Florida Flip 2...Tearing Out Walls And Ripping Up Tile

Tearing Out Walls and Ripping Up Tile Back to the open area of the house. We still have to clean up the soffit area and add insulation before it can be covered with sheetrock. Mike cutting nails from the wood. Making sure it is all clear of any nails and wires. Mike goes up into the attic for the first time to pull up wires. It is a very tight area. Onto another wall. We know where we are going to put the kitchen. Now it's time to get rid of the old walls and the old wiring. Mike taking out the first wall where the old door was for the old den. He is getting the sheetrock off the studs. While he works on that I get to work on one of my favorite jobs. Yeah...I'm a little odd, lol. Here I am putting in the insulation in the ceiling. And the open soffit area is almost filled. And back to Mike. He is on the last wall to be redone for the new kitchen. Next he starts to work on the old header of the old pocket door. It needs to come down. Pulling the old header down. Mike pulling out the last wall. New day...new job Onto the backyard. There were a couple of poles sticking out of the ground with rope when we bought the house. I guess at one time the previous owner used it to tie down a boat. Now we have to take it out. The rope was buried. Here is Mike trying to pull it out...and it was endless I am working on the second pipe. We are trying to get it out of the ground. We can't get it out so Mike cuts it down below the surface of the ground. That job is done Back inside and it is night time. That is one of the benefits of living in a house while you remodel. You can work anytime you feel like it We have to remove the black tile that is in the entrance way. The only tool we have right now is the ax...so Mike starts to bang away. Hmm!!! Looks like we will need a better tool for this job. What a mess this old tile is. I clean up the mess we made and we call it a day. We will have to go shopping for a new tool and it's time to get some new doors

Florida Flip 2...Water Heater and Demo

Water Heaters and Demo Good morning. It's time for another chapter in our story. I am trying not to overload everyone with pictures so I am taking it slow. At the time of todays story we were still working on the other house so we haven't gone full blown crazy yet Lets go back to December 8. Mike and I are almost done with the other house. We have a few more weeks before the carpet goes in there and then we need to move over here. So first things first. The water heater in this house is no good...so we need to replace it. Mike does such a nice job of this He starts out by disconnecting the old water heater. Using the cut off wheel to cut the old water pipes. After that we took the old water heater out and I cleaned up the floor and the walls. Then we put the new pan in and the new water heater in the pan. Mike putting the thread tape on to protect the new water lines from dripping. Adding the new flexible water lines. The flexible lines make it so easy. Mike hooking up the electric and he is done The new water heater is in. We should really get back to the other house to work but we just can't resist a little demo work. We have big plans for this house because of it's location. The biggest thing we want to do is make sure you see the water view when you open the from door. That means we have to take down walls and move rooms. This is the floor plan for the house when we bought it. This is not to scale but it will show you what it was like. The whole kitchen needs to go Some of our contractors have taken the stuff they wanted. Mike and I already took the cabinet doors off the cabinets in the kitchen. Time to tear out a kitchen The view from the front door....those walls have to go. The dining area that also has to go. Oh yeah..and the den which has to go Mike and his trusty ax....I always call it the sledgehammer Say good bye to the old rotted cabinets While Mike goes crazy with the sledgehammer I clean up behind him. Yeah...that seems to be the story of my life, lol. He gets to have all the fun while I clean it up We get all of the cabinets out and thrown into our garbage pile in the garage. Time to bust out some walls Mike starting on the first kitchen wall. And he is through. Now we can work on the other side and tear off the sheet rock. Time for the back wall of the kitchen. Just breaking through. The sheetrock is coming down. Ooh....look...I see a view from the front door That's two walls almost down. Time for the last wall in the kitchen. Almost clear And that's how fast we can make a mess Me cleaning up. While Mike was busy at one point I went around to see what I could do. This is the master bedroom. We have already gotten the carpet out and we will need to prep it very soon to move into. Here I am using a shovel, hey we don't have our tools here yet lol, to get the tack strip off the floor. And the next day....I pulled the "planter" out of the bathroom. Next week's story will be about us getting ready to move over to this house and doing some more work. I hope you all enjoyed this story. Have a wonderful week. Lisa