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In this episode we look in on the progress of our favorite handyman as we switch from demolition and ducting to actual building!
We start with the delivery of our needed supplies.
The regular Bubba's at the Home Depot told me they would only deliver to our curbside, like in the street. I was a bit upset. The next morning I spoke with the salesman at the Pro Desk and he fixed it. Here are 42 pieces of mold resistant sheetrock where the delivery guy put them - inside the garage!
In this episode we look in on the progress of our favorite handyman as we switch from demolition and ducting to actual building! We start with the delivery of our needed supplies. The regular Bubba's at the Home Depot told me they would only deliver to our curbside, like in the street. I was a bit upset. The next morning I spoke with the salesman at the Pro Desk and he fixed it. Here are 42 pieces of mold resistant sheetrock where the delivery guy put them - inside the garage!
He also pushed in our ten foot long bundle of lumber.
Did I forget to mention that Sue came along as my handy helper? She stuck around for all of the following. Here the delivery guy got our seven Laminated Veneer Lumber (LVL) beams to the top of the driveway. Each was 1.75" by 14". There were three twenty footers, two eighteens and two tens. We used the rollycart to move them down to the garage.
And here are the three twenty footers that will replace this wall.
The others made it to the garage also. Sue handled a rope tied to the front end of a beam while I did the same at the rear. Then we just guided them down the driveway and into the house.
We also got the rest of our order - except for the paint and moldings. The boys will have to pick the color first.
We saved a bunch of wall insulation and plan on reusing it but keeping it out of the way is a pain.
Our first project was the old hall wall.
Even though I started 1" out from the top of the wall and the bottom 2x4s were directly under the upper boards, the vertical studs wouldn't clear the cement blocks in the middle of the wall. Seems the wall bows in a bit. We had to rip a half inch off of three studs to get them to fit.
Then it was on to installing the beams. First we had to build a temporary wall to hold up the floor above.
The big opening required two temporary walls, one on each side, because the floor joists didn't overlap enough. So now we had three walls when we wanted none.
After removing the old wall, we were down to two. Then we built two stands to hold the beams up as we lifted them one at a time. You can see one stand behind the step stool. To get the beams up, I lifted one end while Sue took up the slack on a rope. Tieing the rope off held one end steady while we repeated the process at the other end.
This worked really well and all three beams were soon sitting on the support boards. Trav helped on the ropes this time around.
Once on the support boards, the three beams needed to be nailed together into one five and a quarter inch thick beam. It took three rows of 16d nails spaced a foot apart on each side per the manufacturer's instructions. That's about 120 nails.
I couldn't pound 120 three and a half inch nails into those rock solid beams so the boys paid for a palm nailer that works off of an air compressor. It was loud, my wrist took a while to stop vibrating, but it got the job done.
We moved the one now solid beam up tight to the floor joists with a hydraulic jack and then built the 2x6 supporting structure under each end, per our architect's specs.
And with the temp walls gone we now have zero walls and a decent sized opening. And the house didn't fall down. Amazing.
It looks good from either end. It still feels strange walking through here without dodging a forest of 2x4s.
Next it was on to do the same thing for the wall between the old hall and bedroom. The only difference was that here we only needed one temporary wall.
After taking down the old wall, we were left with a bunch of nails sticking down that had to be dealt with.
So here I am with my trusty sawsall cutting them all off.
After some more rope work, which Sue handled all by herself, and more power nailing we have our second opening.
Then we added the third opening over where the pub will be. All the open space here gives me a different take on 'a room with a view'.
Looking good. Our next step is to replace that abomination of a 'wall' under the cold air return.
We replaced it with a rough opening for a new bathroom door including proper support for the kitchen floor joists above. I added a four foot piece of 2"x2" angle iron to support the joists above that cold air return.
Next we added the new bathroom wall. You can see that it is about three feet over from where it had been. Those marks on the floor are where I pried up the old bath floor tiles. I used my air driven chisel and saved enough of the tiles to reuse them to fill in the gap by the door where the old vanity had been.
Now we are on to framing in the walls for the long side of the room. These walls will partition off the garage (to the left) and the work room (where I'm standing) from the area for the Home Theater.
The framing above is a little more complicated but it's all straight and square, making a nice change from the existing stuff.
And when we get to the wiring there will be an accounting for this mess.
Then it was on to adding studs to the back wall. Or as we call it . . .
The Long Wall.
And here it is all finished up. We've now gotten all the framing done - except for the soffitts around the beams and plenum.
Here's a shot from the garage. The new walls create the Home Theater on the other side and a garage workshop on the right. And yes, we were able to reuse every one of the 2x4s used in the temporary walls here in the permanent build.
The view from within the room. The two studs missing by the stove are ready to go in - but we're not quite ready to give up our 'doorway'!
Looking back toward the main room. Next up are the soffitts . . .
. . . and here they start going up. It took 17 brackets to get to the point where the plenum jogs.
We used our laser level to line up all the soffit brackets.
The rest of the brackets are up including the transition across the jog in the duct work.
The final soffit work was to build out a corner in the bath to hide the furnace flue.
To end the week we loaded up the truck with 700 pounds of old wood and took off to the dump. We got most of it and will get the rest later. Then Bri called and needed tips on pulling soiled carpet off her stairs. And Trav called because the AC stopped working at the house. And Chris came over for help to activate his new expensive movie editing software only to have the online site say it had been previously activated. So how are things with you?
In this episode we look in on the progress of our favorite handyman as we switch from demolition and ducting to actual building!
We start with the delivery of our needed supplies.
The regular Bubba's at the Home Depot told me they would only deliver to our curbside, like in the street. I was a bit upset. The next morning I spoke with the salesman at the Pro Desk and he fixed it. Here are 42 pieces of mold resistant sheetrock where the delivery guy put them - inside the garage!
In this episode we look in on the progress of our favorite handyman as we switch from demolition and ducting to actual building!
We start with the delivery of our needed supplies.
The regular Bubba's at the Home Depot told me they would only deliver to our curbside, like in the street. I was a bit upset. The next morning I spoke with the salesman at the Pro Desk and he fixed it. Here are 42 pieces of mold resistant sheetrock where the delivery guy put them - inside the garage!
Did I forget to mention that Sue came along as my handy helper?
She stuck around for all of the following.
Here the delivery guy got our seven Laminated Veneer Lumber (LVL) beams to the top of the driveway. Each was 1.75" by 14". There were three twenty footers, two eighteens and two tens. We used the rollycart to move them down to the garage.
The others made it to the garage also. Sue handled a rope tied to the front end of a beam while I did the same at the rear. Then we just guided them down the driveway and into the house.
Even though I started 1" out from the top of the wall and the bottom 2x4s were directly under the upper boards, the vertical studs wouldn't clear the cement blocks in the middle of the wall. Seems the wall bows in a bit. We had to rip a half inch off of three studs to get them to fit.
The big opening required two temporary walls, one on each side, because the floor joists didn't overlap enough. So now we had three walls when we wanted none.
Then we built two stands to hold the beams up as we lifted them one at a time. You can see one stand behind the step stool.
To get the beams up, I lifted one end while Sue took up the slack on a rope. Tieing the rope off held one end steady while we repeated the process at the other end.
We moved the one now solid beam up tight to the floor joists with a hydraulic jack and then built the 2x6 supporting structure under each end, per our architect's specs.
Next it was on to do the same thing for the wall between the old hall and bedroom. The only difference was that here we only needed one temporary wall.
In this episode we look in on the progress of our favorite handyman as we switch from demolition and ducting to actual building!
We start with the delivery of our needed supplies.
The regular Bubba's at the Home Depot told me they would only deliver to our curbside, like in the street. I was a bit upset. The next morning I spoke with the salesman at the Pro Desk and he fixed it. Here are 42 pieces of mold resistant sheetrock where the delivery guy put them - inside the garage!
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