Florida Flip 2...New Kitchen Walls and Porcelain Tile

Florida Flip 2...New Kitchen Walls and Porcelain Tile Hello everyone. It's time for another part of our story. This is the last work we did the first winter we were in FL. We weren't supposed to work on this house at all the first year. We were supposed to do one house per winter for fun...but Mike and I never know how to stop Oh well, when we come back in the Fall...it will be easy to finish. Now that we have everything gutted we are ready for the new drywall and some of the finish work and painting The studs are up and the electric is in for the new kitchen walls. Mike and I hire out for the drywall and finish work. It is much easier and faster for people who do it all the time. Kevin starts hanging drywall in the new kitchen area. The kitchen walls are done. Kevin patching the ceiling. The bathroom walls are done. And the bathroom ceiling. The ceiling out in the main living area. Our new post that had to be installed for the electric that will go to the new kitchen island. The back of the new kitchen wall going down the short hallway to the laundry room. Another bonus of this house. The laundry room is inside Many of them here are in the garage. Kevin spray texturing the ceiling. Kevin is done so it's time for Mike and I to work. Now we can paint the house We stay with white because people usually see it as a clean slate. It isn't offensive to most people and you can very easily change it if you want to First Mike and I move our temporary kitchen into the master bedroom. We don't want anything in our way. We tape everything off and get started. Mike spraying the ceiling. As usual I do the trim. Mike rolling the dining room area. We went back and forth on what kind of floor to do. The last house we did had a very thick warm carpet. This house we want to keep light and bright. We chose an 18" Italian porcelain tile for the main living area. And it's going to be a lot of work Mike mixing the thin set for laying the tile. Moving right along....and we need to move the refrigerator into the garage And one more thing has to be moved out of the room so we can finish I am spreading the thin set one of the last rows for the living room. And the work continues. We lay the tile in the remainder of the living area. It was a big job for us. I don't think Mike and I will do that again. After all of the tile was set with the thin set, we had to grout...the whole floor. Mike filling in some grout. And another view of the whole floor. Once it is all clean it will have a beautiful shine. That's all for this story. We are almost finished with the inside of the house. The hard stuff is done Next time we will be working on the kitchen. I hope you all enjoyed the story. Lisa

Florida Flip 2...More Demo and Moving In

More Demo and Moving In Hello everyone. It's time for another segment for our story. I don't want to overload the pictures. So far we have gotten the kitchen walls out. We have two more walls to go and then we should be wide open 12-15 We have scheduled the carpet installation at the other flip which means we have to get this house ready for us to move into while we work on it. We will use the master bedroom for our "living" and we will set up a table for kitchen work next to the refrigerator that we saved. Mike is in the master bedroom taking out the baseboards. The baseboards are out. While Mike works on that I get the closet ready by painting it. There are a lot of nooks and crannies in closets...ugh!!! They are not my favorite thing to paint Next we sweep down the ceiling, the walls and the bedroom floor. Now it's time to paint. Mike rolls the ceiling. After he does that I start to cut in the corners on the ceiling and the walls. My cut in. Mike rolling the walls. Now we have to wait for the paint to dry. On to more demo in the main area Mike tearing up the front wall. It's starting to disappear. That was all we did that day. We had to get back to the other house. A new day!! 12-16 We bought some floor paint for the master bedroom. It was just too gross to move into so we decided to make it fresh. I did the cut in which is my job while Mike rolled the floor paint on. What a team we are After we cleaned up the brushes and the rollers we got back to the main section. The walls are gone except for the studs. Now it's time to take the soffit down. Most of the houses in this neighborhood were built in the 70's. Most of them had and still have soffits in the bathrooms and the kitchens. Mike and I think they make the homes look old so we take them out. Time for the kitchen soffit to come down. Mike uses the reciprocating saw and the ax to start the process. Mike starting on the soffit. Ooh.....it's coming down. And it is down. Time for me to clean up the mess. Mike sweeping up the final debris. Wow what a day!!! We moved out of the other house and now we are setting up to stay here. Mike puts the plantation doors back on the windows in the master bedroom. That is the one room where we can keep the window coverings Niki, our pug, has a new home in the hall closet. This poor dog has moved more times than most people. She is good with it as long as she has her bed My temporary kitchen which is so much better than the last house Our living quarters in the bedroom. and We are moved in but we still have the bathroom to do at the other house. We are almost done with that house Finally we have filled the garage so it's time to call our dumpster company. They give us a discount if we fill it the same day they drop it off. Sounds good to me. The garage is full. The dumpster is here. It should take us a couple of hours to load it up We got a little carried away and made it quite full. I jump on top to stomp some stuff down. We are done and the first dumpster is being hauled away Well that's all for now. We need to do a lot of planning and a lot of shopping for the next few rounds. I love the planning but Mike and I both hate the shopping. I hope you all enjoyed this story. Lisa