| 3/16/03
Ah, it's nice to be back to framing again! Spend a little bit of
money, work for an evening or two, and you get these nice, big walls to
show for it!
Activities this week were framing the bedroom walls, closets, cellar
stair wall, pantry, and 1/2 bath in the laundry room.
It rained a couple inches over the weekend, so it was nice to be able
to have a fire and cheer things up, not to mention a convenient place to
dispose of lumber cutoffs.
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We got tottie! |
| 4/3/03
Funny thing about framing, the walls and ceiling go up really fast, and
you think you're just flying. But then it takes another month to do
the closets, potshelves, blocking and backing for cabinets, towel bars,
etc.
We completed the outside sheeting, and wow, what a difference!
It's nice to have a house again that's not totally see-thru. Still a
lot to do before framing inspection, however. |
We got walls! No more see-thru! |
| As I wrap up framing, my wife is constantly on the lookout
for nooks or cubbys to frame in to utilize the space for cabinets or
shelves. Here the space above the basement stairway is framed to
accept a linen closet. |
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| Most of the factory windows arrived and are installed.
I tried to use the existing windows as much as possible to save money, but
where new windows go in, I had to get factory-built ones. I will
admit they are nice, with the double-hung vinyl sash tipping in so you can
clean the outside of the window from in the house. |
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| 4/18/03
We passed Framing Inspection! |
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| We had poured through catalogs trying to find a cast-iron
corner tub with no luck. I finally found a salvage yard downtown Los
Angeles that had over 400 tubs stacked in their yard. $375.00
fetched this beauty that took three men and a forklift to get into the
back of my truck. We will have it re-finished later. |
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| 4/26/03
Today after 4 months of work, my wife finished stripping the last of
the old windows, and I'm assembling them for installation. The white
sill here is PVC, as the traditional redwood sills never hold the paint
well and are prone to rot. |
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| We stripped all the old sash cord pullys and straightened
the bent ones, blasting them with WD-40 until they rolled like new again. |
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| One of the old windows installed with PVC sills and
Hardiboard trim. The Hardi trim is cement composite, like the siding
is going to be, and is installed with stainless steel nails. This
should cut down the exterior maintenance considerably.
The two notches in the jambs are the access doors for the sash weights. |
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| This is my project for the next couple of weeks as I sand,
bondo, re-glue and prime with linseed oil the 18 sashes for the
windows. Some are pretty bad, and I may have to make a couple.
Either way, I still have to make the gable end windows and the transom
windows, so I'll run some extra stock when machining it from the old floor
joists. |
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| This is the pile of sawdust from just making two of the
windows from the old floor joists. Seems like there's more sawdust
than window. |
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| The end result. This is the interior window between
the kitchen and dining room just sitting in place. |
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| Transom window above the door was built from a post in the
basement. |
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| 5/12/03
Starting to look like a house! |
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