Ever since my new washer and dryer have been delivered final week, I’ve been dreaming about my excellent laundry/utility room. For those who missed my new washer and dryer in our present “laundry room”, you can see those here.
However getting these new home equipment has motivated me to maneuver ahead on our addition. I nonetheless don’t know precisely when this addition will occur, and as soon as we begin on it, it may need to occur in phases. However my need to have a correct laundry room now that I’ve new home equipment has at the least pushed me to discovering a contractor.
After I printed Tuesday’s put up about our new washer and dryer, and our present “laundry room”, I made a decision that it was at the least time to discover a contractor to construct the addition. After taking a look at the entire contractors listed on-line within the space, and studying Google critiques for each, I narrowed it down to 3 and known as them.
I didn’t hear again from any of them, which was slightly disappointing. However yesterday, I went to Dwelling Depot to select up a number of issues, and simply as I pulled right into a parking area, I noticed a truck with the title of a kind of corporations pull in just some areas away from me. So I walked over to the truck, and because the man acquired out of the truck, I requested if he was the proprietor. He wasn’t. He mentioned he was a challenge supervisor, and I defined that we’re eager to do an addition and requested how I am going about beginning that course of with their firm.
He gave me the direct quantity to the proprietor and mentioned they’re actually busy proper now, and I ought to name him straight. As we talked, this man appeared so acquainted to me, however I couldn’t place him. However after we had talked for a couple of minutes, he gave me his title, and I knew instantly how I knew him. This man I used to be chatting with used to work for the corporate that I employed to do our garage-to-studio conversion, and this man was the challenge supervisor who got here to my home each single day at some point of the challenge! It took some time for him to recollect the challenge, however he lastly mentioned, “Oh! Are you the weblog woman? Sure, I bear in mind your own home!” 😀
I used to be more than happy together with his work and oversight on that challenge. For those who’ll bear in mind, our storage was a sizzling mess once they began that challenge. There was every kind of joists and a pair of×4’s and different seemingly random framing within the ceiling space of the unique storage. That is what the ceiling space of the studio initially appeared like if you happen to stood within the breakfast room door and appeared up…
What a multitude! However even with all of that framing, it wasn’t sufficient to do the job of correctly holding up the load of the roof as a result of the ridgeline on the roof of the storage sagged within the center. It was very noticeable from the skin.
And because it was a storage, the ground was naturally at floor degree, and we wanted the ground to be degree with the breakfast room, which is thru that white door on the left within the picture beneath…
It’s loopy to me that what’s now my studio used to seem like that! The place that inexperienced door was is now the place the cased opening into the again entry with the French doorways is now.
So I employed an organization to do the entire framing — they eliminated all of that authentic low, messy framing holding up the roof and reframed it to open up the ceiling space…
They put in an enormous beam (which you’ll be able to see within the picture above) to straighten out that sagging ridgeline…
They stunning a lot eliminated the complete entrance wall of the storage the place the storage doorways was, poured a brand new concrete footer, rebuilt the wall, and added new home windows.
Then they raised the ground in order that it was degree with the breakfast room (and the remainder of the home)…
After which they reframed that again space, which was a storage room with an enormous furnace, into a rest room on one aspect and a storage room on the opposite, and moved the door to the middle of that again wall.
It was a serious challenge, and right here I used to be standing within the Dwelling Depot parking zone simply randomly working into the person who was the challenge supervisor over the entire Section 1 of my garage-to-studio conversion. And that Section 1 was the largest and most intricate a part of the entire challenge. In reality, I’d say it was probably the most main job we’ve had completed on this home to this point, even approach greater than the bedroom-to-bathroom conversion. And the garage-to-studio conversion will solely be second to the addition, which, in fact, would be the most main challenge we’ll ever do on this home.
I requested him if he can be the challenge supervisor of our addition if we went with that firm, and he mentioned, “For those who request me, I’ll.” I might positively request him! He was improbable to work with, and I felt very comfy with him being answerable for such an enormous job in our home. I’d like to work with him once more.
So whether or not this works out or not remains to be to be seen. I should still find yourself going with one other firm. We’ll have to attend and see the way it all works out. However what I do know is that getting the brand new washer and dryer was simply the kick within the pants I wanted to get this entire ball rolling in the best path. And after my probability encounter on the Dwelling Depot parking zone with the previous challenge supervisor on the largest home challenge we’ve completed so far, I’m beginning to get actually enthusiastic about the potential of shifting ahead on the addition.
And it began with a brand new washer and dryer. 😀
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I transform and adorn the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do nearly all of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.
