520 12C St N, rear

This is the second suite at the property.

siding weight issues

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So we bought all that cement board siding (Hardie Board) for the exterior of 520 rear.  But, after adding continuous (no furrow strips) soundproofing and insulation, the width of the wall is now extended 2-7/8″ past the sheathing, or 3-1/4″ past the studs, which are only 2×4.  What kind of hardware is needed to hang cement board siding that far out from the studs?  Once the calculations are done, the cement board siding comes in at 93 lbs. per 4×8′ area.

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dead as a doorbell

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The doorbell quit!  But I know why.  It was a clearance item at Rona.  When I installed it, I knew the button was sticky.  So when someone pushed it, it activated the doorbell and ran forever until the thing died.  Was it the transformer or the chime?  Hard to say.  But I replaced it all anyway.

 

In retrospect, sale items are not always a good purchase.

shower door

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This shower door from Maax has to have some of the poorest instructions I’ve ever seen. Not the poorest, but close. It doesn’t tell you which way various objects go (pointing inside or outside of the shower). The diagrams are all fairly simple but nondescript in terms of orientation. We ended up losing five toggle bolts inside the wall because we had to take a bracket off and put it on facing the other direction. If I had this to do all over again, I would know what to do. But how many shower doors does a person install during their lifetime?

I’ll show you when it’s all done.

bedroom window framing, ceiling paint

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Double-header, instep king studs, and a couple of cripples.

Next: cut the window hole and add the window. The nail flange will have to be tucked inside the siding somehow.

After that, add a one-by frame, drywall, tape, mud, sand, skim -coat, sand again, paint, and trim. Almost done. Ha.

In the mean time, while I wait for FT, I’ll be painting the ceiling again. The touch-up paint I used a couple of days ago froze in the van and changed colour.

Final coat?

sticks

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I’ve taken these home to sand and urethane.  These will be trim boards for doors and windows and baseboards throughout the suite.

 

I’m hoping the end effect will not be humble looking but, rather, simple, clean, and natural.

A friend asked where all these sticks came from.  Here’s the story.  The floor framing is made of 2x3s ripped down to the same thickness as the rigid flooring insulation (about 2-1/8″).  These sticks are the leftovers.  Waste not, want not!