projects on the go
Allan Installation of the insulation. Say that five times. Anyway, no one likes a cold shower. This Rockwool insulation is so easy to work with. It cuts like a loaf of bread. It is fire retardant and soundproofs really well. Plus, it doesn’t make the installer itchy like that fibreglass stuff does.
One doesn’t usually get too excited about 2x4s, but these are actually 2 by 4, or close to it. Plus, they’re fir, not just SPF. What do I need these heavy monstrosities for? I need to replace four tie beams (bottom chords) tying my rafters together. Some crackpot notched one badly, two more are split and compromised, and one more has been drilled through it so many times that there’s no way it is actually holding structurally anymore.
Thank you, Windsor Plywood, or bringing these in!
YouTube is not always my go-to as there are so many opinions, regions with different building code, lines of products, regional variations within products, etc. But this was helpful.
The flooring is finally underway. The last little bit of sub-floor to complete (the landing) …
… is now complete.
I finally got a piece of glass for the front porch of the house. The roofing company accidentally broke the window as they were throwing down refuse from the old roof. The same guy who came to tell me, on a different day, that he put his foot through the ceiling of the porch also told me about the broken glass.
I told them not to worry about it as I had another pane in the basement, but it turns out someone else broke that one. $25 later, it is now replaced. Needs putty though.
My neighbour pointed this out to me. He thought maybe I poked the roof up from down below in the ceiling. Nope, not me. What’s happening here? Why is this poking up from the roof?
Update: It turns out the last guy there told his boss that the roofing project had been finished. It wasn’t. There wasn’t even a cap on the peak!
As the roofers were completing their project – the last roof surface was the front porch – one of them fell partially through the roof and ceiling below due to rotten boards. Three rows of ceiling tongue-and-groove boards were broken or detached from the roof rafters. Along with the boards came chunks of planks that used to be the roof sheathing, 120 years of dust, new roofing material, and plant debris. Yes, plants were growing in their at one point.
I reattached the boards today with wood screws. It ain’t pretty, but it will suffice for now.
Next: the broken window. I’m still waiting to hear back from the window shop.
The vanity & shower plumbing is in. The shower will be vented (not wet-vented as previously planned) the same place as the vanity. The shower now drains through 1-1/2″ pipe (shower drain assembly reduced from 2″ to 1-1/2″ with a collar), toward the vanity, and on to the 2″ drain that runs from the kitchen sink. Slope: 1/4″ per foot, as per normal except for after the first elbows and before the wye-joint, which has a slightly higher slope (3/8″ per foot).
Or did you already see this picture? Maybe you did. Segway to the toilet plumbing. That’s all installed. See the laundry waterlines?
Plumbing begins today. This is the part of the project we’ve been working toward for the past few weeks – or more. It’s the age-old issue – before plumbing, this has to be done. Before this, that must be done. Before that, … etc. Well, now the plumbing can begin.
Toilet plumbing:
Lining everything up wasn’t the issue. Gluing everything in place was because of how rigid 3-inch pipe is and because it is such a short run to the drain / vent stack.
Vanity, shower plumbing:
Note on floor structure:
Drilling through the double floor joists wasn’t an issue as these blocks were added, keeping the compression on the top, tension on the bottom scenario to a minimum; that is to say that adding 50% more material over 18 inches or so helps to spread the tension / compression around. Plus, it also improves rigidity to the double joist system, almost eliminating movement. There are no herringbone struts to stabilize the joists because they are only 7-1/2″ deep (very little room to add stuff). Plus, the house never had it before, and ‘officially’ changing the structure is not what I had in mind – only replacing s*** that others had done to this poor, old house.
This is a repost from someone else.
Yes, this just happened to me – not at the toilet but, rather, at the laundry inlet of the drain stack. (See my comments.)
