Maintenance + Renovation

 

Meticulously maintained, the current owners have provided their chronology of home updates, repairs and improvements. Plans of the basement build-out, showing future bathroom layout below.

 

 

2525 SE Lincoln St. - Renovation chronology

  • 2006 - Purchased 

    • Existing upgrade - company I bought it from “finished” the formerly unfinished attic space

    • Existing upgrade - they also did blown-in insulation from the exterior of the house.  This was confirmed during the 2017 exterior house painting. Patched holes were clearly visible on the exterior of the home.  Pics are available of this.  

    • Existing upgrade - they replaced the roof before my purchase


  • 2006 - ADT home security system installed, but currently inactive.  

    • All wiring is cleanly run into the basement utility room. 

    • Sensors are installed at the front and back doors, in the dining room (visual), entertainment room (sonic) and basement (visual).

  • 2006 - Sewer party line disconnected and new PVC sewer line run

    • We discovered that the next-door neighbors sewer line was attached to my home’s line.  They had to disconnect their line and run their own line to the cities line.

  • 2006 - Yard improvements

    • 3 Ginko’s planted on East side of the house through Friends of Trees

    • 2 x Japanese maples planted

    • 1 x Dogwood in the back yard 

  • 2006 - 2007 - Basement renovation/Recording studio project

    • Push out the back entrance of the house to offer better ceiling height for the stairs

    • Demo and pour a new steel rebar reinforced, level concrete slab floor in the basement

    • Perimeter drainage system installed

      • John’s Waterproofing

      • Water-guard system

      • Ultra Sump pump installed 

    • Features of the recording studio-build in the basement:

      • All walls are offset.  No right angles in the space prevent standing waves.

      • Solid-core doors with magnetic seals at the bottom

      • Double-layers of sheetrock on walls and ceiling which greatly reduces sound transmission through the walls and ceiling

      • Both the ceiling and walls are heavily insulated for further sound dampening

      • PVC conduit was run from the closet space beneath the stairs to the main room for a cable pass-through, allowing the closet space to function as a machine-room, if wanted.

      • 24-mic/lines run from the basement (DB-25 connections) to a XLR panel in the first floor dining room

      • Star-grounding electrical system installed for the new outlets in the basement for the studio

        • “a single point that connects analog and digital grounding planes so as to eliminate ground loops.”

    • New 2-Amp electrical panel installed

    • HVAC system overhauled with a new furnace, HVAC, Air-filtration system, heat pump, HVAC unit and updated ducting

    • Bamboo floors installed

    • Finished utility/laundry room created

    • A full bathroom is stubbed out behind the sheetrock walls in the basement - Shower, toilet, sink and ceiling fan  

  • 2010 - Upstairs updates:

    • Completely new sub-floor laid down

    • New laminate-hardwood floors installed

    • New Marvin double-hung windows

    • Finishing of the three crawl-spaces for storage

      • Insulation, sheetrock and 3/4” plywood floors installed

      • This created 3 large, clean spaces for storage and also stabilized temperatures in the upstairs of the house.  

  • 2011/12 

    • Hunter Douglas honeycomb heat-absorbing shades installed upstairs on all windows and skylights

    • Greatly reduced temperatures upstairs in the summer months

  • 2013 - Back-yard Landscaping Project

    • Grade of yard leveled and slanted away from the house for drainage

    • Old, existing driveway demo’d and incorporated into backyard space

      • The driveway’s sloped curb was maintained for a future driveway, if wanted 

    • New concrete wall installed on North side of house   

    • French drains installed for backyard downspouts

    • New pavers installed

    • New fence installed

    • Covered patio area

    • Small shed

    • Conduit run and electrical stubbed out to East and West side of fence

      • Never completed, but tubes are still present with pull cord. 

  • 2014 - Friends of Trees plants two new trees on South-side of house strip - Maples?

  • 2015 - Front-yard Landscaping Project

    • Entire sloped yard redone.  

    • 3 new dogwoods planted

  • 2015 - New washer/dryer installed

  • 2017 - Exterior house re-painting

    • A complete lead abatement process was done

    • The house was scraped down to bare wood and freshly painted

  • 2018 - Sidewalk/driveway curb concrete cleanup

  • 2018 - Fence partially replaced and stained

  • 2018 - Replaced entire front porch railing

  • 2019 - Roof cleaned, gutters cleaned and treated with anti-moss growth chemical - MossBusters

  • 2019 - New refrigerator installed

  • 2020 - John’s Waterproofing service

    • New battery installed and WaterGuard system serviced

    • System is working as expected

  • 2020 - Interior walls and ceilings repainted by Abalone Paint

  • 2020 - Main level floors refinished


General notes:

  • HVAC serviced twice a year by Rose City Heating and Cooling

    • “Comfort Club members”

Basement Recording Studio / Future Bath Layout

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