ALWAYS...er,no....NEVER start projects at....

[woodchuck]

The end of a caffeine high, my bright idea saturday after having such a productive morning,http://dadstayshome.com/dads/showthread.php?t=5982 I thought hey, I feel good enough to rip out a floor, install and rewire lighting for the hallway below, and add support framing, and insulate, and put in a new floor, all before my son needs his room for bedtime tonight....riiiight.

I started on the project, wife took the kids out for 5 hours for self-preservation, then I needed to hit the store for my new flooring materials, $13/sheet for t/g sturdi-floor panels, some coated screws, then home, 46 miles r/t and shopping in only an hour, not bad.

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Who says mice won't chew through foil, hmph, well, that little hole is no more, and the joist cavity is now well filled with fiberglass insulation.
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Hey, wonder where all these, go, and which is hot/neutral, are they hot??
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Sunday, the wife took both kids with her to a baby shower, so another day of peace and qiuet, good thing too, it was hot/humid in the room since that a/c zone is out of order, and like a sauna outside when cutting materials. Once the old wiring was figured out I was able to finish up, slowly, heat exhaustion two days in a row really beats up the internal organs, even with 5 litres of water each day and many 1-3hr rest breaks. So, at 4pm the last sheet was laid, some vacuuming and I crashed for the rest of the day, woke up at 9pm for bedtime rutual, back to bed at 11pm.

Monday, today, I'll so some ceiling work, maybe, then put the carpet back in, all the kids toys and my sons big bed, no more crib, he's getting a full size mattress/box spring set, since this will double as the guest room, at 12x16 its the largest bedroom and has peaceful woodland views.

Only 4more bedrooms to do the same thing to, ugh.

[chuck]

Nice work! I love a project, been working on my basement for 3 years now myself!
Hey get your self one of these (http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=productDetail&productId=158088-72068-GT-11&lpage=none)http://www.dadstayshome.com/dads/imagehosting/79746c05e8ac679e.jpg you just hold it on the wire and it will tell you if its hot, great gizmo and has saved my can more than once, every home owner who tinkers should have one!

[woodchuck]

THanks for the tip chuck, due to my past tool requirements, this Fluke has served me well, but a 'hot pen' would be a worthwhile addition, less invasive to.


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[QJ]

You mean you're not supposed to stick your tongue on it? :shodan: :shock: #-o

[tt3]

Dude. Wow. Thats a project and a half! Good work! Wow.
I'd get about 2/3's of the floor up and realize I'm in deep sh!t!
:lol:

[woodchuck]

The boy will be sleeping in there tonight, one way or t'other.

He needs to get back to sleeping in his own room, two days was one too long.

[woodchuck]

Carpet is back in, just in time for naptime after lunch.

[sao95]

was the original hardwood not salvageable? and finish those walls out!! :p

[woodchuck]

The original flooring material, which was only one layer thick, was not hardwood, Doug Fir from the smell of it, very tight grain too, it'll be reincarnated into something else after it's cleaned up some.

Kids are hard on walls, the fact that the wall sheathing was on the inside of the studs is interesting, but on the upside, very durable.
It's a fubar situation, each can of worms must be opened carefully.

The best solution, remove the entire 2story addition off the house, dig out the half depth foundation and redo it from basement up to the roof, but now is not the time for that.

Hey, Sao, why don't you come over and do a mudding demo.

[tt3]

Hey, Sao, why don't you come over and do a mudding demo.

laughing laughing laughing laughing

Woody, I can bring down my mudding stuff and add nice huge thick coats for him to sand! :lol: laughing

[sao95]

I'll do a muddin demo, I'll finish out one joint and then you have to do the rest while I critique your work ;) really though, I'm curious about what I'm seein, on the one wall the window was larger and you put in a smaller one? and why does the wood only go half way up? also what's with the two blue boards?

[woodchuck]

Sao, okay, when we bought this place, the room had a 7' ceiling, and the windows you see, the plain brown boards on the floor, and the walls were covered in 'Beaver Board', kind of a cardboard/hardboard product on the wood sheathing and luan panelling over that with trim to cover the seams.

I stripped the room, and when contemplating the work required to remove the interior shiplapped board sheathing nailed with alot of 3" square spikes, to get to the insulation in the walls, I wondered if the walls had any exterior sheathing support. My decision was to just drywall over what was already in place, so its the drywall that stopped halfway down. I stopped the drywall because I knew the floor would be coming up at some time and it would have covered the ends of the floor boards and made it much more difficult than it needed to be.

The ceiling now is an 8' center dished look, with the original 7' height appearing like a soffet along the side walls. The picture showing the register, that used to be an exterior wall, many, many decades ago.

I hope that clears some of it up, the rest you will have to come up and see.