projects on the go
This is a house built in 1906 at 1403 3 Ave. N., Coalbanks (later to become Lethbridge), AB, Canada. I bought the house in Dec. 2021 as a rental property. It has a 3-bedroom suite on the main floor and a 1-bedroom suite on the 2nd floor. This is the story of the upper suite (“up”).
Someone online asked to see pics of the upstairs suite. It is posted for rent online at Kijiji.ca. For now, there really isn’t much to see. (Also found at properties.allansplace.ca/1403-up.)
Entrance:
file error – will show you later
Staircase:
Bedroom:
Living room:
Kitchen:
Bathroom, Laundry:
The steps leading to the landing were cut and put in place. The area underneath will be storage when a hinge is put in.
The stringer for the steps leading to the mid-landing were done. Now I have to find the right hinge to access the storage below.
I ordered a few of these online, but they will not work. Maybe a piano hinge instead.
We had a look at the upstairs suite stairway drywall. 5/8″ was used as it is a fire-rated wall. (Two layers of 1/2″ were used on the opposite side of the wall in the main floor suite.)
After work in the main floor suite, and after everyone else left, I continued on up stairs. I finally found the handle for the bathroom window. It was attached to the screen. They were never delivered along with the window, so they sent it afterward.
I cleaned up.
Because the stairway was redesigned about fifty times, the 2nd floor landing flooring had to be redone. Blocking was put in the hold the plywood.
The remaining steps were put in again. A gap was created between the east side of the stairway and the adjacent wall.
3/4″ plywood was used as the subfloor. The whole apparatus was mounted permanently to the mid landing.
A door stop was added. This wall (painted wood shiplap) is to be as-is, not covered in drywall. There has to be some bit of house history remain intact.
I have some explaining to do. The reasons renovations to the main floor suite were started in the first place were
Some other reasons were
After work in the main floor suite, we began work on the stair stringers. The drafting was a somewhat frustrating experience. My software kept snapping to 45°, but the slope of the stairs is not 45°, so every time I drew lines from which to dimension, things became annoying. As well, the printer kept jamming, so I couldn’t print any plans. I wrote all the pertinent dimensions on a piece of paper, and we went outside to tackle the stringers.
We cut it to length and added the angles.
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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…
