Full Home Remodeling for Older Hawthorne Houses
Older Hawthorne homes remodeled throughout, with hardwood under old carpet checked and protected, new wiring and pipe, and original trim and doors kept.
Can the oak floor under this carpet be saved? In an older Hawthorne house we answer by lifting a floor register or a threshold, where the cut edge shows how much wood sits above the tongue. Enough thickness means the boards can be refinished when the remodel is done, and the plan then works around them, with floor protection laid down before any wall is opened.
Protecting a floor through a remodel
A floor worth keeping is covered with a breathable board taped at the joints, and the paths that carts and ladders take are doubled up. Where a wall comes out, the gap in the boards is filled with salvaged pieces from a closet or with new oak woven in, so the patch does not read as a straight line. Plumbing that runs through the floor is planned from the crawlspace first, so holes land where cabinets will cover them. Refinishing waits until the last trade has packed up and left.
The rest of the first walk-through
The same visit covers the systems behind the walls. We check galvanized supply lines for weak flow, read the panel label and breaker sizes, and look for live knob-and-tube with a tester. Windows, doors and casings are judged one by one for whether they stay. The City of Hawthorne handles plan review, and its inspector sees the rough work before walls close. Gardena, Inglewood and El Segundo homes get the same walk-through, and the written scope sorts every part of the house into kept, repaired or replaced.
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Hardwood with enough wood above the tongue, plaster that is firmly keyed, solid panel doors and the casings around them are worth the trouble. Original windows stay when their frames are dry, with new glazing and weatherstripping, and the scope gives a reason for each kept piece.
Rooms are opened in groups and closed off with plastic, while a bath and a kitchen counter stay running. Floors in the rooms you use are covered from the start. Wiring and plumbing in each group are inspected before the walls close, and the schedule shows which rooms are out and for how long.
Ahead of demolition, paint chips, plaster and any old floor tile or mastic are lab-tested for lead and asbestos. We then confirm whether old wiring is live, check outlets for a ground, measure water flow at the farthest tap and film the sewer line out to the street.
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