We hit week 1 (of 17) full speed ahead. This week the contractor had planned to clean up the debris we had left from doing the first pass of demo, and finish off the rest of the demo work that had to be done. Here’s the photo recap:
Second Floor Bedroom cleaned out, brick exposed on the chimney, and back wall. We had originally intended to just repair the existing plaster on this wall but have since decided otherwise. The fire escape is attached to the exterior of this wall. To repair the escape, we had to expose the anchor points from the interior- when we did this, the plaster pretty much flaked off so we went with it. Looks great!
The big reveal (thought we were done with the fun reveals didn’t you?) was the 3rd Floor small bedroom. In exposing the metal anchors for that same fire escape, we took out the back wall of the closet, making it about a foot deeper. While we were at it, we decided to expose the chimney in this room as well. It went from being a “meh” room to one of my favorites. To compare, see the picture below of the 2nd Floor Bedroom that is almost identical. We haven’t done any brick exposing in there… yet.
The final thing we did was put OSB underlayment down on top of the existing floor. It would have been nice to use the existing floors, but they were in pretty bad shape- really thin, holes in many places, and tons of half-assed patches. Now we’ll have a solid floor to put the new wood laminate down on, and not to mention better sound dampening between units.
That pretty much wraps up Week 1:17. We’re really excited to have found a great contractor and to have the project fully underway. It’s looking like we’ve got some really great spaces on our hands- that are getting even cooler. Stay tuned for Week 2!
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