I feel picky after visiting my house, finding the framing has been started along the walls, and asking via email whether we can alter the framing in the master bedroom. The ceiling joists have been cut and framing installed to support a ceiling angling up from a regular 9' ceiling to allow the doghouse windows to be used. I climbed 20 or more feet up a ladder to the doghouse windows, and found they are crank windows (but new ones with screens and everything). The framing barely allows the handles to turn, and it's not walled in yet. I don't imagine I'll be scaling the walls to open and close the doghouse windows often - but wouldn't it be silly to have windows that could open blocked from opening?
I also think in my mind I'd have more of the ceiling high up; here it just angles up to the top of the roof before quickly angling back down. I think I'm keeping it like that though, to allow ample room in the "attic" for an air handler. Jordan has noted there will be 2 draws for air - one on each floor.
Last night on the dancefloor Janna made fun of me because she knew I was exhausted from squat day and could not do any ass-to-floor dance moves, so she pulled her little wiggly self up and down in front of me. Curses! Nimble little wench...
I was excited to learn a teeny bit about framing by checking it out - on the ceiling they have sistered 2x4s along the major joists. It appears they first installed and leveled 2x4s front and rear, leveled them, and then ran a string (plumb line?) between them and are nailing the others up to just touch the string. Presumably this means they don't have to level each board while the end result is a perfectly level ceiling structure (and ceiling).
The new joists are in where they were damaged by the bathroom and they look great. They're the same sizes as the original ones, are secured in each brick wall, and are supported more than the originals by short sections between each one. That may or may not be stronger than the original structure (which was likely made of old-growth wood, harder than the current pine standard) but it should not wiggle much.
Just saw property brothers while moofing a sandwhich, and it was an episode where they found rotted wood under a tub that could have given way, plus a horrific disaster where the house was previously modified to install central ductwork...by putting it through the center of the house...cutting through all the joists of the house. They wound up nearly gutting the floor, and it made me think...
Also making me think was talking to my neighbor, who I briefly showed the interior. I casually noted that what I was doing would last 20 years without needing to be thought about again. I thought about this later, and realized it could easily be 50 or another 100 years that this house will be sound structurally. Even if I don't capitalize on this investment, what I've done here will potentially have value for a long fucking time. I'm proud of that when I think about it. This house was a sagging and dangerous mess when it was on the market to be sold and for the last many years when rented to tenants. I made (paid someone to make) it better.
Hope it doesn't die in a fire!
I also think in my mind I'd have more of the ceiling high up; here it just angles up to the top of the roof before quickly angling back down. I think I'm keeping it like that though, to allow ample room in the "attic" for an air handler. Jordan has noted there will be 2 draws for air - one on each floor.
Last night on the dancefloor Janna made fun of me because she knew I was exhausted from squat day and could not do any ass-to-floor dance moves, so she pulled her little wiggly self up and down in front of me. Curses! Nimble little wench...
I was excited to learn a teeny bit about framing by checking it out - on the ceiling they have sistered 2x4s along the major joists. It appears they first installed and leveled 2x4s front and rear, leveled them, and then ran a string (plumb line?) between them and are nailing the others up to just touch the string. Presumably this means they don't have to level each board while the end result is a perfectly level ceiling structure (and ceiling).
The new joists are in where they were damaged by the bathroom and they look great. They're the same sizes as the original ones, are secured in each brick wall, and are supported more than the originals by short sections between each one. That may or may not be stronger than the original structure (which was likely made of old-growth wood, harder than the current pine standard) but it should not wiggle much.
Just saw property brothers while moofing a sandwhich, and it was an episode where they found rotted wood under a tub that could have given way, plus a horrific disaster where the house was previously modified to install central ductwork...by putting it through the center of the house...cutting through all the joists of the house. They wound up nearly gutting the floor, and it made me think...
Also making me think was talking to my neighbor, who I briefly showed the interior. I casually noted that what I was doing would last 20 years without needing to be thought about again. I thought about this later, and realized it could easily be 50 or another 100 years that this house will be sound structurally. Even if I don't capitalize on this investment, what I've done here will potentially have value for a long fucking time. I'm proud of that when I think about it. This house was a sagging and dangerous mess when it was on the market to be sold and for the last many years when rented to tenants. I made (paid someone to make) it better.
Hope it doesn't die in a fire!