So today was mostly about prepping for 6-mil poly (plastic vapour barrier). No time yet to put it up – prep was kind of time consuming. We wound the kitchen circuit wiring (a 20-Amp kitchen counter and a 15-Amp microwave) through the furring strips.
That done, we all stood around the 2nd storey stairway to determine the best plan of attack.
You see, the bathroom entrance is plagued with a low-lying staircase. It protrudes into the short little hallway between the bathroom door and the rest of the bathroom. Better to just show you a pic from 2022.
There is not a lot of headroom.
Dave said that the type of renter I would want would not accept this. A renter who would accept this would accept anything because they are likely rejected from nicer places. In other words, crap house, crap renters.
So we are devising a plan to move the stairway northward, away from the bathroom entrance. Not complicated, just difficult. It involves
- removing and rebuilding five walls <sigh>
- cutting through a ceiling joist (rafter tie) and re-engineering loads around it to create more headroom
- moving the stairway northward 18 inches
- building a square landing 2 steps up from the bottom (as the staircase was originally cut that way or was never the right length to begin with), and
- moving the remaining 2 steps east of the landing (toward the entrance)
More drafting and planning is needed … just to make sure.
Here’s a pic of the rafter ties just above the landing.
Second wall down, three to go.
