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So you've decided to refinish your bas ement.
Refinishing your basement is the cheapest and easiest way to add together tons of value to your house.  And information technology turns an area of somewhat unused infinite into a totally new room and floorspace.  Yous don't take to be great at edifice, electrical or carpentry.  And you don't need to take lots of tools.  Only it does help to have friends who have done it before.

This will not be a super in-depth guide to refinishing your basement.  I just wanted to go over some things i learned from what we did in 2001 and tips that will save fourth dimension and coin.  And let me merely say that i talked to every bit many people as i could almost what i needed.  People who have refinished their basements before know all the tips and pitfalls and will tell yous things you need to practice and things that yous tin can skip.  I also watched a ton of video'due south on youtube.

First, make up one's mind on what you want to do.  We decided on just refinishing half of our basement.  Our basement is around 1,000 sq.ft. and we figured 500 sq.ft. for a Tv set room/play room would be fine.  The other half of the basement is my workshop, laundry and storage.  Originally i had this whole area as my workshop, now i was beingness confined to the back 1/4 corner.

Some other view from years before.

Hither'due south the view to the stairs coming down.  The boxes you see are from the bathroom tile remodel nosotros did.

And another view of the stairs from an earlier date.   Just your typical basement.

Next you lot want to measure everything.  Measure out all walls, ceiling height (noting that it might be shorter at the walls and higher where the floor drain is), location of windows, pipes, h2o meters, gas meters, electric boxes, heating ducts, vents, etc.  Initially you tin draw this by manus on newspaper, just i think information technology's super important to draw it out to scale on some blazon of computer CAD plan.  I use AutoCAD at work and then information technology wasn't a big deal to describe it out using that.

Pattern

Here's only the expanse we were going to remodel.  You lot can see the stud walls, 2x4'south, lights, electrical, outlets, etc.  This is a necessity for getting all your textile quantities.

Once i had that EXISTING drawing, i could start cartoon the PROPOSED linework.  Doing all this on the figurer is great considering it makes it like shooting fish in a barrel to motility and delete things.  Also you can change where you desire lights to go and how many electrical outlets you need.  Here'south my final version, probably the 30th unlike drawing i did.

Here'due south a subsequently version where i had the ceiling drawn in.

A view from higher up showing the entire basement.

These views were great to get a sense of scale and how things were going to expect.

And some other view of the stairs.  This was an earlier design where we had a door to storage under the stairs, which never happened.

Another cracking thing about drawing your basement program on AutoCAD is getting quantities.  I could quickly get dimensions of everything i needed since it was drawn to scale.

Another cool affair is to draw it on Google SketchUp.  This is a free program y'all can download and really quickly draw an unabridged room in 3D.  I found it really useful to become a feeling for how the room would wait.  Plan views are proficient, but really seeing what the room will wait similar lets y'all get a ameliorate mental picture show and call back of things you might forget.

Drawing information technology to scale, for example with our seven' ceilings, helps to see whether it will look ok or not.

Our concluding plan was to frame the walls with 2x4's.  Replace the one-time windows with glass cake.  So run electric and put up lights.  Then pigment the ceiling blackness.  Next staple up insulation and do drywall.  Install 2 doors.  Then hire someone to install rug.  Paint the walls and then nail up baseboard and crown molding.

Cost Opinion

Once everything was decided and drawn, i could and so effigy out how much it was going to price.  And so i created a spreadsheet and separated everything into categories like Electrical, Drywall, Paint, etc.  The columns are Item, Quantity, Toll, Full Cost.  Then the total price of everything at the meridian.

I got all of the costs by visiting Lowe'due south and writing everything downwards that i needed.  The prices are from 2014, but they shouldn't take changed much.

This was the sheet that i took with me to either Lowe'south or Dwelling house Depot to get a price for everything and make up one's mind what the entire remodel would end upward costing us.

This was a guess at our time frame.  This basically got thrown out the window once we started working.

No but does the spreadsheet requite you an idea of what everything is going to price, but it's really of import to have when y'all go to buy everything.  It takes several hours in the store and you are pushing around a couple of carts.  You don't want to be confused every bit what to buy and forgetting something.  It's nice having a list of everything, how many you need and checking them off as you go.

I think we bought some of the stuff at Lowe's and some stuff at Dwelling house Depot.  But because of cost and we liked certain things better at the other shop.  (like recessed lights)

Here's a link to a web log post i wrote earlier on how to relieve 10% on every purchase from Lowe'due south.  Yous can also do sites like Cards4Cash where you purchase souvenir cards and get another 10% off, only that tin can be a pain sometimes.

Then now you take your plan, you spent over $1,000 on materials and you are prepare to get started.

GETTING STARTED

We decided to frame all the walls with 2x4's.  I did see that sometimes people ballast 1x2'southward to the walls and use that difficult pink cream insulation.  Simply the first step for us was to mensurate 4" off the wall and snap a chalk line.  2x4's are actually 3.5" wide but nosotros wanted 1/2" for some air menses.  The one downside of all of that is losing 5" of flooring space on each wall, but information technology wasn't that noticeable.

Another decision we fabricated was to attach the pressure treated 2x4'due south to the floor with TapCon screws (they are the blue ones).  In hindsight this wasn't the best thing.  Having to use a hammer drill to drill 30 or 40 holes in the physical was a existent pain.  I thought that one of those RamSet blast guns would be too expensive, but i found out afterwards that they are only similar $30.  If i had to exercise this again i would apply the RamSet considering it's a whole lot quicker and easier.

Nosotros framed up the walls on the footing and then lifted them into place.  We put Liquid Nails on the floor, then drilled into the physical and secured them with the TapCon screws.

Another picture from early on in the process, had to work around all the materials.

The first door I framed up.  You can come across at the superlative that i somehow screwed up the measurement and had to saws-all an inch from the top board.

A couple of things to know about framing.  We were able to purchase seven' 2x4'south considering our ceiling was only 7' high.  That saved united states of america some money.  Side by side, you lot demand a expert miter saw.  I bought a DeWalt 12" miter saw a few years ago and it's been peachy.  Making all of these cuts with a hand saw or circular saw would have been a real pain.  Having a overnice tabular array setup makes everything piece of cake and accurate.

Here'south what it looked like when we started, night and lots of stuff in our style.

Hither's the miter saw stand up that i built a few years ago for my 12" DeWalt miter saw.  Having this is a must.  You are making tons of cuts and information technology's nice having a dedicated station to try and minimize mistakes equally you go along.

More junk.  Too yous need to take a expert table for working on and going back to reference your measurements/plans.  Merely it gets cluttered.

This was after nosotros had all the walls framed up and i was looking at building the shelves for under the stairs.  Just trying to get an thought of how the new shelves would fit in at that place.

And another view of looking back at the plans and measurements to bank check that we didn't forget anything.  Likewise here you can see ane of the doors and frames we bought, as well as the difficult foam nosotros utilise for down the stairs.

Another affair you need to have is a big framing nailer.  I guess yous could spiral or nail all the boards together, but again having a framing nailer is a huge help.  It's fast and easy to make the stud walls.  I borrowed my brother's framing nailer (he bought it to practise his basement years ago).  I already had a 6 gallon air compressor and smaller boom guns.

These boom guns were only skillful for modest stuff like baseboard, crown molding and trim.  For the 2x4's i had to borrow my brother-in-law'due south large framing nailer.  But the 6 gallon compressor worked great.

Here's a blog post where i talk more well-nigh the tools and when i got them.  6 gallon air compressor and smash guns.

Some other tip is in building the stud walls.  Don't only cut the wall to be the exact peak of the ceiling.  Meaning if your ceiling is 7'2", don't brand the stud wall 7'2".  One of my friends who does structure said to measure the entire wall in several places, take the shortest height and subtract 1/2".  Cut all your board to that height.  Meaning if you measure your starting time wall and get 7'2", 7'3", 7'2", seven'4".... cut all of your boards 7'1-1/2".

I know what you are thinking, that would be way too short.  But you volition realize when you frame up your first wall and have to shell it into identify with a hammer that it's much easier to slide the wall into identify and secure it with some woods shims.  Who cares if it'southward an inch or two curt, it's not load bearing, but put up a agglomeration of shims and blast it into the ceiling joists.  We cut a wall that wouldn't fit, had to accept it downward, pull all the nails, recut the vertical 2x4'due south so put it support.  Later that nosotros made sure it was at least 1/2" shorter than all the measurements.

Direct walls area piece of cake, information technology gets a niggling catchy when yous take to go effectually pipes and water meters.  Our water meter was 3' from the dorsum corner, and nosotros decided to crash-land out the wall around it.  I figured that i could build shelves in the void later.  I was going to get fancy and just box in the lower part, only we just boxed it in all the manner to the ceiling.

We didn't desire to lose 4" of stair width, then for that wall we attached 1x2's straight to the concrete wall with TapCon anchor screws.  The 1x2's provided an anchor indicate for the drywall screws.  So we used 3/four" pinkish hard foam to insulate the spaces between.  This way we just lost i" and not 4" from the stair width.

We ended up buying 2 doors from Dwelling Depot.  They came with the hinges and already attached to the frame.  One door was to admission the furnace, that was merely 30" wide.  For the door to the dorsum laundry room i bought a 36" wide door and so that i could get any large items in and out.  I would hate to build everything then realize that the washer and dryer wouldn't fit through the door.

To mount the doors i used these metal alignment brackets.  They were nifty.  I was able to mount it by myself.  You attach the brackets to the frame, draw a vertical line, then align the brackets to the line to brand sure it's perfectly plumb.  I probably could have done it with forest shims but it would take been difficult to do by myself.

You lot tin see here that i miss-measured and the door frame wouldn't fit, i had to do a little hacking with the SawsAll to take off some other inch.

The small windows we had down there we just thin glass and looked terrible.  Then i decided to supersede them with drinking glass cake.  It took a while to effigy out what size blocks i needed.  Figuring that i needed a 1/2"-ane" gap all around, i bought blocks with widths of 8", half dozen", 6", 6", 8" to fit the opening.

The first footstep was to knock out the old windows and metallic frames.  I used a small sledge hammer and prybar.

The next thing i learned is that it takes a LOT of grout.  I remember i used an entire fifty pound bag for each window.  And then definitely purchase more than you recall you demand.  Next, you lot take to mix it pretty thick, too sparse and it will exist besides runny and slump.  Yous need a business firm base of operations or else it will exist hard to get it to stay level when you set the blocks on them.  Mine started slumping at one cease, but it's difficult to detect now.

ELECTRICAL

I've never done any electrical apart from irresolute an outlet, switch or installing a ceiling light.  So i knew i needed aid and asked my brother in law.  We were able to practise everything in a weekend.  That included lights, wire and switches in the unfinished room, so outlets, wire, lights and switches in the finished side of the basement.

Here'south running wires from the breaker box, thru the joists, then downwards into the walls.

The start thing you accept to do is decide how everything will be continued, pregnant what lines will supply power to what things.  One tip i got was never have more than 9 "things" per line.  Meaning no more than nine lights or 9 outlet per circuit billow.  Otherwise it might be overloaded and trip the circuit breaker.

And then we decided to do all the recessed lights on 1 circuit breaker and all the outlets on the other.  There was already a calorie-free that worked on a iii-way switch at the tiptop and bottom of the stairs.  For that we just cut the wire to the switch and ran it to the new switch location.  Then we split the wire to feed the 2 new lights.

Another view of the lights subsequently i painted the ceiling black.  I painted the lights black too and that helped to blend in.

Next we hung the recessed lights by nailing it to the ceiling joists.  And so we nailed the plastic outlet boxes to the studs where we wanted the outlets to get.

Here'south wiring the switch for the basement lights.  1 wire for one one-half of the basement and ane wire for the 3-way lights coming down the stairs.

Then we went to the circuit breaker box, turn off the principal breaker, and installed 2 new circuit breakers.  From each breaker we ran lines to the finished basement area.

Determine how much wire y'all need, and so double it.  I figured that i needed about 200' of wire, we needed about 400'.  The wire comes in 250' rolls which aren't too expensive.  We bought fourteen-2 wire for everything except the three-way switch, we needed 15 feet of 14-3 wire.  The 14 represents the gauge (thickness) of the wire and the ii represents the number of wires in the sleeve (non including the ground wire).  It took a long time drilling 3/4" holes in the stud walls and ceiling joists and figuring out the shortest route for everything.  We probably could accept installed 8 or ten recessed lights but since the contractors box only included 6 lights, that'southward what i went with.  It'southward a fiddling bit dark down there with the BR30 bulbs.

Another tip my blood brother in law said to exercise was to not just run the wires to the outlets, just to install "hog-tails".  That way if one of the outlets is bad or wired incorrectly the rest will still work.  If yous wire 1 in and 1 out so if one outlet is bad, they all stop working.  Also i decided to apply the fancy light switches with the dimmer on the side.  I thought we would scout movies down there and desire information technology dimmed, just so far we oasis't really needed it.

The difficult parts of all the electrical wiring was figuring out the three-way switch and routing all the wires.  Other than that, it wasn't super complicated.

INSULATION

Once the wires were in, it was time for wall insulation.  Each roll will cover something similar forty sq.ft. of infinite (it says on the ringlet).  We needed eleven rolls, but information technology merely cost like $12 per scroll.  We stapled the paper tabs to the studs and had to cut a slit for electrical wires to pass without being pushed.  Putting upwardly insulation is pretty easy, simply you are itchy afterwords.

DRYWALL

After insulation information technology was time for drywall.  Putting up drywall isn't too difficult, simply it's a pain.  We decided that the easiest thing would exist to run the boards vertically.  That fashion nosotros would only have 1 seam running vertically every four'.  Too we only had to cut off 12" from the top of each board (eight' long boards, 7' ceilings).

This took hours and days and weeks.

Again it would have gone faster had we known what nosotros were doing, but the learning curve meant for actress mudding and sanding.

Putting upwardly the drywall isn't too difficult, only measuring, cutting with a utility knife and big T-square, then screwing it to the wall.  Adjacent you nail upwardly the corner guards with the air nailer.

The hard office comes with taping and mudding.  It always takes me several days of mudding and sanding, so more mud so more than sanding.  It's 1 of those things that you are terrible at outset, then slowly get ameliorate and better.  Just remember that the more than mud you put on ways the more sanding y'all demand to exercise.  Although having the sanding pad on a long pole made sanding a lot easier.

PAINT

With the drywall done information technology was time for painting.  We decided to paint the ceiling black.  Nosotros did this for a couple reasons.  First, because our ceiling height was only 7'.  If nosotros did a drop ceiling or drywall on the ceiling it would take made the room look pocket-sized and cramped.  The black ceiling merely makes it look higher.  Second we idea that painting would exist a lot easier and expect better.

I borrowed my brother in police force's heavy duty paint sprayer.  It was a real nice i that had tons of pressure.  It took a while to setup and prime the pump but once it started going it was neat.  That sprayer was able to get through a gallon of pigment in a couple of minutes.  Here's what i looked like afterward i was all washed.

And hither's what i looked like when i was done.  The paint suit started out beingness white.

Once again, similar the electrical wire, figure out how much yous think you need, then double it.  Especially with the ceiling joists, it's not simply a flat wall, there were lots of corners and sides.  I thought that i would only need ii or 3 cans, i ended up needing 5.

Just painted over the smoke alarm, again it just blended in and no one notices it.

I bought paint that was pre-mixed blackness, and cost $18.

Side by side nosotros primed the walls with white primer.  That'south important considering the drywall seems to suck up the kickoff coat of paint.  Then just use the cheap $9 primer for that and not the $35 tin can of paint.

Later on primer we painted the walls with the greenish pigment nosotros chose.

CARPET

A year ago nosotros had our dining room and living room carpeted from Home Depot.  Nosotros got a proficient bargain, information technology was on sale, and since it was over a certain square footage, install was free.  This time we merely had about 500 sq.ft. then we had to pay for the install.  We bought the cheap 40 cent padding but got slightly better $2.00 carpet.

Here was that carpet pad from a year ago.

And also here'southward a link to that blog, which goes into more detail about the carpet and cost.  Plus it has that Lowe'due south coupon generator code for getting 10% off your total purchase.

I matter we did to salve money was SAY that we were going to practise the stairs ourselves.  Domicile Depot charges like $7 or $12 per stair.  That was going to be another $150.

The people who do the install are not Dwelling Depot employees, they are a separate carpet company, where Home Depot is the middle man.  And so what we did was inquire the installers, "hey if nosotros requite you $50 would you carpet the stairs for us?"  They said "ya for sure".  I guess they only become paid $3 or $4 to do the stairs, and then we saved coin and they made money.

Some other matter was we thought that we had to practise the tack strip ourselves.  But they charged less than $1.00 per pes so we had them practise it.  And that was the hardest part i think, having to drill into the physical.

TRIM

With the carpet done it really started to look like a finished room.  Then we got started putting up all the trim, baseboard, and crown molding.  I started with the baseboard considering i knew that i could do that speedily.  I've installed baseboard in several rooms in the house.  It's way way easier to use a good miter saw and air smash guns.  Without that it would exist difficult.

Here's a link to a weblog mail i wrote about how to easily install baseboard.

Over again, y'all need to have a practiced miter saw, air tank and nail guns.

Set to install doors.

And so i started with the crown molding.  I know it sounds a niggling weird putting upwards crown molding when there isn't any ceiling boards, but it turned out groovy.  The crown molding hid the rough drywall border and really made the room look taller.  It somehow tricks the eyes and provides a break between the green walls and black ceiling.

Then i installed the framing around the two doors.  This was a little tricky, i had to rip downward the peak width to fit it in beneath the crown molding.

I did take to cut a bit off the lesser of each door because of the long carpet and thick pad.

And information technology was a bit screwy at the acme where i had to trim some off the door trim because at that place wasn't enough room for the frame and crown molding.

Then i put up trim around the glass block window, a ledger lath and so trim around the opening below the stairs.

Some stuff that seems like a big screw-upwards gets forgotten when you lot almost the end.  Plus most of the time you are the only 1 that notices modest imperfections, like drinking glass block that isn't perfectly level.

For all of these we bought the 100' contractors packs.  They were a lot cheaper then ownership private lengths of boards.

After that we hung the TV on the wall with the stand.  The cool thing about that is i put an outlet box on the wall and another box to run the wires.  That way you didn't see any wires hanging down.

Then we moved in all the furniture.  That was a bit of a mistake because all piece of work stopped afterward that.  Information technology'southward been over a  yr and we still oasis't done lots of things.  We nevertheless accept to spackle nail holes on the trim, attach trim under the stairs, build shelves under the stairs, and build a door to access the water meter and h2o shut off.  I'thousand sure it's something we will wait to do until we sell the house.

I drew it upwards on AutoCad and then that i could get the spacing to look right.  You tin can encounter here that i took a flick, inserted the picture to calibration in AutoCad, then drew over-elevation of the picture.

And over again i did the same thing hither for the shelves i was going to build under the stairs.  Just this cartoon wasn't to scale, just a concept to see if i would like the box and triangle design layout.

I saw a few drawings like this for my inspiration.  Nothing fancy, but able to hold a lot of kids toys and things.

I likewise built a wood frame then that nosotros could setup the baby gate to keep him from escaping upwardly the stairs.

Our product tester at work.

Another thing i all the same accept to practice is staple upwards thick felt/insulation betwixt the joists on the unfinished side of the basement.  Since that's my workshop, the felt would cutting down on noise and sawdust blowing over to the finished side.  Also i bought some thin ane/viii" hardboard that i wanted to put on the back side of the stud wall.  That hasn't happened.  And equally you can come across the shelves under the stairs didn't happen either, just a big surface area to throw stuff.

But we are super happy with how information technology all turned out.  Information technology's go a playroom for our son and all the kids that come up over.And for less that $three,000 we have another 500 sq.ft. of space in our house.  Information technology's a lot of work and takes some time simply it's totally do-able for anyone.  Just invite your friends over to assist.

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