I’m going to be gutting a small home over the next year. This coming month, we are going to be redoing the deck and installing concrete. Meanwhile, I’ll hire someone to put in hydronic radiant heating and cooling.
After that, I’ll probably demo over a weekend and purchase cabinets and a monostringer staircase and a zero clearance wood burning fireplace.
While waiting on that stuff, I’ll probably hire a Native American friend and his wife to help me frame. He is an electrician as well, so I’ll probably just have to worry about plumbing and there isn’t a lot of that downstairs.
Then we will install flooring - I’m not sure what I’ll put in - Some of it depends on if the radiant heat is in the ceiling or the floors. If ceiling then I can install LVP which is easy. The only concern is if ashes fall on the LVP as I don’t know how it would hold up. Alternatively, I could install tile, but that would probably be expensive because it is on a finished basement so we would have to keep the floors from flexing and because indoor tile jobs are better left for the professionals (I’ve done a lot of outdoor tiling, though).
wish me luck