No back peddling here, but here's the story

We have been working burning the weekend oil, and the night oil, and the emergency supply oil. Trying to get the whole house done on the inside before it gets to be nice outside and we feel that we need to be out there all the time.

The big things over the past while have been the floors and the walls getting more patched up in the laundry room and ready for finishing. We can jump to the floors, when it comes to basements you really want the most durable floor that you can have, especially if you are in an area that is prone to any sort of water in the basement. We really wanted to do this " durable concrete" that was a thin layer of concrete that would coat the floor really smooth and waterproof, but they wanted $1500.00 min to do the area for our basement bath and laundry. So we decided to fore-go it and do the rustoleum epoxy for floors ad I have to say, it is like people say... prep is 90% of result. we took the time to strip the floor as good as we could then wiped it all down with mineral spirits.

After making sure that we had the floor completely 100% clean and prepped, we could then put the 2 part epoxy down. word of the wise, split is and mix only half if you are uncertain of the amount of space, it could cover more than you thought.... I only saved about 2 cups of it so i could touch it up later, and the leftover I ended up quickly cleaning the back "tool room" and laying down the remainder of the epoxy in the back. Boy that made for a really clean room!!! After the floor had dried enough, we got to start on the next part of the project, that was getting walls set up  for some Sheetrock and electrical in the laundry room. This was going to really change the look of the room but not near as much as when we get it finished.

 

on the wall that divides the office and the laundry, we first took the time to make a small "stub" wall that would keep any water in the laundry room and it also gave us something to build a dividing wall on. We also found a good use of scrap 2x4.. since this wasn't a load bearing wall, we decided that we could piece together studs so that we could finish up that wall in between. Not a perfect solution, but it worked pretty good.

Then on the other wall, we had a maze of drain pipes, supply lines and electrical, and not to mention a window so we had to find a way to snake all of our studs on the right spacing and  have enough support to get the Sheetrock in-place without skipping out on support. I ended up running some new lines for the washing machine just to get it closer to where it was needed and left a cold supply line in case we decide to put a water softener in. That way we are prepared if we decided to upgrade from our city water in the future.

Once we got the studs in place and then stared on the Sheetrock I had some help from friends and my wife; Which if you recall a while back I highly suggested that you have help when hanging Sheetrock. Also, not sure if I have photos of it, but we decided to insulate between the laundry and office because then it would drown out the noise of the washer and dryer just a bit. that and if we make it a bedroom, than it is quiet enough that a person could sleep when they are in there.