Seventies house with a 2.5L x 1mtr wide indoor trough for a garden just inside the front door of a huge entry foyer with complete mirrored wall and little glass wall hiding lounge entry. Othere side of the foyer had 4 cupboard doors along the wall. All in heavy dark wood.
Demolished the mirror wall and little wall and filled in the garden trough with concrete, also made a new shaped step straight across so you just walk down a step into the lounge. Amazing how this visually opened up the lounge and made it so much bigger.
Then got the go ahead to continue. Jackhammered up all the tiles in the ensuite and inside 4 cupboards that faced the entry foyer. Demolished the 4door cupboard and powder room and started to build new wir, bigger shower. Sudden inspiration realised it would make a much bigger wir if we could shift it all down 600m. Unfortunately this whole little complex was load bearing walls, so all the new structure had to be built inside the existing structure before the old walls could be pulled down. The old outlet for the basin in the powder room could now be used for the shower. We had to jackhammer out the slab and put in a long outlet grate to cover up the fact it was in the wrong place. This gave a new large wir, new bigger shower, dirty linen/storage cupboard in toilet and on the foyer side, a new linen press and new storage cupboard which broke up the long expanse of new wall.
Quite tricky and time consuming, took all week and the amount of demolished wood, concrete and tiles was amazing ending up in the pile outside was amazing. I think this stuff grows when pulled apart.
Lessons learnt: Hang up sheets and cover furniture with cheap plastic drop sheets from Bunnings as dust will go everywhere!
Battery operated saw a fantastic demo tool with a standard blade and one which cut through nails like butter, priceless!
Attachment blade with shaped shank for Makita drill for getting up tiles $50 from Bunnings priceless!
Borrowing jackhammer from plumber up the road, priceless!
Dont use domestic vacuum cleaner on concrete and plaster, - RIP!
Demolished the mirror wall and little wall and filled in the garden trough with concrete, also made a new shaped step straight across so you just walk down a step into the lounge. Amazing how this visually opened up the lounge and made it so much bigger.
Then got the go ahead to continue. Jackhammered up all the tiles in the ensuite and inside 4 cupboards that faced the entry foyer. Demolished the 4door cupboard and powder room and started to build new wir, bigger shower. Sudden inspiration realised it would make a much bigger wir if we could shift it all down 600m. Unfortunately this whole little complex was load bearing walls, so all the new structure had to be built inside the existing structure before the old walls could be pulled down. The old outlet for the basin in the powder room could now be used for the shower. We had to jackhammer out the slab and put in a long outlet grate to cover up the fact it was in the wrong place. This gave a new large wir, new bigger shower, dirty linen/storage cupboard in toilet and on the foyer side, a new linen press and new storage cupboard which broke up the long expanse of new wall.
Quite tricky and time consuming, took all week and the amount of demolished wood, concrete and tiles was amazing ending up in the pile outside was amazing. I think this stuff grows when pulled apart.
Lessons learnt: Hang up sheets and cover furniture with cheap plastic drop sheets from Bunnings as dust will go everywhere!
Battery operated saw a fantastic demo tool with a standard blade and one which cut through nails like butter, priceless!
Attachment blade with shaped shank for Makita drill for getting up tiles $50 from Bunnings priceless!
Borrowing jackhammer from plumber up the road, priceless!
Dont use domestic vacuum cleaner on concrete and plaster, - RIP!
