projects on the go
Floyd wasn’t here today. I made the rest of the repairs to the rotted out floor under the staircase before moving on to the wall. There is now a layer of 3/4″ plywood in lieu of the 3″ tongue-and-groove floor boards. Beneath that, more 3/4″ plywood in place of the original floor planks. It’s all fastened down with anti-squeak screws (expensive!).
Next, the 2nd 2×6 wall separating the main suite from the staircase to the 2nd storey suite. Again, this wall has double bottom and top plates.
I, Floyd, and Dave are back at it again. We are removing the north retaining wall to get at a notched rotten beam. This means shovelling more dirt, removing bits and pieces of retaining wall and three posts, and hauling out buckets of dirt. Now you see it, …
… now you don’t.
We found, upon trying to build 2×6 fire-rated load-bearing walls, that there was nothing to set the walls upon. The floor is rotten. I’ll have to dig deeper, tearing up the floorboards, to see how far the rot goes.
In the mean time, we put up the 2nd wall (a 2×6 wall). It was moved from its original spot about 9 inches to the west to be placed under (not beside) 1st storey ceiling / 2nd storey floor joists. Well that’s a novel idea, eh?, supporting overhead joists with load-bearing walls! Can you hear the annoyance in my typing?
I had some time today, so I thought I’d putter. I cleaned up the place a little, added some electrical boxes to the living room / bath wall, and … I forget what else.
Oh, right – I properly mounted the brake / tail lights to the flatbed trailer. I got these from Princess Auto.
Since these brake lights don’t hang down like the other ones do, they are less likely to break while backing into places like the landfill.
