An area of our family’s basement that we have renovated many times over the last 20 years. The basement is a great place for entertaining and storing our many belongings. I don’t need to live there, but I certainly like having it there. My friend has suggested that we remodel the basement.
We are not ready to remodel, so we’ve decided to do the basement renovation ourselves. The basement is currently about half finished, but we have the space to finish the rest of it. We’ve already started to make the exterior changes, which will be the next phase of the renovation.
So the basement we are renovating is the one we’ve lived in for over 20 years. I’m sure there’s plenty of space in there that would be perfect for our family of five. The biggest issue we would have in working on the renovation is the basement itself, because we would have to make the walls and ceilings, and then we would have to completely clean it out.
The basement remodel is almost done. Weve been working on the exterior for the past few months, and the next phase is the basement. It starts with the walls and then the ceilings, and then we will probably have to clean out the entire basement. Weve been looking at places here in ny and other places in the worl for a few years, and nothing has quite worked out for us.
The house I have in ny is in a great location, and I love the neighborhood. I have never been one to do anything big and do it all at once, but I am willing to make a few changes to the home if it will make it easier for me to do it.
It makes sense to do a few minor fixes to the place before digging out the entire basement. You can do a lot of that on your own, but the first step is to do some preliminary work. We can start with the walls. The walls in my home, which are mostly concrete, are very thin (and we’re not going to be painting these for a while).
The walls are thin because they are not painted, which makes them easy to work on ourselves. You can use a foam squeegee to go through the cracks in the walls and use it lightly but firmly to fill in the spaces that are exposed. Using a foam squeegee allows you to use your hands and nails or a couple of power tools to get deep enough into the wall to apply paint. You can also apply the paint with a spray gun to get a more precise effect.
The wall surface is very hard and can be a challenge to work on, but once you get the hang of it you can remove the paint with a light vacuum. The painting should last about a month.
It’s important to note that if you do this and your foundation is still too unstable, you may have to move the walls a bit further down to make room for the new foundation.
The basement remodel looks like it will be a long process, but the payoff is worth it. The basement remodel is meant to be a place for kids to play and have a safe place to hang out. As you can see from some of the photos, the foundation is very unstable and should be moved down quite a bit in the future. It looks like we’ll see it move pretty quickly.