Basement Remodeling: Project Schedules

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Jeremy Blackwell. I'm here today to help you get started on your basement remodel project. The schedule that you'll use when finishing a basement is very similar to the schedule that you'll use when finishing a home. In fact, it's almost exactly the same, you'll start off with the framing and about the time you're almost done with the framing, you'll want your mechanical contractor to come in and finish those heat runs so that you can frame around what he's done and not frame him in, so he can't get to where he needs to go. The next step would be to have the plumber come in, finish out the plumbing and have that ready to be covered up. The last step before covering up with sheet rock would be to get your electrical, all your circuits done and all your lines run into the home. Now, at that point if you have insulation on the walls, as this home doesn't, we would have to come in and put the insulation in the walls, at that time. Some homes already have the insulation draped on the walls and that's good enough at that point. The next step after the insulation would be to cover everything up with drywall. One thing you'll notice in this basement is we do have sheet rock in some areas and we haven't even framed it in others. Now, this is typically a very bad idea. Sometimes when people try to do it themselves, they start in one end thinking they’re going to finish a bedroom and maybe finish the other half of the basement, you know, one of two years down the road. This is usually a bad idea. The reason why is because you'll cover up all of your wiring and everything that you need to get to from one part of the house and then you won't have access to it, when you go to finish the other. What we've done here is, we've planned on that and we have electric ready to go for when we frame up these walls. We can run the electrical through the wall again."