Projects

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? 

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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.) 

Yay!  The shower arrived!  It was supposed to be sometime next week, but it arrived today. 

HFT and I opened it up outside and took each part up separately.  We put the drain on the shower pan to see the final elevation of the drain. 

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We got a load of 3/4″ plywood for the floor, pipes to divert the drain / vent stack, and more soundproofing panels for inside the floor.  Now that the joists are set in place, we can get blocking done (got some joist hangers from Rona) and get ready for the next few steps.  Slow going! 

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We were diverted by ceiling work in the 1st floor, but now we’re back!

The final joist is almost in place.  Still missing one 8′-length of 2×10 to tie it all together.

Wow, the number of spliced, pieced-together pieces of s*** – we’re talking 2x4s nailed to 2x6s and everything else – is just incredible.  Who would build in such a way!?  So we’re almost done this task.

Next: 

• 3/4″ ply to replace the floor boards
• vapour barrier for main floor bath ceiling
• 1/4″ or 3/8″ ply for main floor bath ceiling
• pipes to divert & rebuild the vent / drain stack
• soundproofing panels for floor
• …and many, many more

The old kitchen window (new kitchen location, old window) came out today.  The old sliders that are in the house now don’t seem very old, but they are stiff to open and close, and plastic parts are broken.  The new one is a triple pane casement.

The removal didn’t take much effort, but altering the framing did.  By building code, if we are not enlarging the window, the original framing can be used without being required to add king, jack, or cripple studs and headers.  The old window was 30W x 60H, and the new one is 30W x 40H.

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Yay!  My laundry machine has arrived.

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It’s an all-in-one machine (washes and dries).  Of course, I can’t use it yet as the whole place is currently in shambles.

I’m really not sure why they built the upstairs with this weird little crooked landing area.  Was it a feature?  Did they run out of lumber?  Was there not enough headroom in the first floor?  (It already intrudes at a 45° angle halfway through the bathroom entrance.)  Was the last step too steep, so they added a little landing?

We tore off the top layers to see how this thing was built.  It seems that the entire set of stairs are attached to the floor joists by two lag bolts.  Hmm.  And the top step, the landing, is kind of resting on the ceiling boards of the first floor.  It’s not framed very well.