Creating that perfect space
Triple R received the opportunity to create the space that Kelli was dreaming of. An 1100 sq ft basement into exactly what she had build in her head. A full bathroom, a kitchenette, workout room for her husband, a craft room for her, spare bedroom for guests, and a really nice area for her grandchildren to play in.
We started out with the rough layout, snapped a few chalk lines on the floor and sparked excitement. The next day we rolled into framing. We try not to use old material, but after redoing her kitchen we saved the old cabinets to install in the basement. We reworked the cabinets for a nice layout and framed the kitchen to the cabinet specs which is very backwards from he norm. We insulated against the exterior walls and the bedroom to minimize sound.
Kelli had this project in her mind when they were looking to buy. There was already plumbing stub outs coming out of the basement slab which makes life so much easier for everyone involved. So we build the bathroom around the stub outs and it came out perfect.
The sub trades came in and rocked out the electrical, plumbing, and HVAC adding vents for the basements. We gotta have that space nice and comfortable for those grandchildren! I had a drywaller come in and rock that out in a few days (amazingly quick) and we painted. Flooring was next carpet in the play area and bedroom, lvp everywhere else for easy clean up. Hung cabinets, doors, casing, baseboard, and drop ceiling… BOOM we were all done.
Of course we had a major hangup throughout this process. After drywall and flooring were installed we came to find out that the basement leaked! We tore the drywall back off removed a few studs to find the culprit. A small crack in the concrete was letting water weep in 3” from the floor. Even with small cracks in the basement walls they usually don’t leak. Waterproofing membrane is applied from the exterior walls to stop this from happening. The usual plan of action is to dig down from the outside, apply polyurethane through drilled ports than reapply waterproof membrane. Only hang up this spot was directly under the garage floor….. no access. So we do what we do best… make it happen. We were able to install pressure ports on the inside of the basement walls. We then pumped polyurethane into those ports will the poly came threw the crack instead of water. It expanded dried and bam…. dry basement.
This was an amazing opportunity as we are very thankful to be the ones trusted to build out this basement. No shortcuts, no expensive change orders, all up to come, and DRY.
