16 September 2018
Along with the installation of the Silver Glo radiant barrier in the attic, Amy re-glazed the windows that are in the three roof gables. One of them was turned inside out, and another one required some repair to the muntins, but they're all in ship shape now.
I finished up the radiant barrier installation in the attic over the bathroom addition. With the way I framed the raised roof, it made more sense here to place the barrier on the underside of the rafter ties rather than on the bottom of the rafters.
I had to figure out a way to leave some openings between this attic space and the main attic space to accommodate some HVAC duct work. I worked this out with some fancy cutting, and cheating with one piece of regular 1" thick expanded polystyrene foam board.
Next, it was finally time to tackle removing the rest of the wrap around porch floor. A fair bit of the flooring is rotted, and we needed access to the area directly under the exterior walls around the office in order to complete the skirt wall. First we took down the rest of the railings.
We kind of like the look without the railings, and we don't think they were original to the house, so they might not be coming back.
Then Amy went to work doing the demo on the porch floor.
As usual, this revealed things that we will have to fix sooner or later, like rotted wood that had been "fixed" by previous occupants.
And a brick pier that they knocked out in order to put in a vent!?!
With the flooring out of the way,
the next step was to spray all the wood structure on the bottom of the house (sill beams, floor joists, underside of all the flooring, and porch floor framing) with bora-care. I decided to do this because it's a permanent treatment against termites, powder post, beetles, and wood fungus.
After the bora-care was dry, I was able to start filling in the skirt wall. I filled in the large gaps between the stone piers with pressure treated plywood, wrapped in 6 mil plastic, mounted to pressure treated 2x4 frames.
The stone piers are obviously irregular, so I screwed 1/4" wire mesh cloth to the edges of the plywood panels to cover the gaps. I used the wire mesh to provide support for some pest control spray foam that I applied from inside the crawlspace. I'm hoping that the spray foam will stop the insects and air flow, and the wire mesh will stop the small rodents, reptiles, and amphibians.
When that was done, we started putting back some of the porch floor. Walking across a few pieces of plywood to get in and out of the house every day had gotten old. I added some support for the 22 foot span of the original 1850 porch floor joists. This part of the one of the old joists has a new 2x8 sistered on to the front of it.
Then we fabricated some tongue and groove planks from new 5/4" pressure treated deck boards using the table saw and a dado blade. We will re-use as much of the old porch flooring as we can salvage, but I wanted to use pressure treated at the front steps because it gets a lot of water splash when it rains.
My Mom stopped by for a short visit and she and Amy checked out the new porch floor. Much better!
In order to reduce the amount of water splash off the steps, I installed a diverter on the roof above each set of steps.
With hurricane Florence on the way, I decided to replace the missing siding around the bottom of the parlor and downstairs master bedroom.
We had sanded the living room floor a while back after removing a layer of newer flooring that had been installed over the old one. Amy put down a coat of linseed oil to protect the wood for now. It's in pretty rough shape (which is probably why they covered it) and we will probably end up painting it. It was originally painted grey anyway
Sam came home from school to escape Florences' impact on the coast. She brought her classmate Cat with her, so of course we put them to work refinishing a fireplace mantel, and a door, and straightening old fasteners. Nailed it!
Along with the installation of the Silver Glo radiant barrier in the attic, Amy re-glazed the windows that are in the three roof gables. One of them was turned inside out, and another one required some repair to the muntins, but they're all in ship shape now.
I finished up the radiant barrier installation in the attic over the bathroom addition. With the way I framed the raised roof, it made more sense here to place the barrier on the underside of the rafter ties rather than on the bottom of the rafters.
I had to figure out a way to leave some openings between this attic space and the main attic space to accommodate some HVAC duct work. I worked this out with some fancy cutting, and cheating with one piece of regular 1" thick expanded polystyrene foam board.
Next, it was finally time to tackle removing the rest of the wrap around porch floor. A fair bit of the flooring is rotted, and we needed access to the area directly under the exterior walls around the office in order to complete the skirt wall. First we took down the rest of the railings.
We kind of like the look without the railings, and we don't think they were original to the house, so they might not be coming back.
Then Amy went to work doing the demo on the porch floor.
As usual, this revealed things that we will have to fix sooner or later, like rotted wood that had been "fixed" by previous occupants.
And a brick pier that they knocked out in order to put in a vent!?!
With the flooring out of the way,
the next step was to spray all the wood structure on the bottom of the house (sill beams, floor joists, underside of all the flooring, and porch floor framing) with bora-care. I decided to do this because it's a permanent treatment against termites, powder post, beetles, and wood fungus.
After the bora-care was dry, I was able to start filling in the skirt wall. I filled in the large gaps between the stone piers with pressure treated plywood, wrapped in 6 mil plastic, mounted to pressure treated 2x4 frames.
The stone piers are obviously irregular, so I screwed 1/4" wire mesh cloth to the edges of the plywood panels to cover the gaps. I used the wire mesh to provide support for some pest control spray foam that I applied from inside the crawlspace. I'm hoping that the spray foam will stop the insects and air flow, and the wire mesh will stop the small rodents, reptiles, and amphibians.
When that was done, we started putting back some of the porch floor. Walking across a few pieces of plywood to get in and out of the house every day had gotten old. I added some support for the 22 foot span of the original 1850 porch floor joists. This part of the one of the old joists has a new 2x8 sistered on to the front of it.
Then we fabricated some tongue and groove planks from new 5/4" pressure treated deck boards using the table saw and a dado blade. We will re-use as much of the old porch flooring as we can salvage, but I wanted to use pressure treated at the front steps because it gets a lot of water splash when it rains.
My Mom stopped by for a short visit and she and Amy checked out the new porch floor. Much better!
In order to reduce the amount of water splash off the steps, I installed a diverter on the roof above each set of steps.
With hurricane Florence on the way, I decided to replace the missing siding around the bottom of the parlor and downstairs master bedroom.
Sam came home from school to escape Florences' impact on the coast. She brought her classmate Cat with her, so of course we put them to work refinishing a fireplace mantel, and a door, and straightening old fasteners. Nailed it!
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