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...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