The old laundry area, as seen from the kids’ bedroom (that’s the door in their room on the left) — as it was last weekend. The window is the current “Beetlejuice” window now hanging without a wall around it.
No floor left… just the old 25-foot cypress floor joists. Paul cut them out and is saving them. We’re hoping to expose part of our outbuilding and use these in an exposed ceiling. They are really phenomenal.
The corner of the house before renovations started. Remember when Paul had to jack up the corner of the house? You can see the sill he put in and the block on the left where he raised the house. This also shows how the walls are not sitting on anything. At this point, you could shake them and get significant horizontal movement… sort of alarming.
Floors and walls are gone. This is where we were as of the end of last weekend.
Paul starts to put in the new floor joists.
He’s got all the floor joists done now and several of the floor boards in. With everything going on, we haven’t taken pictures of it yet.
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GentillyGirl | 29-Feb-08 at 1:42 am | Permalink
Y’all doing great Darlin’! Love the new joists. Build heavy and use hurricane straps at all wood-to-wood connections in the house frame. Y’all get about 250 mph wind protection from that.
And be careful to anchor the frame. Our house partially lifted when London hit. Our workshop floated back 2 feet. Our decks were all over the place. Ya’s don’t need that for your house.
Andrew Kottenstette | 04-Mar-08 at 9:35 am | Permalink
Sometimes it’s not good to haunch your joist’s like that (photo #7). Depends on the total height of the joist. I don’t think it will hurt on what you have. I’ve seen inspectors call for metal straps on shorter boards, but it served the carpenter right for using 2×6’s, the minimun for floor framing.
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