We renovated bathroom and kitchen in one go. That way, we were able to use the same wall for the plumbing of both rooms. A few nasty surprises have been encountered, e.g. a complete crooked laundry floor and an unfixed white ant damage.
We knocked a few walls out in the past already. Anyway, this time the wall between laundry and kitchen
and the pantry have to go. We need more room.
and the pantry have to go. We need more room.
Not easy to get rid of all that stuff in a kitchen after many years collecting.
Could be worse.
Whoopsie - the pantry is gone!
Two hours later the laundry wall as well.
Everything ends up on our beautiful new rubbish pile...
The laundry contained the "man hole". But that's about to go, so we needed an attic ladder.
Nasty surprise one - the white ant damage. The nest got removed but the damage got never fixed.
There also used to be an air condition for which the posts got cut out without a second thought.
All this made the wall (and roof!) drop down almost 30mm as there was no support any more.
There also used to be an air condition for which the posts got cut out without a second thought.
All this made the wall (and roof!) drop down almost 30mm as there was no support any more.
Lifted back and fixed
Looks messy but the kitchen is still in working condition. The new wall is in already.
The range hood outlet
Now to insulate everything...
Bracing boards and gyprock...
Much better!
A well deserved break!
The laundry floor was completely out of whack. I tried to fix it with the glue for the tiles but it was too much. So levelling concrete
was needed to get this one straight.
was needed to get this one straight.
The old floor boards will be covered with new ones. Nina started her carpentry apprenticeship for this.
Let the wood shavings fly!
The Merbau boards separates the living area from our kitchen.
Tiles area and timber floor are flush
Almost there
We got everything properly re-wired by a really brilliant sparky. Whoever saw what's normally in an Australian attic knows what I'm talking about!
All we need now is a kitchen! Tbc...
