We inherited the house. Built in 1960. Sold our house in town and moved out to the country. Living with the in-laws as the process takes place. Originally, her grandparents were going to deed us some land and we were going to build, but we figured we could do this and be mortgage free. That sounded like a better idea. I'll post pics as the progress continues.

First I had the foundation releveled. I had to pull up the floors so they could bust through some of the concrete. Interesting that the slab was lower where the wood floors were. It felt crazy to feel the house raising up as they leveled it.

Then I started demo on the inside. Did it myself. Took about 4 weeks.

Remodel floor plan vs current floor plan

Looking forward to this thread. One question - sorry if it's a dumb one - what are the Portland and Denver rooms?

This is going to be another cool thread. Please get to work and give us folks more to talk about. Just kidding. Are you planning to reuse the wood flooring? It looked stacked in one picture.

Portland and Denver are my kids' names. Completely unintentional to name them after cities. We just thought it sounded good. I've never been to either city. If we named them where they were conceived, they'd both be named Fredericksburg.

If you are going to have a vaulted ceiling, I would look into doing spray foam for just that part. Increase the insulation value to lower heat gain. Just a thought.

~egon

I think Dr. Doctor was recommending foam for at least that part. The rest depends on the building envelope. Are you keeping it at the ceiling or moving it up to the roof deck? If you are keeping it at the ceiling, you can foam that area and use fiberglass on the rest. If you are moving it to the deck, foam everything.

For my home, I have 2x6 exterior walls and used bibs insulation. It is cheaper than foam and in a deep cavity performs very well.

Also, while you have everything open, be sure to run a piece of conduit from your electrical box to the attic and cap it. If you ever have to add a circuit, you will be glad you did.

Alright OP, no new pictures since Monday? We are expecting a big weekend here. Don't let us down.

I can't come tomorrow, but I can help in the future. As for nails, Portland and Denver should have a blast helping.

I'm on the tail end of a big renovation right now.

My best piece of advice for right now is order everything you need now. With covid everything is taking forever.

We are moving in next week and ordered interior doors 8 weeks ago. No idea when they are coming in. That doesn't seem like a big deal but it's a cascade. Exterior doors have no date as when they will come. Trim can't be finished until the jambs are in. Paint can't be finished until the trim is in. Our hardware for the doors should be in this week. Normally that takes 2 days. We are on week 4.

Appliances are hit or miss. We have some not coming until 1/1 and that if they don't get delayed. Our washer and dryer was supposed to come in last week and got rescheduled for Saturday. We'll see.

Started to get the new plumbing run. Had to pull out the old septic system because it was under where we are putting the addition (we would have replaced it anyway). Old wood floors were from Southern Pine Lumber Co, out of Diboll, TX. Going to refinish them and put them on the ceiling. Using the waterproof vinyl planks for durability.

Doing some work to prepare for the additions. Adding about 1000 sq ft of living space and a covered back porch.

Hopefully we'll get some new slab laid this week.