, it seems the upstairs sink could not handle the push and pull of a modern diswasher and blew its seat and leaked behind the cupboards down to the basement roof, which we found a few weeks ago.
Tonight when I go home I am rearranging my ex aviary room as a temp store room for tanks and such and basically moving this room to the north half side to finish the tear out, and then I will move the half to the south side and tear that out. Here is what the place looks like after about 1 1/2 hr work demo
the board was put up with nails so it comes off nice an clean
The wiring that is being revealed is a real bad job, I am finding stuff like this.
looks good till you see this behind the wall
is that an extension cord this plug is hooked up through
yup it leap frogs right into this plug. I will be totally redoing the wiring and setting up a seperate sub panel for this room alone, I am thinking 150 for the house and 70 for the room.
Here is an old drawing of this room that I managed to find to give an idea of the outlay.
the red area is the wet bar and sink which is perfect because it gives me water lines in and drain
no walls only 2 teleposts in the middle of the room for support, we will be adding a 3rd and possibly 4 to help deal with any weight from tanks that will go upstairs.
I am going to be very quickly putting up 2 inch insulation as the room has become very frigid since I ripped off the board.
Well family has come to get me so I gotta jet. Will post up some pics possibly tomorrow.
Though as I was thinking of what I am going to do here, I decided that I am going to do a min 15 to 25 foot long tank that is 3 ft high and 2.5 ft wide. I may as well go hardcore if I am ripping this place apart and have bare bones to start with.
Edit:I did a mental calculation of how many tanks I have in my house and I think it is around 50 or so I will count them tonight. I mean when you get the chance to score killer deals who can pass them up. All totaled the sw buy out I paid 2 grand for netted me at least 40 grand worth of stuff.
When I shut down my restaurant and catering company I decided to store a bunch of my things in the basement which we never used since it was always really cold. Add to this my mass buying spree of tanks and fish related stuff I have done over the past 2 years, and what do you get?
Hey after all you don't get many chances to open up shop on a univesity campus so why not make a mess mauahahhahahhah
A room that looks like this.
I have packed this room so full of stuff it is not even funny
, but hey what do you do when you get the chance to pick up things for pennies on the dollar that will suit your future business endeavours. You buy them.Here are some pics of some of the stuff that is in this room and other areas of my house, that came from a group buyout of a saltwater company that went belly up.
cases and cases and cases of stuff like this
these are pictures of the hatchery I have to load onto a semi in the spring to summer time which will be incorperated to some degree in an out building I am going to put up in the future, but will be partially used in the basement and garage/green space
here is something I have in the room which will be used for a superb betta wall, no cups, no bowls just a nice show tank these came out of a small town hardware store and need a bit of carpentry and they are good to go easy clean simple stuff. How can ya pass something like this up since it don't come about every day.
Now as mentioned with this house there are 2 things that failed with the plumbing, first it worked when it was not put through heavy paces like a family of 9, but when the house began to get its work over the hatchet job nature of the plumbing work showed through and it began to fail. Second the is simply the age of the fixtures to be considered as well.
Since the downstairs room was made off limits to my family do to its crowded nature no one was allowed to go in there. Well, it seems the upstairs sink could not handle the push and pull of a modern diswasher and blew its seat and leaked behind the cupboards down to the basement roof, which we found a few weeks ago.
Tonight when I go home I am rearranging my ex aviary room as a temp store room for tanks and such and basically moving this room to the north half side to finish the tear out, and then I will move the half to the south side and tear that out. Here is what the place looks like after about 1 1/2 hr work demo
the board was put up with nails so it comes off nice an clean
The wiring that is being revealed is a real bad job, I am finding stuff like this.
looks good till you see this behind the wall
is that an extension cord this plug is hooked up through
yup it leap frogs right into this plug. I will be totally redoing the wiring and setting up a seperate sub panel for this room alone, I am thinking 150 for the house and 70 for the room.
Here is an old drawing of this room that I managed to find to give an idea of the outlay.
the red area is the wet bar and sink which is perfect because it gives me water lines in and drain
no walls only 2 teleposts in the middle of the room for support, we will be adding a 3rd and possibly 4 to help deal with any weight from tanks that will go upstairs.
I am going to be very quickly putting up 2 inch insulation as the room has become very frigid since I ripped off the board.
Well family has come to get me so I gotta jet. Will post up some pics possibly tomorrow.
Though as I was thinking of what I am going to do here, I decided that I am going to do a min 15 to 25 foot long tank that is 3 ft high and 2.5 ft wide. I may as well go hardcore if I am ripping this place apart and have bare bones to start with.
Edit:I did a mental calculation of how many tanks I have in my house and I think it is around 50 or so I will count them tonight. I mean when you get the chance to score killer deals who can pass them up. All totaled the sw buy out I paid 2 grand for netted me at least 40 grand worth of stuff.
Heh, your house reminds me of my house, when we were doing renovations.
The back end of my house has an addition, that apparently started life as a porch. They never bothered to set a foundation, they just laid a row of bricks on the ground, then built up from there with concrete block. No wonder it sank
. We had to dig out, pour footers, and build a complete new foundation for the addition.
Then, redoing the master bathroom, we discovered that the sewer line from the house didn't actually run to the main sewer line in the street. It just meandered out into the back yard and ended somewhere. No wonder the grass grew so well back there...
And lastly, is the 3 different types of electrical wiring we found doing renovations. Some is new plastic coated wire, some is the old metal-wound wire, and some is the old bare-line wire that simply runs through individual brackets nailed to studs. I'm amazed I only got electrocuted twice... They also did such brilliant things as put every ceiling fan in the house on the same circuit, rather than separate circuits by room. I usually have to knock out 3-4 breakers to knock out all the power to a room (and even then I'm still not 100% sure the powers off, hence the 2 electrocutions).
Aren't old houses (and the shoddy renovation done before you bought them) so much FUN!
The back end of my house has an addition, that apparently started life as a porch. They never bothered to set a foundation, they just laid a row of bricks on the ground, then built up from there with concrete block. No wonder it sank
. We had to dig out, pour footers, and build a complete new foundation for the addition.Then, redoing the master bathroom, we discovered that the sewer line from the house didn't actually run to the main sewer line in the street. It just meandered out into the back yard and ended somewhere. No wonder the grass grew so well back there...
And lastly, is the 3 different types of electrical wiring we found doing renovations. Some is new plastic coated wire, some is the old metal-wound wire, and some is the old bare-line wire that simply runs through individual brackets nailed to studs. I'm amazed I only got electrocuted twice... They also did such brilliant things as put every ceiling fan in the house on the same circuit, rather than separate circuits by room. I usually have to knock out 3-4 breakers to knock out all the power to a room (and even then I'm still not 100% sure the powers off, hence the 2 electrocutions).
Aren't old houses (and the shoddy renovation done before you bought them) so much FUN!
Busy, yeh that for sure is a word to describe how this is gonna go. Thankfully my restaurant is located in a university campus, so I am able to shut right down till Jan 4.
Don't even get me started on the electrical. I am finding places where nails have been driven right through the electrical wire. I am wondering how there has not been any shortages or arcing.
I will take a pic of another one of my rooms for ya to give you an idea on just how much fish stuff I have packed into this house. If I was to actually pay for a storage place big enough it would cost me at least $400/ month. My wife told me she could care less how crowded I made our house so long as it was within the plans for our businesses.
Will update again next week.
Over the last 3 days we have been doing plumbing repair. I also will draft out the floor plan of the house and post up a picture of it for ya to get an idea.
Don't even get me started on the electrical. I am finding places where nails have been driven right through the electrical wire. I am wondering how there has not been any shortages or arcing.
I will take a pic of another one of my rooms for ya to give you an idea on just how much fish stuff I have packed into this house. If I was to actually pay for a storage place big enough it would cost me at least $400/ month. My wife told me she could care less how crowded I made our house so long as it was within the plans for our businesses.
Will update again next week.
Over the last 3 days we have been doing plumbing repair. I also will draft out the floor plan of the house and post up a picture of it for ya to get an idea.
Ok so now that christmas is over and done with, we have the plumbing issues fixed up and I will now finish up with moving all the stuff in that one basement room into storage position to free up the room for full demo.
I copied the post I just did in acquaria central to paste here to give an idea of what we are about to embark on, though I will add this. The material cost to do the first room is pretty much covered. WHOOOOOOOT.
Well, with Christmas gone past now and back to business at the restaurant, I took one night last week to draw out the floorplan of our upstairs just to give an idea of the dimensions we are working with. The house is totally dated as can easily be seen in some of my other threads which show some of the inside.
The left of this picture is the west side, top is north and so on. I have been asking my wife what she wants to do and the main thing she keeps saying is BIG FENCED IN YARD, LAUNDRY SHOOT, AND BIG OPEN KITCHEN.
Off of the living room I intend to rip down the porch wall partition and redesign and open hanging system for coats that will line the west wall.
The 3 foot by 1 foot partition that equal to the front landing is a nice wooden planter thing that I attached to the wall, I will leave that in as it make a nice break in the room(Granted it will make for a nice stand for a custom built sw tank too!!!!!)
In the kitchen, I decided that we will rip out the cupboards from the waist down and redo them with a commercial kitchen look. Whereas the cupboards on the wall are concerned, I have removed the old doors and will use a variety of sanders to take off all the old paint and redo them with a fresh cover over of cork, bamboo or some other type of exotic wood. I also intend to line the insides with laminate so as to make for much easier cleaning.
The wall that divides the living room from the kitchen will be totally removed if not all the way at least to within a foot of the stove, and will be redone with a nice stone wall arch.
Regarding the master bedroom, I am going to design and build a full wall bed that will attach to the west wall and have matching bookshelves of 1 foot each that the 9 foot bed will fold up into during the day, I am thinking of a 7 foot length. The closet in the master and the smaller linen closet in the center hall will both be consumed with the new bathroom layout, and a nice wardrobe is going to be built to replace the lost closet space.
I really hate the way that doors inside a house take up swing space that to me is totally wasted. So the interior doors will be replaced with wood slatted roll down doors, as well as being enlarged from 2.5 feet in width to be more along the lines of the open doorways 3 ft spanse, so making the moving of things from room to room much more easy.
The upper east bedroom will lose it's closet space as well to the new bathroom, and part of the new space converted to the bath space will comprise of the laundry shoot since it is directly above the downstairs bath and laundry area. Most probably I will build the same bed arrangement for this bedroom but on a smaller scale so that this can be used as a study room when not being slept in.
The lower east bedroom will pretty much be left as it is with my daughters having the choice of how to color it but will be done up with a bunk bed system.
The bathroom is going to be done over with the same type of bath that can be found in the super suites you get in a deluxe hotel room, big enough to be able to put me flat down across the bottom, with the tankless toilet so as save on water and keep the toilet simple. The bathroom will be 12 x 6 ft when the space is converted. Depending on what the supports are like under neath I might just put in a couple of teleposts in the redo of the downstairs bath.
The outlay of the basement is basically like this. The earlier picture I posted shows the main room which is under the kitchen, master bedroom and living room, with a back store room under the porch. The downstairs bath is almost the same dimensions as the upstairs, except it has a small closet where the master closet is.
Under neath the first down flight of stairs from the upstairs kitchen the is a small walkin closet and under the landing that the second down flight is a small storage area.
Underneath bedroom #1 is the laundry area where I will be installing another set of washer and dryer. Underneath bedroom #2 is a small workshop area with a built in work table.
I am greatly thinking of attaching a front porch onto the house so that I can design barndoor type downramp into the basement, that depends greatly on the cost of such. Have to speak with an engineer to see the feasiblity of this. Though if this is not possible I am for sure going to modify one of the east foundation basement windows and attach a cherry picker to a modified support system so that I can then use that for the bringing in and taking out of what would normally be far to long to get into a house.
The plan for the basement is 20-25 ft fish tank on the south wall, by the wet bar hook up, and the north wall to be the reptile and herp wall. The theme intended for the basment main room will be entertainment grotto. With it being a main focal point for the family to hang out in the cold winter days with a nice natural gas fireplace or the electric equivalent.
I copied the post I just did in acquaria central to paste here to give an idea of what we are about to embark on, though I will add this. The material cost to do the first room is pretty much covered. WHOOOOOOOT.
Well, with Christmas gone past now and back to business at the restaurant, I took one night last week to draw out the floorplan of our upstairs just to give an idea of the dimensions we are working with. The house is totally dated as can easily be seen in some of my other threads which show some of the inside.
The left of this picture is the west side, top is north and so on. I have been asking my wife what she wants to do and the main thing she keeps saying is BIG FENCED IN YARD, LAUNDRY SHOOT, AND BIG OPEN KITCHEN.
Off of the living room I intend to rip down the porch wall partition and redesign and open hanging system for coats that will line the west wall.
The 3 foot by 1 foot partition that equal to the front landing is a nice wooden planter thing that I attached to the wall, I will leave that in as it make a nice break in the room(Granted it will make for a nice stand for a custom built sw tank too!!!!!)
In the kitchen, I decided that we will rip out the cupboards from the waist down and redo them with a commercial kitchen look. Whereas the cupboards on the wall are concerned, I have removed the old doors and will use a variety of sanders to take off all the old paint and redo them with a fresh cover over of cork, bamboo or some other type of exotic wood. I also intend to line the insides with laminate so as to make for much easier cleaning.
The wall that divides the living room from the kitchen will be totally removed if not all the way at least to within a foot of the stove, and will be redone with a nice stone wall arch.
Regarding the master bedroom, I am going to design and build a full wall bed that will attach to the west wall and have matching bookshelves of 1 foot each that the 9 foot bed will fold up into during the day, I am thinking of a 7 foot length. The closet in the master and the smaller linen closet in the center hall will both be consumed with the new bathroom layout, and a nice wardrobe is going to be built to replace the lost closet space.
I really hate the way that doors inside a house take up swing space that to me is totally wasted. So the interior doors will be replaced with wood slatted roll down doors, as well as being enlarged from 2.5 feet in width to be more along the lines of the open doorways 3 ft spanse, so making the moving of things from room to room much more easy.
The upper east bedroom will lose it's closet space as well to the new bathroom, and part of the new space converted to the bath space will comprise of the laundry shoot since it is directly above the downstairs bath and laundry area. Most probably I will build the same bed arrangement for this bedroom but on a smaller scale so that this can be used as a study room when not being slept in.
The lower east bedroom will pretty much be left as it is with my daughters having the choice of how to color it but will be done up with a bunk bed system.
The bathroom is going to be done over with the same type of bath that can be found in the super suites you get in a deluxe hotel room, big enough to be able to put me flat down across the bottom, with the tankless toilet so as save on water and keep the toilet simple. The bathroom will be 12 x 6 ft when the space is converted. Depending on what the supports are like under neath I might just put in a couple of teleposts in the redo of the downstairs bath.
The outlay of the basement is basically like this. The earlier picture I posted shows the main room which is under the kitchen, master bedroom and living room, with a back store room under the porch. The downstairs bath is almost the same dimensions as the upstairs, except it has a small closet where the master closet is.
Under neath the first down flight of stairs from the upstairs kitchen the is a small walkin closet and under the landing that the second down flight is a small storage area.
Underneath bedroom #1 is the laundry area where I will be installing another set of washer and dryer. Underneath bedroom #2 is a small workshop area with a built in work table.
I am greatly thinking of attaching a front porch onto the house so that I can design barndoor type downramp into the basement, that depends greatly on the cost of such. Have to speak with an engineer to see the feasiblity of this. Though if this is not possible I am for sure going to modify one of the east foundation basement windows and attach a cherry picker to a modified support system so that I can then use that for the bringing in and taking out of what would normally be far to long to get into a house.
The plan for the basement is 20-25 ft fish tank on the south wall, by the wet bar hook up, and the north wall to be the reptile and herp wall. The theme intended for the basment main room will be entertainment grotto. With it being a main focal point for the family to hang out in the cold winter days with a nice natural gas fireplace or the electric equivalent.
wow big project I'll be watching. maybe bext time Im out that way I can come see the resteraunt andmeet you. what a massive undertaking. sounds like it could be fun and a big adventure in the process. best of Luck
