Concrete finishing averages $3 to $15 per square foot, according to HomeGuide. The Best Types of Basement Flooring and How Much They Cost Explore today's choices for finished basement floors including luxury vinyl tile, hardwood, carpet, porcelain tile, specially dyed concrete and yes, even ...
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Basement Wall Covering Covering your basement wall with a seamless, smooth surface is one of the first steps that you’ll need to take if you want to get your basement in a livable condition. We can plaster your walls or hang drywall for you, and these both offer attractive finishes. Of...
Laminate flooring or Luxury vinyl are the most popular types of modern flooring. Easy to clean and mold-resistant. Heated concrete floors can be painted or epoxied and remain comfortably warm. Wallpaper Borders Removing wallpaper borders at chair height and on the wall at ceiling height instantly...
Any ideas. Reply Todd says: October 3, 2013 at 6:53 pm It will work fine, you just need to step the insulation and seal the joint well. Good luck. Reply Joel says: October 3, 2013 at 10:05 pm Todd- Great blog! Can I install my 2″ of XPS foam over a painted concrete wall?
a toilet can be vented into the wall, and a pressure-assisted flush drives waste up to street level. In addition, completely waterproofing the space, adding fixtures, lights, and finishing the room can be more expensive because you are working on top of concrete in a space with no natural...
With eager support from my mother — who was probably happy that I wanted to do something down there besides play loud guitar, or get drunk and lie on the floor listening to Hank Williams on headphones — I painted the moldering concrete walls in 1974. Ensconced in the ass-numbing maroon ...
Next we frame a traditional wood stud wall in front of the polystyrene insulation. We do take one special step in framing the wall. First we install a layer of composite decking between the concrete slab and the pressure treated bottom plate of the wall. Finally we install some type of ins...
But installing electrical outlets in a concrete basement floor can be a much bigger task you may not want to take on. A trench has to be dug to run the wiring, and if there's any chance of the basement flooding, floor outlets are not a good idea. Not having floor outlets can make ...
Being able to do some of the artwork was something I really liked. It allowed me to participate in my own artistic way. I was trying to respond to the band, to take in your ideas and meld them with my own vision. I like that commission process a lot, assembling ideas together into ...