12 November 2017
We've made more good progress on the house, despite two flat tires on two different cars. This is what can happen when you don't top dress your crush-and-run.
We kept working on the mechanical room.
We replaced the flashing around the roof. We don't have a sheet metal brake. I tried bending the flashing over some lumber lying on the floor but that didn't work well at all. Then I had a light bulb moment and used the top rail of one of our trailers along with half of an old extension ladder and a couple clamps. This worked perfectly!
And the mechanical room is done, with it's original door!
Then we turned our attention inside and started framing the walls in our four bathroom areas. First we had to sister some 2x10's to the 2x6's that originally supported the upstairs bathrooms.
Then we framed in the walls for the water closet. We made the wall on the right side out of 2x6's to accommodate the 3" drain pipe we need for the bathroom above this one.
Then we framed in for the shower. We added 2x6's at 36" off the floor around the shower walls for adding grab bars later. This will be the bathroom for a first floor master suite.
Next we framed in for the water closet on the second floor that will be the jack-n-jill bathroom for upstairs. The horizontal bracing will support the water pipes for the faucet and shower head for a bath tub to the left.
For most of this framing we used full dimension 2x4's that we have salvaged or 2x6's that we ripped down to 4" wide. We did this to keep the visual thickness of the walls consistent with the rest of the house.
This room we are converting to a bathroom closet combination to create an upstairs master suite.
We also framed in for the half bath down off the kitchen. And then we started running PVC for all our new drain and vent pipes.
When we were framing for this half bath, we found a short note from the past. "This Day June (?) 6, 1909 J.W. Welborne". We think that this sets the time in the evolution of the house when part of the back side porch was enclosed to make a pantry and storage room.
PVC primer and cement, good stuff! Uh... be sure to use these products in well ventilated areas. ;-)
In order to run some of these drain pipes, we had to open up the ceiling below this room. We are also using a closet just to the left on the first floor to run some of the mechanicals.
We're trying to be very careful about NOT notching any floor joists. The holes for this pipe are 2" in diameter and are no closer than 2" to the top or bottom edges of the 2x10 joists.
AND! we removed what was left of a very rotted window frame in the dining room and made a new frame from scratch. The sashes are in good shape.
Wow! We've gotten a lot done! And I should probably add new blog posts more often.
More progress coming soon!
We've made more good progress on the house, despite two flat tires on two different cars. This is what can happen when you don't top dress your crush-and-run.
We kept working on the mechanical room.
We replaced the flashing around the roof. We don't have a sheet metal brake. I tried bending the flashing over some lumber lying on the floor but that didn't work well at all. Then I had a light bulb moment and used the top rail of one of our trailers along with half of an old extension ladder and a couple clamps. This worked perfectly!
And the mechanical room is done, with it's original door!
Then we turned our attention inside and started framing the walls in our four bathroom areas. First we had to sister some 2x10's to the 2x6's that originally supported the upstairs bathrooms.
Then we framed in the walls for the water closet. We made the wall on the right side out of 2x6's to accommodate the 3" drain pipe we need for the bathroom above this one.
Then we framed in for the shower. We added 2x6's at 36" off the floor around the shower walls for adding grab bars later. This will be the bathroom for a first floor master suite.
Next we framed in for the water closet on the second floor that will be the jack-n-jill bathroom for upstairs. The horizontal bracing will support the water pipes for the faucet and shower head for a bath tub to the left.
For most of this framing we used full dimension 2x4's that we have salvaged or 2x6's that we ripped down to 4" wide. We did this to keep the visual thickness of the walls consistent with the rest of the house.
This room we are converting to a bathroom closet combination to create an upstairs master suite.
We also framed in for the half bath down off the kitchen. And then we started running PVC for all our new drain and vent pipes.
When we were framing for this half bath, we found a short note from the past. "This Day June (?) 6, 1909 J.W. Welborne". We think that this sets the time in the evolution of the house when part of the back side porch was enclosed to make a pantry and storage room.
PVC primer and cement, good stuff! Uh... be sure to use these products in well ventilated areas. ;-)
In order to run some of these drain pipes, we had to open up the ceiling below this room. We are also using a closet just to the left on the first floor to run some of the mechanicals.
We're trying to be very careful about NOT notching any floor joists. The holes for this pipe are 2" in diameter and are no closer than 2" to the top or bottom edges of the 2x10 joists.
AND! we removed what was left of a very rotted window frame in the dining room and made a new frame from scratch. The sashes are in good shape.
Wow! We've gotten a lot done! And I should probably add new blog posts more often.
More progress coming soon!
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