projects on the go
Allan After filling a floor gap where the original 4-square house and the kitchen add-on meet and caulking the rest, we installed the pantry cabinets (not to be confused with the room off the kitchen called “the pantry”).
At the end of the day…
Back in the stairs…
I cleaned up the place a bit before beginning work. With the appliances gone from the living room, Dave was able to finish the ceiling. We put paper bags around the ceiling fan blades to protect them from drywall dust, primer, and paint splatter.
I bought some pest repellent spray foam insulation. It seems to me that the mouse that entered the house while the previous tenants were there went in through a 3/4″ gap in the concrete footing patch the previous owners did to fill the gap. The dead (decaying) mouse was found under the kitchen cabinets right at that spot. The outside hole had been filled earlier, and drywall bottom gap was filled with this newly found foam.
As I was there, the owner of Benchmark Glass here in town came over with the newly created window pane for the mudroom. No charge! A “good neighbour” gesture! Ain’t that sweet. (I got my new replacement windshield from a few weeks ago.)
The upstairs suite stair landing sits ready to be tackled again. More work to be done in the main floor suite.
I continued on with the stair landing prep work. The landing framing dimensions are written on the wood.
I bought some Rockwool R22 16″o.c. insulation from Lealta Building Supplies…
As I was working on the upstairs suite stairwell landing, Dave was mudding, sanding, painting, etc. in the main floor suite. The refrigerator wall was skim coated again.
I finally got the right brackets for the toilet shelving.
When Floyd and Dave showed up, I was mulling over the last bits of the upstairs suite stairwell framing including the landing. We began this today. It stands 23.5 inches high and is about 49 x 38 inches and constructed of 2×6 and 3/4 ply. It will be drywalled in 3/4-inch for fireblocking.
The remaining lumber will be used up for something-or-other, I am sure.
So this is how it stands at the end of the day. If you are paying attention, you will see that one more jack stud needs to be added on the NE corner to hold up the top plate (bottom right of this picture).
This shrub needs to be gone. I’m sure its roots are messing with the house. I would like to … Then again, maybe it’s the only thing keeping that side of the house up.
Meanwhile, the lawn was cut.
But, there are thousands of these little plants growing all over. What are they? I think they may be tiny trees hoping to grow. I bought some week killer to help tamp them down.
The remaining trim around the toilet / laundry area was completed. I had to let the mud dry to sand and then let the paint dry. All done.
The next batch of lumber is for framing the last wall and building the 2nd floor suite stair landing.
As Dave was priming and re-mudding, priming, and painting walls, I framed the final wall separating the two suites. It is a 2×6 fire-rated wall. This seemingly took forever (2 hrs, 20 min after arriving with lumber) as my Bosch laser meter wasn’t accurate, out more than four inches. Someone mentioned, “Maybe the batteries are low.” But the speed of (laser) light doesn’t change when batteries are low.
Now that that is done…
There seems to be a leak in the water pipe from the street. The dirt is damp. The water meter was jostled about several times when exhuming loose dirt, removing the retaining wall, replacing copper water lines with PEX, etc.
