The Demolition is Finished!

Last weekend we finished demolishing the other half of the basement. Here are some pictures of what it looked like beforehand:

Where Our Future Closet Will Be.

Half of Our Old Laundry Room.

The Outside of Our Old Room.

Here is something I uncovered while tearing down our bedroom wall from the picture above. This was behind the first layer of sheetrock...

If at first you don't succeed; try, try, try, try, try, try again...
Finally! There's that dang stud!

That's a good example of why I have to completely redo everything, huh?

Here are some after pictures:

Looking Across the Basement

What Used to Be Our Bedroom

The next steps will be to get the plumbing done for the floor drains. That is already broken up and exposed. Once we get that done, we will be able to get it inspected, and then pour that concrete. After that, we should really be able to rock the framing!

First Tear Down

The last people that lived in our house "finished" our basement. However, they did not get a permit and they did not follow sound building practices. For example, all the studs in the non-load bearing partitions were more than 16" apart from each other and some studs were even more than 24" from each other. I suppose that is one way to cut your basement finish costs...

Needless to say, we had to tear out everything that they did. Since we are living in our basement while we do this remodel we tore down the west side of the basement first. Here are some pics of what that looked like right after we tore everything out: