So you think you have had a crazy week?

[BigEvil]

About 2 years ago my wife and I bought my grandparents house on Staten Island from my uncle (who ran it into the ground for the past 10 years). In need of a MAJOR overhaul.. This has been in the planning stages for what seems like forever. Some of the guys who came over prior to Tunaball were all sitting around on folding chairs since most of my furniture was already moved out in perparation for the construction.

Today is exactly 7 days that the contractor has been working. Its nice to see it come along, and even nicer how FAST its going.


Oh, btw, the future site of the pre-Tunaball II BBQ !!

Pics
DAY 1
Kitchen before and after



The rest of the house was treated similarly;


Day 2 and By 3
Bye-bye siding and the rest of the floors


Day 4

Final interior gutting, prep work, and lumber delivery...


Day 5 Oops where did the 2nd story go?


Yup thats me

[BigEvil]

Day 6 OMG these guys MOVE
This pic was taken at 7:30 am

1pm-ish


Day 7

If I didnt see it with my own eyes...




Today (day 8) they concentrated on plumbing and electrical. Tomorrow they start sheet rocking.

[SCpoloRicker]

Wowzers! Had a neighboor do a similar in scale rebuild. Didn't get it done nearly as quickly.

Good jorb project managing!

[maglover728]

That is fast as hell. If I was out near you, I'd have to use them.

[skife]

that realy isn't to bad if you've got a decent crew.


it took us a month to do a 2nd story on a house, we had a 3 man crew and i was inexpierenced.

some of the days we worked on different jobs too.

why did you use plywood for the roof instead of OSB?

[SummaryJudgement]

Schnikies! It looks like stuff is moving along for you. Good luck BigE!

[BigEvil]

why did you use plywood for the roof instead of OSB?

Code I believe.

Schnikies! It looks like stuff is moving along for you. Good luck BigE!

THANKS I will take all I can get at the moment

[WenULiVeUdiE]

Damn.

And to think it took our contractors two months two renovate 2.5 baths...

[skife]

[QUOTE=BigEvil]Code I believe.


[QUOTE]

weird, around here you can use OSB but you have to have the clips that hold them together.

Plywood is stronger anyways, but i'm quite sure its way more expensive.

[PyRo]

why did you use plywood for the roof instead of OSB?

Because:
Tounge and groove 1x > Plywood > OSB

[skife]

Because:
Tounge and groove 1x > Plywood > OSB

its not tounge and groove, they make these metal clips spefically for using OSB for roofing. give the OSB more support.


would get expensive as hell to do a roof with tounge and groove.

[BigEvil]

You should have seen the stuff that was under the siding... some experimental corragated stuff from god knows when my grandfather did the siding on the house. It was so thin and dried out you could poke holes in it with your finger. Im surprised the house didnt just blow over. :-) We replaced everything we could with plywood. 1/2" IIRC.

[bornl33t]

clips are called ply-clips, tongue and groove is stronger, but more expensive.

That experimental stuff is probably buffalo board. It's still used today just not as much.

[AirAssault]

Pop the top baby!! So how many s/f did you add? Lots of peeps in Co. to that to add sf to their house.

[Dark Side]

You easily doubled what the house was worth with that. How many K did you drop on the contractors?