Novemeber 1, 2006: Framing the second floor |
Time to frame out the second floor. These first two photos show, pretty clearly, the part of the 1st floor that has been rebuilt. You can also see the stud walls on both sides of the new p...
Posted by South Philly House on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 08:28:00 PST |
October 30, 2006: The work continues on the 1st floor. |
So the building continues. I'll start with a few more photos in the basement. In the first photo you can see the columns that are holding up the floor joists. Before putting the columns in place, ...
Posted by South Philly House on Sun, 09 Sep 2007 07:48:00 PST |
October 28, 2006: A few more photos |
Just a few photos here. The first one is the basement. You can see the columns and the framing. Contrary to the comments posted by:nativephilly | [email protected] tubes are used indoors. T...
Posted by South Philly House on Sun, 09 Sep 2007 07:46:00 PST |
October 19, 2006: New floors going in. |
Just a two simple photos of the new floor going in. You can see the plywood sub-floor going down on top of the framing.Read more at SouthPhillyHouse.com...
Posted by South Philly House on Sun, 09 Sep 2007 07:44:00 PST |
October 10, 2006: More Demo and Sona Tubes |
This is just a short entry to post a few images of the rest of the removal of the first floor and the beginnings of new structural work via the addition of sona tubes. Sona tubes are these cardb...
Posted by South Philly House on Sun, 29 Jul 2007 01:14:00 PST |
October 9, 2006: I stopped watching HGTV, put down the crowbar and called a pro. |
Now that a large portion of the demolition was complete (which saved us a few grand) we hired a contractor to complete the remainder of the work. The contractor was supposed to rebuild all...
Posted by South Philly House on Sun, 01 Jul 2007 12:26:00 PST |
June 26, 2006: The end of kitchen gutting. |
Finally, the gutting of the kitchen is coming to a close. You see from the first photograph, that the entire floor in the back of the house has been removed. That first step is a doozy, an...
Posted by South Philly House on Sun, 06 May 2007 02:47:00 PST |
June 18, 2006: Luxury kitchen. |
So after three rounds of kitchen gutting, you can see the kitchen is beginning to take shape. Yeah, right. There were so many layers of stuff in this place that had to come out. You ...
Posted by South Philly House on Sun, 22 Apr 2007 07:17:00 PST |
May 26, 2006: Kitchen Gutting - Take 3. |
I was hoping to have this posted a week ago, sorry it took me so long to get to it but there were lots of different things that came up that prevented me from posting. In any case, here is the t...
Posted by South Philly House on Thu, 05 Apr 2007 06:30:00 PST |
May 20, 2006: Kitchen Gutting - Take 2. |
Before continuing the kitchen guttin, I decided to first build a new loadbearing wall so that I can take down the old one. This would give me a little more room to work in the kitchen and it wou...
Posted by South Philly House on Sun, 25 Mar 2007 04:31:00 PST |
