Sunday, January 23, 2011
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.
