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Basement Finishing

Basement Taken Back to the Slab and Finished

The same lower floor before and after: the slab cut open for new drainage and the walls stripped back, then a finished room with closets, recessed lighting and plank flooring.

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Basement Finishing

Before and after

Before

Basement floor slab cut open in a trench with a large plastic basin standing ready, beside walls stripped back to the foundation

After

Finished basement living area looking towards the staircase, with a boxed structural column, painted walls and wood-effect plank flooringFinished basement with white six-panel closet doors, painted walls, recessed lighting and wood-effect plank flooringFinished basement showing two boxed columns, an egress window and painted walls above new plank flooringBuilt-in basement storage closet with a shelf and a window, finished with painted walls and six-panel bifold doors

What the photographs show

The problem. Finishing a basement is the easy half. The photographs from the start of this one show why the order matters — the slab had to come up for drainage and the walls had to come back to the foundation before a single stud went in.

  • Slab cut and trenched for new drainage
  • Walls stripped back to the foundation
  • New stud partitions, with floor plates set out on the slab
  • Shower tray and waste set for a new bathroom
  • Structural columns boxed in
  • Walls and trim painted, recessed lighting throughout
  • Six-panel closet doors and wood-effect plank flooring

In progress

  • Basement bathroom being framed, with timber floor plates set out on the slab, a shower tray waiting to go in and a waste connection open in the floor
    Basement bathroom being framed, with timber floor plates set out on the slab, a shower tray waiting to go in and a waste connection open in the floor
  • Timber floor plates nailed out across a bare basement slab to mark the new room layout, with a shower tray and an open drain nearby
    Timber floor plates nailed out across a bare basement slab to mark the new room layout, with a shower tray and an open drain nearby

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