Monday, October 28, 2002

More Framing

Things escalated and more things had to be removed in order to make them better. Every window opening would be changed and new framing added.

New bathroom framing including new joists around the toilet/tub area where they had some rot.

New ceiling joists from the attic
The back of the house ended up with no original siding left and almost no studs. the giant sliders had pretty much taken out all of the structure.
In hindsight, it may have been smarter to salvage the house and start over since we ended up replacing about 2/3 of the wall framing.

Wednesday, October 09, 2002

Cleanup

After finding that most of the interior walls were framed with the studs the narrow dimension, we found that we would have to reframe all the walls. Oh, well.

We then figured out that the ceiling was sagging 2" because of being way underframed with 2x4's on 2' centers with 12' span. So we ended up dropping all of the plaster and putting in new 2x6 ceiling joists. I really dont quite know what was holding the roof up having the ceiling joists being nailed with 1 toenail on the ends.