how many of you have a door between your basement and garage? - Page 3 - PhillyBlog

cerberus413 · #21 (**permalink**) 06-11-2008, 02:37 PM

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Originally Posted by kevinl

I love my old house too, but every project's an adventure. I found that using a saws-all and cutting out the plaster and lathe in sheets is the way to go. You go through a lot of blades, but it's worth it not having the mess you get from ripping it out.

What sawzall were you using? I simply tore down the plaster and lathe with a hammer.... Here is an older shot of the wall between my kitchen and dining room. Lots of fun there....water lines, heating pipes and electric!

kevinl · #22 (**permalink**) 06-11-2008, 04:09 PM

[quote=cerberus413;793010]What sawzall were you using? I simply tore down the plaster and lathe with a hammer.... Here is an older shot of the wall between my kitchen and dining room. Lots of fun there....water lines, heating pipes and electric!

Just a corded Milwaukee. We moved the wall between the basement and garage when we added a bathroom. It was a big wall, but i didn't have to worry about anything behind it. I was trying to avoid the mess associated with the hammer method.

cerberus413 · #23 (**permalink**) 06-11-2008, 05:04 PM

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Originally Posted by kevinl

Just a corded Milwaukee. We moved the wall between the basement and garage when we added a bathroom. It was a big wall, but i didn't have to worry about anything behind it. I was trying to avoid the mess associated with the hammer method.

Ah gotcha....one wall isnt bad but im remodeling as much as I can....so its hard to avoid a mess of plaster around.

Scca28 · #24 (**permalink**) 06-12-2008, 05:02 AM

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Originally Posted by TomLaRom

I wish I had a door from the basement to the garage.

We live in a twin in Holme Circle. You have to walk up to the side to go in the front door. There's another door next to the garage that actually faces frontward toward the street. But it just leads to the laundry room and basement. There's no connection to the garage.

I wonder what you'd have to do to change it. If you break through the cinder block and build a door from the laundry to the garage, then you have two doors right near each other which looks kind of weird. And our foundation is poured concrete, so how would you seal up the old door?

Not sure. So I'm not going to do it.

I'm in the same area, in a two floor twin with the garage in front. My next door neighbor just had a door put through to the garage, just inside the laundry room front door. However, our laundry rooms are almost twice as wide as the L rooms across from us which are three floor twins, if that's what you have. It's not so bad having the two doors so close with the room we have. I was thinking of doing the same, but I have storage shelves all along that wall in the laundry, and I hate to lose that space, even though a door is not that big.
I could find out who his "licensed contractor" was if anyone is interested. It is a messy job cutting through that cinder block if you've never done it before...

pandera · #25 (**permalink**) 06-12-2008, 01:33 PM

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Originally Posted by cerberus413

...wall between my kitchen and dining room. Lots of fun there....water lines, heating pipes and electric!

Yes, that's another wall I want gone but mine is also full of plumbing and electrical. I've always wondered why they built so many walls (and carpeted over perfectly good wood floors) back in the day.