It's Finally Finished

We purchased the property about April 16,07 and spent $45,000 in labour and supplies for the renovation. We replaced almost everything from, drywall, bathroom, window casings, flooring, carpeting, hot water tank, to kitchen cabinets. We installed new lighting and we're hoping someone will want to call this home very soon.

Wall colors:
Tapestry Beige OC - 32 Benjamin Moore
Masterbedroom: Antique White 1823 Bher Premium Plus





















My only pet peeve is the bathroom counter, we ordered it from Home Depot. It took forever to come, was more expensive and the sample I had looked very different from the entire counter. I wish it matched the kitchen counters but luckily it still looks okay. I'll know for next time.













Brendon Quentin and I, in the kitchen on our last day. Brendon was our lifesaver in this project he spent 12 days and weekends working until the job was done.

Brendon has his own construction company now and can be reached at bwillox@hotmail.com.

Condo smells normal now.

So many hours of work!




It was hard for me to see messes everywhere but what can you do it's construction.



Taping up the backroom.



Hey someone caught me working hard and with a plumbers crack.

Drywalling continues!

Washing windows, I'm definitely not in Paris anymore :(



But things are looking brighter as the drywalling continues.



Lets take a walk.

Townhouse cleans up well!!

Although I have to 'actual' pictures to share, I did want to relay that thanks to Steve, Darryl, Jon and I - all the junk is gone... WHEW!!

Time to drywall baby :)

Quentin.

Renovation Weekend #2

Say hi to Craig, he helped out this weekend. He's a wealth of info!

First, we opened up the entranceway...

Kitchen, opened up to the front entrance and the living room. Much better!!
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Removed all the drywall from the hallways...



Barenaked kitchen... Drywall is piling up!

We'll be ripping the wallboards away from this wall today...

Update: Day #2

Kitchen as of today...

Demolition Weekend #1

Here we are driving through traffic to our townhouse in Port Moody. It's the morning and we're full of energy.



Here's Michelle standing with a tiny pile of debris.




My Dad came to help run a few loads to the dump. This weekend we did 4 trips, and still one more is needed! In this picture Jon is speaking with the strata president who lives below. We've had bad luck and the water from either our toilet or hot water tank is leaking into his unit below. We'll probably be expecting a bill. Today I had the worst time working with the toilet. I turned off the valve behind the toilet and then thought the ceiling was leaking because I could feel water very lightly spraying onto my arm. The water didn't come from the ceiling it was actually the bottom seal that must have be broken and it was spraying, yuck yuck yuck. Actually whatever I'm still alive the germs didn't kill me.



A gigantic job for us girls was cleaning the windows. Michelle and I attacked this job for the last 2 days while the guys did most of the demolition. They had to pull out the entire kitchen, all the paneling, all the shelves, and all the doors. Each window took about and hour too, we had to scrub ad then re-scrub every little corner. The first day I forgot to bring my kettle and only had cold water, the day with warm water was sooo much better.



It was super exciting when the window did in fact come out sparkling clean. It was fantastic to realize that we won't be needing to spend and extra $8000 plus for new windows in the unit.



Here I am pulling up loose floor bits. We've been told that in order to install laminate over the old floor we don't have to rip up this old lyno. We can actually use a type of plaster to, fill in the holes and then lie the floor right on top. It was music to my ears!



Another pic of the kitchen pre-demo.



After the kitchen was pulled and Michelle and I spent 10 minutes sweeping cobwebs. I was very excited to have a clean looking kitchen. It felt so great to get rid of everything and the strong urine smell has even started to subside.



Spotless lol

The worst we've ever seen!