Following Hurricane Florence we had some damage in ME's music studio, the former attached 2 car garage. So my time has gone into rehabbing this space and as of yesterday we finally had 2 Blokes and a Lorry (the British branch of 2 Man and a Truck - J/K, of course) bring the furniture and miscellaneous junk back from the storage place. I did everything except the mold treatment, foam insulation, flooring and the drywall tape and mudding myself and I'm pretty pleased with the results.
I've done everything I can think of to keep water out of there but you just never know, so all the new stuff is as water resistant as possible. The new drywall is the purple stuff, the flooring is LVP (luxury vinyl plank), and even the new trim is what I call "notwood" - looks like wood but it's notwood, it's PVC plastic like plumbing pipe. So with any luck there will be no more water but if there is it'll do minimal damage. Here's the pics:
1) Some of the mold we found. YUCCHHHHH!!!!
The room with the drywall stripped. I cut it at 24" under the windows so I didn't have to re-trim that area - lazy but effective. At this point we brought in a mold remediation company and they hosed everything including the floor with some kind of superjuice including the spice thyme. It seems to have worked well.
Insulation. The foam is also water repellent so no future issues there. Because I had the prep work done it wasn't too pricey.
Nifty purple drywall in place. Not waterproof but water resistant. And yes, the piano was there throughout the whole process as it's just too much to move. I bagged it up to protect it as much as possible and it seems to have survived well though it'll need tuning. For some reason I don't have a pic of the finished taping and mudding - oh, well.....
And painted. Here the flooring is down and ME's new area rug is in place - pricey but classy in the room.
I was faced with an interesting bit of trim work along one wall. The crew who poured the garage footing wasn't too careful in making the footing fit a standard wall width, thinking this would always be a garage. This left a step along a part of the wall that had to be finished in some manner.
The baseboard was a glue-up of a 3/4"x4" board and the fancy trim. So I added to my glue-up and 3/4"x1/2" band from the back toward the wall as shown.
And the corner shown above w/base. I coped the corner (proof that I CAN cope!) so the two profiles mate up. Since this pic I added a quick swipe of caulk and it looks perfect. I kinda like how this turned out.
Moving back in. All the stuff is all in the room though there's a ton of organizing and arranging to do.
I've done everything I can think of to keep water out of there but you just never know, so all the new stuff is as water resistant as possible. The new drywall is the purple stuff, the flooring is LVP (luxury vinyl plank), and even the new trim is what I call "notwood" - looks like wood but it's notwood, it's PVC plastic like plumbing pipe. So with any luck there will be no more water but if there is it'll do minimal damage. Here's the pics:
1) Some of the mold we found. YUCCHHHHH!!!!
The room with the drywall stripped. I cut it at 24" under the windows so I didn't have to re-trim that area - lazy but effective. At this point we brought in a mold remediation company and they hosed everything including the floor with some kind of superjuice including the spice thyme. It seems to have worked well.
Insulation. The foam is also water repellent so no future issues there. Because I had the prep work done it wasn't too pricey.
Nifty purple drywall in place. Not waterproof but water resistant. And yes, the piano was there throughout the whole process as it's just too much to move. I bagged it up to protect it as much as possible and it seems to have survived well though it'll need tuning. For some reason I don't have a pic of the finished taping and mudding - oh, well.....
And painted. Here the flooring is down and ME's new area rug is in place - pricey but classy in the room.
I was faced with an interesting bit of trim work along one wall. The crew who poured the garage footing wasn't too careful in making the footing fit a standard wall width, thinking this would always be a garage. This left a step along a part of the wall that had to be finished in some manner.
The baseboard was a glue-up of a 3/4"x4" board and the fancy trim. So I added to my glue-up and 3/4"x1/2" band from the back toward the wall as shown.
And the corner shown above w/base. I coped the corner (proof that I CAN cope!) so the two profiles mate up. Since this pic I added a quick swipe of caulk and it looks perfect. I kinda like how this turned out.
Moving back in. All the stuff is all in the room though there's a ton of organizing and arranging to do.
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