Its about the floor... (part 1)

(photo at left is the last shot taken before I tear out the old linoleum tiling)

So J asked me to rearrange some of the things i was going to do on the basement this weekend. So moved to the front of the line is the new flooring. Going int this project we knew that the ceiling and the flooring would be the two bigger ticket items. We saved some on the ceiling, and instead we added it to a flooring that J and I really like. Needless to say, that laminate floor cost probably as much as what I've put into the basement (supply costs only).

We had an underlayment product names Delta-FL. Best way to describe it is large, rigid, bubble wrap in steroids.

In a project like this, its always fun to see what you'll find. We know that there was a gas appliance in the basement at some point. The old pipes was there. We suspect a stove or a cooktop, since there was a fan. We I discovered after I removed the flooring was that there was a 2nd kitchen in the basement. Or minimally a really fancy wet bar. (photo below to the right is the floor after the tile is removing, showing where the old kitchen was).

You can sorta make out a circle in the first rectangle. That's where (I'm pretty certain) an old drain was filled in with concrete. The white areas are thin layers of concrete or thin set. When the kitchen was taken out, the owners opted to put a 2nd layer of tile down, and to make the two layers level, they used the concrete.

more to come in part II...