I recently bought this house from my aunt and got started cleaning/remodeling it this week while practicing ‘shelter in place’. (It’s on Sweetheart Lane 2 doors down from my house )





It had a terrible floor plan with a 2nd ‘bedroom’ (7.5ft wide...) that made a narrow hallway and made the house feel claustrophobic. The red lines here represent the walls I took out. The small room went away, the pantry cabinet/closet and the (2) closets in the bedroom were deleted. (This will be a weekend rental, so no closet needed.)




Before/after looking from the kitchen toward living room. You can see the pantry is gone too.





This is the wall that was demo’d from the living room side.




Now, there is a gracious living room and the space no longer feels like wearing a straight jacket.

I recycled all of that T&G by using it on the previously unfinished stairwell.





The upstairs will remain unfinished for now. This will be one open room with bathroom in the corner. It will eventually get bunk beds and a big table for board games/puzzles/etc. The room that is framed up here will go away.






I may venture off the Lane today to go get the flooring for this project....

 

Dig that look..cool pad too...congrats. Hay, that wall you removed, was that load bearing? You got a 1.5ft soan now, let alone an upper story weight over that span

 

Today's breakfast was roll your own breakfast burritos. The ketchup in place of salsa was a massive oversight in grocery shopping.

 

Today's SIP baking project is Pao de Queijo (Brazilian cheesy popovers).

 

Good call. They are not load bearing. These walls were added after original construction (can you see how T&G on ceiling is intact?). The 2nd floor and roof trusses span to the exterior walls. (Only 24ft total, but there are other interior walls to help mitigate any deflection of 2nd floor).

Interestingly, I was looking at span tables recently for my other project and thought ‘wow, I remember given joist sizes being able to carry more’. The fact is, THEY DID. Our modern fast-growth pine/spruce is not as strong as even 20yrs ago!!

 

I was wondering that myself.

 

That's really nice Jason. I might even consider retiring in a place like that in your area. But I would have to have a big garage to work in when the time came. That wood is really nice touch. I see that in cabins like in Wyoming where I have friends.

 

Thanks Guys!! The paint booth seemed to work quite well. Now we just need to get the box on and push it outside so we can spray the doors and fenders.

Great looking house Jason. It is amazing how a few renos changes the inside completely. How is your aunt in the hospital doing by the way?

Rob

 

Aint it, Chet...I'd pack up, sell my pad and hit that hood..any day!
Got a couple more yrs before daughter graduates so, I'm here til then...
Can't multi uote lol, but yeah Hy..doing fire sprinklers, you should see what they call "beans" anymore in these 10-20 mill molkar homes we plumb up..nothing more then 2-2x4 with a 12" piece of water board stuck between them..lol..of course, depending on span, there's the 6"x12" beam, which is a glued beam...weird....but yup, my pad here, think they pushed the limit on truss span bc there's a wave in my ceiling

 

I know I have too much time on my hands nowadays and I'm stuck in my home. But what do you think about this guy?

 

These guys have the COVID-19 VIRUS.. PLEASE STAY AWAY!!!!!!!!

 

Start it at 5:45. This you don't see often.

 

The saying "don't worry my daddy will pay" comes to mind

 

Thanks Rob, I think the little house will turn out good. I went to one of my favorite surplus building materials places and picked up some T&G to finish the stairwell (ceiling) and for the bath house project. They have the flooring I want to use, but NC starts ‘shelter in place’ on Monday and they don’t know if they’ll be ‘essential services’ yet. They are going to be open today (Sunday) just in case they have to close. I think I’ll go get flooring today!!

Aunt Mary is still in hospital in Fla and some days are better than others. As of Friday, still no results from C19 Test.....

 

I call it the chirus, it's short, sweet and to the point.