I’ve got you beat! It’s been about 9 years for me. Ugh. 😅 Although, I see rolandrivard has me beat with 14 years. I’m clearly not as advanced in my procrastination skillset as I thought. 😂
These multipart renovation series are some of my favorite things to watch on TH-cam. I really enjoyed this and the one from Modustrial Maker. I've learned so much!
The craftsmanship and the creativity involved in making that transition is just unbelievable. What a great job - hopefully 70+ years from now someone will be renovating it all over again and will notice and appreciate the attention to detail and quality.
Nothing like having guests over to motivate you to get your house in order 😂 I honestly did not expect you get as much done as you did! Amazing job as always, except maybe for the initial floor sanding 😜
I'm getting real Technology Connections vibes from the AC/Heat Pump unit from the sponsor. And that's a good thing! I'm glad to see more folks repping such wonderful options for heating and cooling.
For future reference for tiling over old concrete- use an uncoupling membrane (Ditra/ Strata-Mat/ SuperSeal). It really helps with preventing crack formation in the grout and tile - especially when you need to patch/fill areas before tiling. Great progress on the remodel!
As someone who had oak floors for 15 years, I can definitely say that they needed to be refinished and the crew did a great job. I also immediately said that the wood transition from tile to tile was a weird way to go given that you could have just angled/mounded your thinset and beveled the tile edges to make the transition but you did a great job making a finishing your wood transition. Still not sure I would have made the same choice but it doesn’t look bad which is what I was expecting.
The hardwoods are something special! I can’t believe ppl would cover that up 🤦🏻♀️ but you’ve done that little house justice and I can’t wait for the next! The tile looks great, of course my favorite part besides seeing your floors transform was making the custom transition piece from tile to hardwood. Very informative as always! I look forward to all the custom builds
At one point in time wood floors were the cheep option, and carpet was the expensive option. Lots of housing stock this age would have had been built with hardwood floors that were then upgraded to carpet.
My parents bought their house in the 70s and it was all carpet too. Sometime mid 80s they decided to get rid of the carpet and found a beautiful mahogany parquet floor underneath.
That oddly shaped door transition piece is the only project I've ever seen on this channel that I've done a version of! Mine sucked compared to yours. Everything looks great
Couple things I went through renovating my 1948 house in Oregon. I did a 18k unit upstairs in our house as well. I also wall mounted it outside at first and about a year later put it on the ground outside as the condenser would straight up vibrate the whole house when running ac or heat (heat was worse) was super annoying as it was a really low freq vibration maybe 50hz Lastly I have noticed that mine is probably short cycling in the summer when running ac and sometimes causing more humid problems than removing humidity. So just keep an eye on humidity! Oh also clean the fan fins yearly they will get moldy…fun stuff…
My favorite part of this video? Honestly, it's that you're wearing proper knee-pads while doing the tile work. I can't even tell you how many maker-channel things I see (cough cough laura kampf cough cough) where somebody is down on their knees for hours on a hard surface, and I know what kind of damage that does. Good on ya for using the IMO unsung hero of the PPE world.
You are such an inspiration! Been following for years and its amazing to see your growth! I love the remodel, been getting excited about buying a house and working on some projects of my own! You are the best!!!
Very nice. I am going to be refinishing (again) my kitchen countertops week after next. Whew! I love that tint you made to match the tile. Great color!
I like to tile the whole kitchen / bathroom floor in case any changes are made later on. I feel like the time saved not fitting tile more than makes up for the added material cost.
Amazing, Ishitani Furniture and you launched videos using the same technique days apart (although they used rusty nails besides the wool, and left it for way longer).
Thanks for a lovely video. I enjoyed watching the floor work as last week, and the week before I had this done to my house, something very similar, and I was unable to see the work being done.
The self leveling system is very easy, but you need at least 2 wedges on each side. You only did 1 in the middle of some sides and that's why some tiles are not level to each other. Like on the transition where you put the wood transition piece. You can see that the right tile is slightly above the left tile on the wood side.
It's so good to have a deadline. and I echo the comment by @ryebread6790 - the transition piece is superb. I wonder if in a hundred years from now when someone decides to do another makeover on this house, they'll pull it up and say "They were TRUE craftsmen in those days...". This whole series has been fantastic. Thank you.
I’m sure the hand plane is the Veritas #4 Smooth Plane. Small chance is it the Veritas #4 1/2 Smoothing Plane. Huge fan of Veritas tools. Beautiful work. Amazing custom kitchen and surrounding rooms.
Great sponsor for this one, thanks for going into some detail about how to install the mini split, I've seen them sponsor other people but not shown nearly as much useful information about it.
Looks great! The kitchen/mudroom floor tiles came out awesome.. I’m curious about how that Mr.Cool mini split system does… I’ve been on a serious hunt the last couple months doing research and shopping… would love one for my shop..
Completely forgot about the oak floors! Also, that transition is a thing of beauty - blends in really well while still creating a subtle demarcation between the spaces. Also, I always love that you show us the process :) Honestly, I wouldn’t mind hearing more about your thought process and decision-making calculus when you run into issues - another more construction-focused channel I follow (Perkins Builder Brothers) sometimes incorporates that and it is always super interesting. p.s. I know Nothing about concrete, but did you consider wet sanding for that patch of reddish concrete? Considering the asbestos thing you mentioned and the sheer dustiness, it could be appropriate?
Great video! I would have been concerned about the silica dust created while sanding down the concrete. I would have worn a full PVE suit and wet the concrete as you were grinding.
Oooo I've never seen the wedge style tile leveler. May have to look into that for when we fix the bathroom... again. We laid tile down then after figured out the joist underneath was sagging a lot, like maybe 2-3". We sistered a new joist against it, plus a few others, and it cracked the tile.
If you want to make the ebonising even darker you can add more tannin to the wood in the form of tea. Giant Catappa leaves are very hight tannin. You make the tea from those. And apply twice.
I don't know if it's just me but ever since I was a little kid I have found watching someone hand-plane something to be so satisfying! And there are so few people that actually use them anymore! It makes me sad because they are such tactile tools. 😢
When prepping your kitchen for cabinets does it matter if you tile the entire floor before using a kick board or adjustable feet for your cabinets , trying to problem solve this for my kitchen my house is on a concrete slab
When I want to distress wood Micheal, I go to GNC and buy a bottle of iron pills. I crush them up and put into hot water. It works awesome. The amount of iron you use determines the look. I’ve matched up weather warn wood after I’ve cut it down and you can’t tell difference after I brushed on and let dry
Woodworkers darken wood by reacting iron in solution with tannins in the wood to form blue-black phenolate complexes, a process called ebonizing. According to the literature, the darkness and color are controlled by the tannin concentration (higher, darker) and the counterion of iron (acetate, darker). By combining steel wool (iron ions) with vinegar (acetate ions), you create the darkest phenolate complexes even with low iron (II) acetate concentrations.
I think the dye in the concrete is the same or equivalent to the red Frank Lloyd Wright used in his concrete pads. It’s dyed through. I forget the company name.
Don’t they sell a dimpled schluter mat for isolating the concrete from the tile work so it doesn’t crack? Like an isolation membrane, I feel like the tile will crack within a year or two
Hey Michael, I had no idea your past few videos had anything to do with this renovation. I suggest titling your videos a bit more specifically so it's easier to follow this project.
I have the same mix of mostly red oak and some white oak in my living room, laid down in 1944. And then I didn't know that and ordered white oak to flow into the remodeled dining room, and they didn't match. So they had to come back out and basically whitewash the living room so now it all looks like white oak. That was a fun $4000 mistake.
For the price to rent a sander and DIY'it, you will be much happier with the finish if you hire someone with experience, skill, and their own equipment. The difference in cost shouldn't be great, but the results, ahh, that is worth it!
Bice job but at some point that door transition is going to need a touch up. It's super high traffic. I'm worried what you'll do about color then. A contrast may have been nice there anyways?
You get an 1/8” uncoupling with roll on stuff. Not as good as the orange stuff but better than nothing and doesn’t raise the height. Every grout manufacturer makes a version you can use
who says not to install tile directly to concrete? that's literally what backer board is supposed to mimic. If you're worried about the concrete shifting than use the schluter membrane.
I find on big tiles it gets really messy. I did back butter corner tiles and smaller cut tiles. (I’m also not a tile expert, so I could be doing it wrong 😂)
Nooo! Not fiber glass. It's so bad to work with. Rockwool, cellulose or even whool insulation is better then fiber glass. You should also have insulated the top of the attic. You put on a membrane on the celingand then you spray the insulation in the cavity. Having an insulated attic space is so much better. Especially the times when you need to work up there pulling wires for electrical or networking or just as storage for using once a year stuff etc. It also makes your heating more efficient since it will be more insulated from the cold during winter etc.
Lots of options were considered. Most others were super cost prohibitive. Insulating the top of the roof changes the ventilation and there’s a lot that needs to be done to make that work.
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the transition piece was SO impressive, wow
I literally came to the comments to say the same thing. like holy cow wow!
Dude. That transition alone is enough of a standing ovation. Incredible work on that. And everything.
Love when they hit you with the "Who the hell worked on this" and you're just like " 🙂"
Amazing as usual Michael! I have the current record for leaving baseboards removed, which is 6 years. I'll get them back in any day though... 🙄
Hahaha!
I just put 3/4 of mine in my mudroom after 4 year's 😂
You gotta pump those numbers up. Those are rookie numbers
Too true. I'm at 14 years and figure I'll just wait till next time the flooring needs to get replaced or we move out. Lol
I’ve got you beat! It’s been about 9 years for me. Ugh. 😅 Although, I see rolandrivard has me beat with 14 years. I’m clearly not as advanced in my procrastination skillset as I thought. 😂
These multipart renovation series are some of my favorite things to watch on TH-cam. I really enjoyed this and the one from Modustrial Maker.
I've learned so much!
Me too! I also enjoy the scott brown carpentry
I’ll add Johnny Brooke (crafted workshop) and Perkins builder brothers to the list😊
The craftsmanship and the creativity involved in making that transition is just unbelievable. What a great job - hopefully 70+ years from now someone will be renovating it all over again and will notice and appreciate the attention to detail and quality.
Nothing a visitor coming to get things done! 😂
Truth!!
Could have been worse; a mother-in-law visit combines motivation and inspection all in one!
😂😂 this. I was just about to say it
Isn’t amazing how a deadline helps focus on the task at hand? I can really procrastinate so setting deadlines really helps me get things done
Absolutely awed by the process and result of those ebonized transition strips.
25:30 "nothing left to do but to do it" i should hold onto that one. that's a good mantra
Man, I am so happy you kept those wood floors. Exceptional work by the guys, and a great result.
The refinished wood floors are stunning. Absolute work of art.
Nothing like having guests over to motivate you to get your house in order 😂
I honestly did not expect you get as much done as you did! Amazing job as always, except maybe for the initial floor sanding 😜
I'm getting real Technology Connections vibes from the AC/Heat Pump unit from the sponsor. And that's a good thing! I'm glad to see more folks repping such wonderful options for heating and cooling.
For future reference for tiling over old concrete- use an uncoupling membrane (Ditra/ Strata-Mat/ SuperSeal). It really helps with preventing crack formation in the grout and tile - especially when you need to patch/fill areas before tiling. Great progress on the remodel!
Love the faux slate tile ! The options for tile these days is amazing - totally agree on the grout colour
RAMBOARD!! heck yeah! Here in Greer, SC, my wife manages just about everything about producing and shipping that stuff across the planet.
As someone who had oak floors for 15 years, I can definitely say that they needed to be refinished and the crew did a great job. I also immediately said that the wood transition from tile to tile was a weird way to go given that you could have just angled/mounded your thinset and beveled the tile edges to make the transition but you did a great job making a finishing your wood transition. Still not sure I would have made the same choice but it doesn’t look bad which is what I was expecting.
The hardwoods are something special! I can’t believe ppl would cover that up 🤦🏻♀️ but you’ve done that little house justice and I can’t wait for the next! The tile looks great, of course my favorite part besides seeing your floors transform was making the custom transition piece from tile to hardwood. Very informative as always! I look forward to all the custom builds
At one point in time wood floors were the cheep option, and carpet was the expensive option. Lots of housing stock this age would have had been built with hardwood floors that were then upgraded to carpet.
My parents bought their house in the 70s and it was all carpet too. Sometime mid 80s they decided to get rid of the carpet and found a beautiful mahogany parquet floor underneath.
That oddly shaped door transition piece is the only project I've ever seen on this channel that I've done a version of! Mine sucked compared to yours. Everything looks great
Couple things I went through renovating my 1948 house in Oregon. I did a 18k unit upstairs in our house as well. I also wall mounted it outside at first and about a year later put it on the ground outside as the condenser would straight up vibrate the whole house when running ac or heat (heat was worse) was super annoying as it was a really low freq vibration maybe 50hz
Lastly I have noticed that mine is probably short cycling in the summer when running ac and sometimes causing more humid problems than removing humidity. So just keep an eye on humidity! Oh also clean the fan fins yearly they will get moldy…fun stuff…
My favorite part of this video? Honestly, it's that you're wearing proper knee-pads while doing the tile work. I can't even tell you how many maker-channel things I see (cough cough laura kampf cough cough) where somebody is down on their knees for hours on a hard surface, and I know what kind of damage that does. Good on ya for using the IMO unsung hero of the PPE world.
Looking so good! Good call on hiring out the floor sanding 😂
We did our best 😂
Spectacular! Congrats on all this. Black grout = chef's kiss perfection!
My favorite home reno component name: Schluter Strip. Another awesome video!
You are such an inspiration! Been following for years and its amazing to see your growth! I love the remodel, been getting excited about buying a house and working on some projects of my own! You are the best!!!
Very nice. I am going to be refinishing (again) my kitchen countertops week after next. Whew! I love that tint you made to match the tile. Great color!
That transition step was Amazing work Michael! Really nice touch
That wood transition is sick. Best part of the video.
That transition is just amazing! Wow.
I like to tile the whole kitchen / bathroom floor in case any changes are made later on. I feel like the time saved not fitting tile more than makes up for the added material cost.
Amazing, Ishitani Furniture and you launched videos using the same technique days apart (although they used rusty nails besides the wool, and left it for way longer).
Love the Call Me Maybe channel!!!! Can't wait to see your vid! Great job on the house!!!
Fantastic work, Michael! Really well done! 😃
The place is looking fantastic!
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
Interessting to see the insulation with fiberglas. In Germany we do that with Stuff made from old Newspapers...
Nice Video. Congratulations!
Thanks for a lovely video. I enjoyed watching the floor work as last week, and the week before I had this done to my house, something very similar, and I was unable to see the work being done.
The self leveling system is very easy, but you need at least 2 wedges on each side. You only did 1 in the middle of some sides and that's why some tiles are not level to each other. Like on the transition where you put the wood transition piece. You can see that the right tile is slightly above the left tile on the wood side.
Such excellent work Michael. You must be thrilled to be so far on. Oooh, she looking Good!
This turned out incredible!!!! I would love to see a video of you building something and only using hand tools!
It's so good to have a deadline. and I echo the comment by @ryebread6790 - the transition piece is superb. I wonder if in a hundred years from now when someone decides to do another makeover on this house, they'll pull it up and say "They were TRUE craftsmen in those days...". This whole series has been fantastic. Thank you.
I’m sure the hand plane is the Veritas #4 Smooth Plane. Small chance is it the Veritas #4 1/2 Smoothing Plane. Huge fan of Veritas tools. Beautiful work. Amazing custom kitchen and surrounding rooms.
So, when's the sauna build planned?
Awesome job, Michael!
Impressive work, great results!
Great sponsor for this one, thanks for going into some detail about how to install the mini split, I've seen them sponsor other people but not shown nearly as much useful information about it.
Looks great!
The kitchen/mudroom floor tiles came out awesome..
I’m curious about how that Mr.Cool mini split system does… I’ve been on a serious hunt the last couple months doing research and shopping… would love one for my shop..
Completely forgot about the oak floors! Also, that transition is a thing of beauty - blends in really well while still creating a subtle demarcation between the spaces.
Also, I always love that you show us the process :) Honestly, I wouldn’t mind hearing more about your thought process and decision-making calculus when you run into issues - another more construction-focused channel I follow (Perkins Builder Brothers) sometimes incorporates that and it is always super interesting.
p.s. I know Nothing about concrete, but did you consider wet sanding for that patch of reddish concrete? Considering the asbestos thing you mentioned and the sheer dustiness, it could be appropriate?
The threshold turned out absolutely beautifully. 👍🏼
Great video! I would have been concerned about the silica dust created while sanding down the concrete. I would have worn a full PVE suit and wet the concrete as you were grinding.
I wonder if those tile thingys would work on wall tile? Great series, loving it.
Michael, that is one awesome looking transition man.
Terrific job on the oak transition piece. Really well done in all respects.
Oooo I've never seen the wedge style tile leveler. May have to look into that for when we fix the bathroom... again. We laid tile down then after figured out the joist underneath was sagging a lot, like maybe 2-3". We sistered a new joist against it, plus a few others, and it cracked the tile.
Get the reusable one with metal pins instead.
If you want to make the ebonising even darker you can add more tannin to the wood in the form of tea. Giant Catappa leaves are very hight tannin. You make the tea from those. And apply twice.
A sculptor building a transition for his own house will have the best one on the planet!
I don't know if it's just me but ever since I was a little kid I have found watching someone hand-plane something to be so satisfying! And there are so few people that actually use them anymore! It makes me sad because they are such tactile tools. 😢
Super impressive!
When prepping your kitchen for cabinets does it matter if you tile the entire floor before using a kick board or adjustable feet for your cabinets , trying to problem solve this for my kitchen my house is on a concrete slab
7:57 "it'll help asbestos it can" nice unintentional (?) pun!
Ha! I love that Mike called you out. Bahahahaha! Also, I definitely recommend a sauna for up here in the PNW.
On the concrete cracks, there is a concrete crack suppression kit that you can use for your project in the future.
the tile self leveler system has existed for well over a decade now, I remember seeing it used on Holmes on Homes back in the early/mid 2010's
There's a better one which is reusable and not much more expensive.
When I want to distress wood Micheal, I go to GNC and buy a bottle of iron pills. I crush them up and put into hot water. It works awesome. The amount of iron you use determines the look. I’ve matched up weather warn wood after I’ve cut it down and you can’t tell difference after I brushed on and let dry
that transition would have been dope as an end-grain plywood piece
I have a Mr Cool in my barn and it’s the best!
Before you do the sauna, double glaze those windows? ;)
Woodworkers darken wood by reacting iron in solution with tannins in the wood to form blue-black phenolate complexes, a process called ebonizing. According to the literature, the darkness and color are controlled by the tannin concentration (higher, darker) and the counterion of iron (acetate, darker). By combining steel wool (iron ions) with vinegar (acetate ions), you create the darkest phenolate complexes even with low iron (II) acetate concentrations.
It's basically the same principle as iron gall ink, where you combine iron salts with tannic acid to get blue-black ink.
I think the dye in the concrete is the same or equivalent to the red Frank Lloyd Wright used in his concrete pads. It’s dyed through. I forget the company name.
Interesting!
Классная работа!!!
Don’t they sell a dimpled schluter mat for isolating the concrete from the tile work so it doesn’t crack? Like an isolation membrane, I feel like the tile will crack within a year or two
Yup, uncoupling membrane.
great videos
That push block has seen some shit 😂
Hey Michael, I had no idea your past few videos had anything to do with this renovation. I suggest titling your videos a bit more specifically so it's easier to follow this project.
27:30 don’t worry, bros gonna be so high from the smell of the poly that he won’t even notice the baseboards are missing after a few hours.
I’d call it the Tronix room for all the electronic projects.
If anyone's looking for it, it's Call Me Maibe. Michael, consider putting a link in the description? If you did, sorry i missed it.
I put a link in the video. It’s now added to the description. Thanks for letting me know it was missing 🙌
I'm remodeling my 1939 house and that faux slate might work for me. Is it ceramic or porcelain?
Nice! I got it from Home Depot. I think it’s ceramic but rated for flooring. Made by Daltile
"I even took the baseboards off for you because I know you hate baseboards" lol
ok, that ad was pretty adorable.
I have the same mix of mostly red oak and some white oak in my living room, laid down in 1944. And then I didn't know that and ordered white oak to flow into the remodeled dining room, and they didn't match. So they had to come back out and basically whitewash the living room so now it all looks like white oak. That was a fun $4000 mistake.
I've tiled my kitchen... that was a lot of work.
That's a lot to tackle in 3 weeks 😮💨
For the price to rent a sander and DIY'it, you will be much happier with the finish if you hire someone with experience, skill, and their own equipment. The difference in cost shouldn't be great, but the results, ahh, that is worth it!
Justin time!
Bice job but at some point that door transition is going to need a touch up. It's super high traffic. I'm worried what you'll do about color then. A contrast may have been nice there anyways?
I suppose this isn’t quite as deadly as restoring and selling an airplane in two weeks, so I’m cautiously keen on this.
You should have used schluter ditra to uncouple the tile from the cement. That would have raised it higher too.
I’ve heard that’s good stuff, but I didn’t want it too tall
You get an 1/8” uncoupling with roll on stuff. Not as good as the orange stuff but better than nothing and doesn’t raise the height. Every grout manufacturer makes a version you can use
who says not to install tile directly to concrete? that's literally what backer board is supposed to mimic. If you're worried about the concrete shifting than use the schluter membrane.
It’s mostly because it was polished concrete. I had to scuff it to give it something to bond to
Is there a reason you didn’t back-butter your tiles?
I find on big tiles it gets really messy. I did back butter corner tiles and smaller cut tiles. (I’m also not a tile expert, so I could be doing it wrong 😂)
What is back butter?
I was going to say the save thing. He'll know why back buttering is important the first time they drop a plate or glass.
@@triciac.5078 it’s when you apply the tile adhesive to the back of the tile as as the floor. I understand that it helps the tile adhere better.
Especially on large format tiles
Nooo! Not fiber glass. It's so bad to work with. Rockwool, cellulose or even whool insulation is better then fiber glass. You should also have insulated the top of the attic. You put on a membrane on the celingand then you spray the insulation in the cavity. Having an insulated attic space is so much better. Especially the times when you need to work up there pulling wires for electrical or networking or just as storage for using once a year stuff etc. It also makes your heating more efficient since it will be more insulated from the cold during winter etc.
Lots of options were considered. Most others were super cost prohibitive. Insulating the top of the roof changes the ventilation and there’s a lot that needs to be done to make that work.
better to butter the back of tiles with thinnest
You didn't compensate for the added height of your tile?? Your appliances are going to be an issue.
Hopefully, back to wood soon.
I think its because my weird brain likes contrast, but i would have just oiled/sealed the transition and left it looking like wood.
Hi will you be living in your house or renting out love the content
We’ll be living there and keeping the upstairs as Ashley’s office/guest room
What is Justin's channel?
Call Me Mabie
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RRRR I HATE baseboards!!!!
No hearing protection? Come on son