Another Great Week in Syracuse

I left Ogdensburg at 5:45am Tuesday morning to return to the basement job in Dewitt. Thank God, the roads were clean and the lake effect snow was nowhere in sight. I arrived at the job at 7:55am with five minutes to enjoy what used to be a fresh, hot cup of coffee.
As I opened the door to the basement stairway, even after 4 days, the smell of Clorox faintly remained. No more dusty, mildewy smell - exactly the thing I needed to start my morning off right.
The next 2 days I spent removing the old tile floor and scraping away the mastic that held it in place. Forget sit ups and push ups, this right here is how I keep in shape. Spending 10 hours a day for 2 days with an 8 inch scraper and 700 square feet of flooring. Luckily day 2 was more productive in that Bob Shultz, from Shultz Construction was there to join in the fun.
With the old flooring removed, and the concrete floor scraped and vacuumed, I began painting. We decided to paint the concrete foundation walls in order to further insure that the smell of old was not going to return. Though aesthetically for the moment, the basement looks much cleaner and brighter with the white wash of the walls, the new paint will soon be covered. We will be studding out the perimeter of the basement (minus the part which will house the home's mechanicals) and applying sheet rock which should make this basement as functional and enjoyable as the rest of the home.
I know I said in my last post to check my Portfolio for the pictures of this job, but, I think I'll keep everyone in suspense until the job is complete. (This part of the job anyhow, we're not sure if the homeowners are going to want the new drop ceiling and windows put in yet.) But just as soon as we're outta there, I'll have the dramatic before and after photos up for everyone to see.
Next Week: the new Tile Floor will be installed, the walls will be studded, the sheet rock will be hung, taped and mudded, all new electrical will be run for the outlets/lights, and maybe we'll even get to the new baseboard heaters.