I May Have Found A Contractor For Our Addition!

Ever since my new washer and dryer have been delivered final week, I’ve been dreaming about my excellent laundry/utility room. In case you missed my new washer and dryer in our present “laundry room”, you may see these right 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 might need to occur in phases. However my want to have a correct laundry room now that I’ve new home equipment has not less than pushed me to discovering a contractor.

After I printed Tuesday’s publish about our new washer and dryer, and our present “laundry room”, I made a decision that it was not less than 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 evaluations for every one, I narrowed it down to a few and referred to as them.

I didn’t hear again from any of them, which was somewhat disappointing. However yesterday, I went to House Depot to choose up just a few issues, and simply as I pulled right into a parking house, I noticed a truck with the title of a type of corporations pull in only a few areas away from me. So I walked over to the truck, and because the man received out of the truck, I requested if he was the proprietor. He wasn’t. He mentioned he was a undertaking supervisor, and I defined that we’re desirous 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 regarded 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 talking to used to work for the corporate that I employed to do our garage-to-studio conversion, and this man was the undertaking supervisor who got here to my home each single day during the undertaking! It took some time for him to recollect the undertaking, 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 along with his work and oversight on that undertaking. In case you’ll bear in mind, our storage was a sizzling mess once they began that undertaking. There was all types 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 regarded like should you stood within the breakfast room door and regarded up…

What a large number! 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 would have liked 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 appear 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 unique 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 see within the picture above) to straighten out that sagging ridgeline…

They stunning a lot eliminated all the 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 toilet on one aspect and a storage room on the opposite, and moved the door to the middle of that again wall.

It was a significant undertaking, and right here I used to be standing within the House Depot car parking zone simply randomly working into the person who was the undertaking supervisor over the entire Part 1 of my garage-to-studio conversion. And that Part 1 was the largest and most intricate a part of the entire undertaking. The truth is, I’d say it was probably the most main job we’ve had carried out on this home thus far, even method larger 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 undertaking we’ll ever do on this home.

I requested him if he can be the undertaking supervisor of our addition if we went with that firm, and he mentioned, “In case you request me, I’ll.” I’d positively request him! He was implausible to work with, and I felt very snug with him being accountable 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 fitting route. And after my likelihood encounter on the House Depot car parking zone with the previous undertaking supervisor on the largest home undertaking we’ve carried out up to now, I’m beginning to get actually enthusiastic about the opportunity 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 beautify 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 may be taught extra about me right here.