Sunday, January 23, 2011
2nd Story pictures.
Doing this reminded me that I never posted pictures from the redo. Going to dump them here in no particular order.
This is the link to the youtube video I made of the stairs. It was a 'happy new baby boy' present to the wife and one of a kind.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Avkix9Cpwk
Ripping out the shelving in the old monstrous walk in/bed room.
Furing the rafters with Dad. In order to get more insulation in the rafters we added full dimension 2x2's to the bottom making the rafters a full six inches. Let us put in R19 rather than R11. This is what I didn't do in the attic space because I need the height.
What is now the craft room just after I had painted. You can see the old opening into the storage room.
Ripping out the old sheeting in the craft room, you can see the lack of insulation. Again that is the opening to the storage room.
Main bed room, after insulating but before moving the wall.
Running the heating duct.
Dad hanging vapor barrier after insulating.
Putting carpet down with dad.
Old dividing wall. We moved this to the center of the space to make two rooms of the same size.
Taping around one of 5 new windows. Of all the things we did, these were the best.
Showing some of the tear out. The big opening is split into two windows, one in each room. This is the boy's room, or it will be when his mother is ready to stick him in there.
Mother in law running car down the materials ramp. Everything was dumped out this and slid down timbers to the ground. The sheetrock all came up this way too. By the way I do not recomend remodling in three weeks prior to pregnancy with your mother in law around. Message me if you want to know why.
Glowing stairs, treads are made from boards removed from the wall sheeting.
Door to the boy's room, still needs trim.
Treads still have the milling marks.
This is the link to the youtube video I made of the stairs. It was a 'happy new baby boy' present to the wife and one of a kind.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Avkix9Cpwk
Ripping out the shelving in the old monstrous walk in/bed room.
Furing the rafters with Dad. In order to get more insulation in the rafters we added full dimension 2x2's to the bottom making the rafters a full six inches. Let us put in R19 rather than R11. This is what I didn't do in the attic space because I need the height.
What is now the craft room just after I had painted. You can see the old opening into the storage room.
Ripping out the old sheeting in the craft room, you can see the lack of insulation. Again that is the opening to the storage room.
Main bed room, after insulating but before moving the wall.
Running the heating duct.
Dad hanging vapor barrier after insulating.
Putting carpet down with dad.
Old dividing wall. We moved this to the center of the space to make two rooms of the same size.
Taping around one of 5 new windows. Of all the things we did, these were the best.
Showing some of the tear out. The big opening is split into two windows, one in each room. This is the boy's room, or it will be when his mother is ready to stick him in there.
Mother in law running car down the materials ramp. Everything was dumped out this and slid down timbers to the ground. The sheetrock all came up this way too. By the way I do not recomend remodling in three weeks prior to pregnancy with your mother in law around. Message me if you want to know why.
Glowing stairs, treads are made from boards removed from the wall sheeting.
Door to the boy's room, still needs trim.
Treads still have the milling marks.
Storage
been a long time since I updated, but spent the long weekend redoing the storage room for the wife. She has wanted this for a long time but I have been resting because of it's dubious benefits. Anyway tore out all of the old sheeting to discover what we already suspected, piss-poor insulation. 1 inch of rockwool batting. I hate rockwool. Pulled it all down, removed the pair of windows hidden in the wall and reframed it all without disturbing the siding. We now have R11, I know it sucks but it must be 3 or 4 times better than it was. All of the sheetrock had to be cut into 4x4 sections so I could pack them through the house by myself. Now that it is done and I have started taping you can hear if not feel the difference. I think sealing the room will have more effect than anything else. Taping looks like crap and I am not really trying very hard so I guess that is my fault. Letting the taping mud freeze didn't help. It will be a two coat job no mater what it looks like, my crap isn't important enough for flawless walls. I know the wife will want it painted but I will see if I can talk her out of it. Finishing this room was the last step towards wiring the center wall of the bedrooms as I ran the wires while it was all apart. Ripping out the full dimension half-door jam and replacing it with 1/2 means the opening is way bigger now, nice because that sob had claimed the skin from the back of my neck more than a time or two.
Far corner looking back. This room was only one inch out of square, not bad considering the rest of the place. Inside the ceiling is just R11, woefully inadequate but way better what used to be up there, R3 rockwool. I was able to get the room another inch taller and two wider by removing all of the layers of full dimension sheeting.
The wooden 'L' is a removable panel covering not one but four junction boxes in the wall. These were the 'find' of the project. Thought it might be best if I could get at them, you know in case they catch fire. Behind the short little vertical wall to the right is where I interned a pair of turn of the century baby shoes we had previously discovered inside a wall. Turns out building baby shoes into the wall was sort of a 'bless this house' thing. I wanted to put them back in when we found them, the wife didn't. The wife wanted this project done, I didn't. She isn't here, shoes are back in the wall. She doesn't know yet, pray for me. Rock on kiddo.
This is the entrance to the storage room over the kitchen. Wife has been pestering me to redo it for years. I have no idea why the crap we have needs to be so well protected but whatever. I was able to trim out and hang a 30 inch door I cut down as opposed to the 28 inch door that used to be there. This is because I can bend time and space.
Far corner looking back. This room was only one inch out of square, not bad considering the rest of the place. Inside the ceiling is just R11, woefully inadequate but way better what used to be up there, R3 rockwool. I was able to get the room another inch taller and two wider by removing all of the layers of full dimension sheeting.
The wooden 'L' is a removable panel covering not one but four junction boxes in the wall. These were the 'find' of the project. Thought it might be best if I could get at them, you know in case they catch fire. Behind the short little vertical wall to the right is where I interned a pair of turn of the century baby shoes we had previously discovered inside a wall. Turns out building baby shoes into the wall was sort of a 'bless this house' thing. I wanted to put them back in when we found them, the wife didn't. The wife wanted this project done, I didn't. She isn't here, shoes are back in the wall. She doesn't know yet, pray for me. Rock on kiddo.
This is the entrance to the storage room over the kitchen. Wife has been pestering me to redo it for years. I have no idea why the crap we have needs to be so well protected but whatever. I was able to trim out and hang a 30 inch door I cut down as opposed to the 28 inch door that used to be there. This is because I can bend time and space.
