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Been busy redoing a house we bought in St Augustine. My plan was to keep track of the process in some sort of blog form, but the 12-14 hr days have not left a lot of time for that so I figured I'd make a thread here while backin up pics in case anyone was interested...

Here's what we started with:

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It's a cool little mid century house with great bones and the best location St Aug has to offer in my opinion. We are downsizing from a suburban house twice the size so knew we had to make some changes to make it work for us.

First thing was open up kitchen. We had to remove original exterior block wall to open it up. A nice surprise was finding that they originally ran the rafters to the porch that had been enclosed so no need to add any support. Biggest hurdle was the double poured header...We tried everything including concrete cutting chainsaws and in the end, the wife (she did help), 4 dudes and some sledge hammers worked best.

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Gone-

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Once we pulled the ceiling in kitchen, the layers of the onion just started to peel... The insulation was nasty, and wiring was maybe worse. The AC ducts were added after the fact so squished down in between rafters and we're probably cooling the attic more than the house. Because of the low pitch the only option to access any of that was to pull the ceiling in the whole house....ugh

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Thank goodness for a buddy's dump trailer. All said, block wall and heavy *** plasterboard ceiling weighed prob close to 9-10 tons total I've hauled out....

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With ceiling open I could also address a sagging roof problem that was otherwise not accessible. Luckily the ridge beam had just been cut years ago so we were able just to jack it up over a couple days and block it like it should have been done in first place. What I thought might be a pricey fix ended up costing $20 for jack rental. Don't worry the $ is going elsewhere...

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No more sag-

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So we start putting stuff back in. We hung all drywall back on ceiling so far the only thing we haven't done is the finishing but I'm pretty sure I could have done it better than the guy who did.

I ended up making a last min change to do tongue and groove in kitchen. I love the look but I now know why they invented drywall. I went with full length boards so was pretty pricey and I have prob 10 hours in just hanging it in kitchen. Wife will prob have about as much time "whitewashing" it.

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Oops not done tearing out yet. Still had to remove original front porch floor and remaining block wall. Think it was all level? If so, think again....

So I spent the better part of a day hunched over the joists cutting them down to level (or at least even). So far that has been the most exhausting day I've had.

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I feel your pain brother! We moved 10 Miles from Everglades National Park and worked on our house all through tarpon season this year. Just make sure you take a break and get away when the major stuff is done, as I'm sure you know, you're never really done.

What is it with women and demolition :confused:

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That's awesome man! Looks great and I know while it's a lot of work, both of you are enjoying it!

Too late maybe, but I've got an electric planer and a few belt sanders, router etc. You know where I'm at.

OH! What did you do with the old cabinet and stuff from the kitchen? Demo pile?

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Congrats to you and the wife on the house.

It's a PITA DIY remodeling that's for sure,

bang it out as fast as possible so it's over and done with.

It's never really over with, as previously mentioned.

Last house we owned I spent 9 years remodeling that place from roof to flooring to an addition, plus a pool. Grrrrrrr :susel: :susel: :susel:

2600sf under air.

Not exactly what you really wanted to be doing with your extra time, especially if you were professionally working in that particular field 6-7 days a week while running your business.

GET-ER-DONE!!!

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Very nice! What was the span on the rafters you said spanned to the porch over the CMU wall?

I'll have to double check, but it's pretty short. Kitchen is 13' wide so half that plus pitch (3/12) I guess?

As you can see I Vaulted ceiling in kitchen so I added H clips on all rafters where they tied into ridge beam to make up for any support the ceiling joists might have had on wall/roof...

You can see them in the pics as I haven't covered the ridge beam yet

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Not sure if anyone is watching this anymore but we finally got moved in 6 weeks later. Not done, but live able.... Main things left are countertops and trim which I can do with us in.

Here's the floors I re-did and the tile in kitchen. It was a lot of work to get 3 floors that were almost 3" outta Waco to match up near perfect. I can't take credit for figuring that all out, but I did the tile once my buddy did.

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