tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59504320561173405402024-03-17T20:02:46.269-07:00Beacon Hill BungalowAn update of our life and times in Beacon Hill, Seattle.
It started with a renovation...who knows where it will lead...Laura Feinsteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11994956322378049552noreply@blogger.comBlogger175125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5950432056117340540.post-28753321808073909042014-01-03T19:50:00.000-08:002014-01-03T19:50:40.483-08:00Finishing touches We've been busy in the basement since this summer. Now that things are so finished, we are spending tons of time down in the basement.<br />
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<i>I moved my stain glass window from the front window to the back...it is nearly a perfect fit. </i></div>
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<i>Here's our basement living room, all set up with our furniture from upstairs.</i> </div>
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<i>Our elegant basement 1/2 bathroom. Marble floor and counter. </i></div>
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<br />Laura Feinsteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11994956322378049552noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5950432056117340540.post-38943271840434245212013-06-30T15:55:00.003-07:002013-06-30T15:59:03.210-07:00Staired and Floored...It has been a while since the last post to the Bungalow Blog and a lot has happened here on Beacon Hill. At our last check in we were still working on the basement and I am pleased to report that this project still has a modicum of steam behind it. Our upstairs living room furniture has been replaced and relocated to the basement so there are comfortable places to sit on both floors now. We infilled the hardwood floor between the kitchen and the pantry (old closet) as well as replaced the "temporary" OSB stair treads with fir to match the other stairs in the house. We've spent the last week making all this happen and then spent a portion of this weekend putting the finish on. This has been the plan for a while but had the unfortunate timing of happening when the temperature nears 90 degrees here in Seattle. Our basement is easily 20 degrees cooler than it is outside and can currently only be reached through a window. Great timing. <br />
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We've also been enjoying the fruits of our labor outdoors as summer has certainly arrived here. Our cherries have come in and mostly been consumed, our lettuce and beets are still going strong and the recent heat has been doing great things for our tomatoes, beans, squash and cucumbers. Laura has been coming up with creative recipes to use up all of this produce with much success as I'm certainly eating more beet greens than I would if left to my own devices. I've hosted two home brewing sessions and entered the Georgetown Power Tool Drag Races (<a href="http://www.seattlepi.com/default/photo/Teams-prep-their-power-tool-racers-during-the-4759759.php" target="_blank">neighbor Chelsy and I here</a>) to keep myself occupied. <br />
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In other news there is a competing blog in Laura's family that is chronicling the construction of her sister Sarah, BIL Ryan and nephew Baxter's new home in Nashville Tennessee. <a href="http://anotherbungalowblogspot.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Another Bungalow Blog</a> details how quickly things can happen on a house when you leave it to the professionals. <br />
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Tread installation in progress</div>
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Finished landing between pantry and kitchen</div>
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Justinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16161069760843568442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5950432056117340540.post-64453320168624447502013-03-31T16:26:00.004-07:002013-03-31T16:26:56.253-07:00A big leap on the project front<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In early March, we got busy sanding and painting the doors that we found at Second Use, a local salvage store. This store has been a gold mine for us in the door arena...we really scored some awesome deals. Justin got a good buy from Compton Lumber for building the door frames for these doors and prepping for the door hardware.</div>
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<i>Here's the man making sure he has a smooth finish.</i></div>
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<i>These doors really finish the room and hiding all of our storage.</i> </div>
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<i>Our future bathroom is to the left and our workshop to the right. </i></div>
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This week, I stayed home from work to host the carpet installers. This took a couple of hours and voila! we had a finished space. <br />
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<i>Tink is making herself comfortable. The room was so different with a concrete floor but now looks cozy and complete...minus the furniture.</i></div>
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<i> Another view. Check out those curves.</i></div>
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This weekend was delightful. We had sunny weather--enough for short sleeves and the first outdoor bicycle ride of the season. Justin and I spent some quality time cleaning up the yard and filling up the yard waste bin.<br />
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<i> We redid this corner with coniferous shrubs that should be a better fit for the space. The previous plants had outgrown the plot.</i></div>
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<i>The side garden is coming in nicely.</i> </div>
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Laura Feinsteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11994956322378049552noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5950432056117340540.post-38049364611187630442013-02-24T17:30:00.007-08:002013-02-24T17:32:39.094-08:00Trimmed out<div style="text-align: left;">
Justin and I have been doing a lot of basement work over the last few weeks but the work is the kind that is hard to see in photos. Mostly we've been installing baseboard trim, patching scrapes and dents in the walls and getting things ready to add door casing. We took our bargain doors to the lumberyard last week to have frames built and this weekend we installed the frames. Justin picked up 200+ linear feet of door casing which we have been busy painting. Together we painted and installed all of the baseboard trim two weekends ago and I caulked and filled all of the holes. Once we have the rest of the trim up, we can go back around and put a final coat of paint on everything to give it a nice finished look. </div>
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<i>We installed 3 door frames and prepped them with paint. The doors need to be sanded and painted too.</i></div>
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<i>Here's the door casing trim, in the middle of their paint job.</i></div>
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<i>And while I made dinner, Justin cut the countertop for my new desk/crafting station. </i></div>
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Laura Feinsteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11994956322378049552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5950432056117340540.post-46785791932246737212013-01-21T19:24:00.001-08:002013-01-21T19:27:19.544-08:00Checked offWe've been really busy with the basement these last few weekends. There really hasn't been much play-time despite record snowfalls in the mountains.<br />
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Justin and I have been dutifully checking items off the to-do list. We've painted all the walls and ceiling, stored all of our random stuff in permanent locations, installed all of the electrical receptacles and breakers, and laid on the final shiny coat of floor finish. And, we've made a final run to the dump to drop off the final pile of construction debris so Justin can park in the garage.<br />
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<i>Our most recent accomplishment is the shiny blue floor; wrapped up on Inauguration Day.</i></div>
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<i>Here's a view from where the washer usually sits. You can see half of our giant beer making storage closet which we also completed in the last few weeks.</i> </div>
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<br />Laura Feinsteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11994956322378049552noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5950432056117340540.post-48105942579758463262013-01-01T19:31:00.001-08:002013-01-01T19:31:57.961-08:00Happy New YearThe new year has come and it has brought shelves! This weekend was all about organizing and storing stuff that has been crammed into the nooks and crannies of our spare rooms and garage. We have lots of photos of stuff to share. Here's a little chronology of our long weekend:<br />
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<li>Final coat of polyurethane on the floor</li>
<li>Trim out storage room; no worries about caulk and paint...it's a storage room.</li>
<li>Build first two of three shelving units in storage room</li>
<li>Wipe down and move all of our outdoor/active gear onto these shelves</li>
<li>Build shelves in closet of tool room and move all paint and adhesives into tool room</li>
<li>Build workbench in tool room</li>
<li>Move all of Justin's tools and hardware/supplies into tool room</li>
<li>Build third shelf in storage room and store the remaining boxes of stuff</li>
<li>Relocate can light in living room; mud and tape hole</li>
<li>Paint closet in laundry room</li>
<li>Build shelving for spare bedroom closet</li>
<li>Build shelving for new pantry space and move a few goodies into this space</li>
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Here are the photos of our efforts:<br />
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<i>New shelves, stocked with all of our stuff and even some room to spare for future expansion. Note the trim and shiny blue floor.</i></div>
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<i> The tool room, outfit with a new workbench and tools! We still need trim in here but are planning to pre-paint it before nailing it to the wall.</i></div>
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<i>The spare bedroom's new closet shelving. </i></div>
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<i>Our cool blue pantry with all of my canned goods and cookbooks and assorted beverages. I have a few ideas for how to tart it up a bit.</i></div>
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Laura Feinsteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11994956322378049552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5950432056117340540.post-67642266308904236162012-12-25T19:16:00.001-08:002012-12-25T19:16:34.583-08:00FlooredWe bought the low-VOC paint for the walls and there was barely a scent. The floor paint, on the other hand, smelled like a clowder of cats got into the basement, had a hissy fit, and marked every corner. We're sitting around the house this evening a little high, not on pot, but on ammonia-scented fumes.<br />
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Anyhow, Justin got two coats of our peacock blue on the floor. The color is a little lighter than I've been imagining but I think it looks pretty striking. We think we'll need to put an extra coat down to get an even saturation and coverage. We're hoping to get the floor done by Friday night so we can spend some time this weekend installing base trim and building out the shelving in these two rooms and moving all of our junk back into the rooms.<br />
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<i>Here's the snazzy tool room:</i> </div>
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<i>Here's the snazzy storage room:</i> </div>
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The drywall is done; the walls are primed and we are on to the fun part now. Justin and I donned our painting outfits this weekend and broke out the old paintin' tools. Justin rolled and I cut-in and we were able to finish 1.5 rooms and a closet in one day. On the second day, we were a little less productive. Most of the day was spent chasing cracks in the concrete floor with a grinder so we can fill them in with an epoxy and hopefully get a smoother floor to paint. While Justin worked with the epoxy, I wired up all of the outlets in the tool room. Justin installed the trim for the recessed lights and wired up the light in the closet.<br />
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<i>This room just needs some concrete patching, some paint on the floor and some baseboard trim and it will be done. The nice cozy gray that we have in our bedroom is on the walls in this room.</i></div>
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On Sunday afternoon, we knocked off some more wall painting: the stairwell and new pantry. We opted to paint the pantry and the wall adjacent to the kitchen the blue that is in the kitchen. Presumably, you'll be able to see this area from within the kitchen and painting it the same color gives a nice continuity.<br />
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<i>A rare action shot: me painting.</i></div>
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We will be prepping the floors for paint this next week and hopefully installing base trim soon too. Once these 2 rooms are completed, we are going to be able to move all of our stuff back into the basement!<br />
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<br />Laura Feinsteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11994956322378049552noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5950432056117340540.post-27616573079533565682012-12-05T20:15:00.002-08:002012-12-05T20:15:39.444-08:00Walls, CeilingsA few updates on the new drywall in the house...<br />
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<i>Tink's a fan of the new walls (let's hope she doesn't mar them up)</i></div>
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Everything looks a lot smaller than before, when your mind can't extend the room beyond the studs. We're looking forward to getting this phase done. We'll be painting before Christmas.Laura Feinsteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11994956322378049552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5950432056117340540.post-77996714494268887492012-12-02T14:05:00.002-08:002012-12-05T20:16:01.028-08:00Toasty Warmth<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This basement of ours is looking a lot more like our vision these days. We had the insulators in on Friday and now the basement looks more like a set of rooms, thanks to the opaqueness of the batts. Justin dutifully moved about 2/3rds of our storage up into the extra bedroom and garage to clear the way for the workers. We'll have drywallers in next week so getting this stuff out of their way will help them out.<br />
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<i> Here's our beverage collection. It is nearly a cubic yard of beer, wine and soda. We stockpile. This room literally is hemmed in on all sides now.</i><br />
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<i> Justin and his dad did a little remediation work on one of the footings for our porch on Friday while the insulation team was in the house. The footing had started to crumble so Justin reused some leftover rebar and formed up a new footing for the column.</i><br />
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<i> The white insulation helps you imaging what it will look like with walls!</i></div>
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<i>Here's a shot of the storage room all bundled up.</i></div>
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<i>Front view, complete with our kitties Tink and Pongo in the front yard. I made the porch from chocolate wafer cookies; the columns from candy canes; and the roof of the dormer from chewing gum. The main roof is green-tinted icing with coffee grounds mixed in to give that "composite roof look". </i></div>
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<i> The rear view. Our back porch looks icy and dangerous without a railing. </i></div>
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<i> From above, with a dusting of snow.</i></div>
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<i>Home sweet home</i></div>
Laura Feinsteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11994956322378049552noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5950432056117340540.post-34632733862557789312012-11-23T17:39:00.002-08:002012-11-23T17:39:41.728-08:00GrindersWe are down the last item on the to-do list for the basement before we call in the professionals: rough in electrical for accent lights under soffit in living room. Nevermind that we keep finding things to append to the end of the list. Like grinding down the concrete floor so it will be more level and take paint better. And pulling the staples from the ceiling joists. <br />
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Justin spent the best parts of black Friday grinding the concrete floor. I spent the best parts cutting out gingerbread pieces to make a miniature replica of our house (more on that later).<br />
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<i>Here's Justin attacking the last 15 sqft of concrete (behind the washer/dryer). He's had a full day of vibrating.</i></div>
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<i>A view of our new soffits looking westward.</i></div>
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Well, we made a decision on the duct. It's staying where it is. That's option #1 from the previous post. I had 3 construction professionals over and they all thought it was too minor to worry about and maybe not worth spending the money. So, we'll have a little cave of a laundry room.<br />
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Despite a really lousy forecast for this weekend, it didn't rain much
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For my part, I tinkered with a bit more electrical work and hammered in a big bag of the nail guards to protect the electrical wire from the drywall screws. And I caulked in the new window and killed the tube of caulk filling in some other random holes.<br />
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<i> An action show of Justin putting some sheathing up to fill in where the larger window once was.</i></div>
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<i>A little electrical re-org--no sooner do we get it installed then we rip it apart and redo it. This is the switch to the living area. It used to be on the wall that the storage room shares with this room but I thought it might be a better fit on an adjacent wall, twinned up with the switch (yet to be installed) for the under-soffit lighting</i>.</div>
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<i> Here's our tidy little bathroom, with a new little window. Justin had to notch each one of those studs in 3 places to fit over the plumbing in the wall.</i></div>
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Here's the crux of the issue: The ductwork is too low. Our ceilings are barely 83" in the high spots, before drywall and flooring. Our joists run North/South. Where the ducts need to traverse the ceiling in the East/West direction, they have to mount below the joists. This causes us to lose more height, another 6" to 8" which gives us a clearance of 75"-77" of headroom. Now, unfortunately, the main support beam that holds up the house is at 77" so we are stuck with that clearance when you come down the stairs and turn to the right side of the room. The left side of the room doesn't have any obstructions in the ceiling so we're capitalizing on that area as the living space. But the real stinker is the hallway to the laundry area. The duct that you must walk under is at 75"; that's just 6' 3" and it will be less when we add drywall. Justin is 6' so he barely squeaks under. So, do we do something about it? Here are the options I've come up with:<br />
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1. Do nothing; live with it. For the two of us, it isn't a big deal but maybe the prospective buyer (sometime in the long-off future) will scoff at the thoughless arrangement of ducts and soffits and offer less $$ or not even bite. We were those buyers a few years ago, puzzling over this kind of thing in other homes.<br />
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2. Reroute the ducts around the south and east perimeter of the room, building a mile of soffits around the laundry room and picking up the E/W trunk at the far east side of the house. I'm not sure that this is mechanically a sound idea for airflow. I'm sure the cost of this is high--probably $1000 or more.<br />
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3. Reroute the cold air return and offending hot air duct into the joists above allowing a little overlap into the head space but not 8 inches. This idea might be pretty expensive too and it might not deliver enough volume in the ductwork for the furnace to do it's job well. We'd be taking a 2-joist wide cold air down to 1 joist-wide and we'd be taking a 8"x24" hot air duct down to 10"x14". We could probably spare another few inches of headroom to get a hot air duct that is 15"x14" which gets us the cross sectional area that we started with. The cold air is more of a challenge.<br />
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4. Build a 30" doorway in front of this duct so that visually, the duct
is obscured from plain view. The door would open and reveal the low
hanging duct right in it's head space. I think this is a little sloppy,
construction-wise and aesthetically, it is a slight-of-hand. Any
prospective buyer would see this for what it is but because the door can
be sealed, the duct can be out of sight/out of mind until you need to
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5. Move the furnace to the center of the house, right underneath the main East/West trunk and avoid needing the low hanging duct altogether. We can carry back the branches that go to the second floor in existing joist bays. We lose square footage having to add a second utility closet for the furnace. The existing utility closet can't shrink down because the sumps are permanently located where they are on either side of the furnace. Moreover, the gas piping to the furnace would need to be rerouted as would the venting and drainage pipes for the furnace. I don't even want to guess at what this would cost but it isn't cheap. <br />
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Here's a 360 degree look at the offending duct:<br />
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<i>Looking east into the laundry room, the low duct is the one hanging North/South. The cold air return is directly above it tucked into two joist bays. If we built a door (Option #4) it would tuck in right in front of this duct, scooched to the right of the E/W duct in this photo. If we went with option #5, the furnace would relocated to where the existing framing is bumped out on the left of the photo.</i></div>
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<i>Looking west while standing in the laundry room, the low duct is all you can see.</i></div>
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<i> Here's the low duct exiting the furnace. You can see the sheet metal above the duct fencing in the cold air return in the joist bay. (Picture taken looking south)</i></div>
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<i>Here's the final view of the low duct, picture taken standing near the furnace looking northward. The duct perpendicular to the main duct travels along the main beam of the house and will be soffitted in at 6'5" along with the main beam.</i> </div>
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Leave me a comment with your thoughts. Should we make do with what we have or should we open our wallets and stimulate the economy some more?Laura Feinsteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11994956322378049552noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5950432056117340540.post-90264890459646498362012-10-14T20:44:00.001-07:002012-10-14T20:46:14.233-07:00Lights! Ducts!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Saturday it was my birthday and Paul Simon's too. I spent the better
part of the morning honoring our birthdays with an 8-album music
marathon of Paul Simon tunes while Justin and Jason, a sheet metal
journeyman that Justin knows, rearranged the ductwork in the basement.
We now have all of the necessary ductwork to heat the basement and some
of the ducts for the upstairs reorganized for optimal ceiling heights.
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<i> Justin, a sheet metal apprentice for the day, patching the old duct for reuse.</i></div>
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<i>Jason is fitting our new East/West trunk of duct with a branch for the bathroom.</i></div>
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<i>Here's my new design for the mantel. Justin gave me the urn on the right for my birthday. I plan to hang a large mirror above the mantel in lieu of that too-small artwork.</i></div>
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We amateur electricians have nearly completed the wiring for the basement lights and about 60% of the receptacles. This is my first time really working with wiring in a house. I've done little projects here and there but I've never wired up a lighting circuit until this basement project came along. Now I've got my 3-way switch badge and new breaker badge. The best news of all is that we now have a respectable number of lights in the basement to actually carry on down there without dragging around the clamp-on construction lights. Woohoo!Laura Feinsteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11994956322378049552noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5950432056117340540.post-72977934641564284182012-10-14T20:06:00.000-07:002012-10-14T20:06:07.180-07:00Cross PostWe spent a couple of weeks in Europe last month. Check out my update on my other blog: <a href="http://www.l-c-f.blogspot.com/2012/10/oktoberfest-and-spa-mania-2012.html" target="_blank">http://www.l-c-f.blogspot.com/2012/10/oktoberfest-and-spa-mania-2012.html</a>.Laura Feinsteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11994956322378049552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5950432056117340540.post-36497006117593805372012-09-06T20:03:00.000-07:002012-12-05T20:16:39.865-08:00Labor weekendWe have a theme for Labor Day weekend around here: labor. First, we made a couple of more rooms by framing up some more interior walls. We have more framing to go but we need a little rerouting of some duct work before we can finish framing the rooms. And then there are all of the soffits...(we'll be at this framing gig into November, I think.)<br />
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When we changed up the stairway lighting last month, we disconnected all of the lights in the basement so we've had a hodge podge of extension cords strung up to temporary lights. It was getting pretty annoying to feel your way down there and find a light. But, we've got switches in two rooms now and receptacles partially installed too. All in a weekend's work.<br />
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In other news, Justin and I harvested a bunch of blackberries and I whipped up 12 cans of blackberry jam (seedless!). Now that I've broken out the canner, I am planning a big can-stravaganza next weekend to fill up the larder. Laura Feinsteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11994956322378049552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5950432056117340540.post-9966346812452309822012-08-19T20:51:00.001-07:002012-08-19T20:52:12.187-07:00A few rooms<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Despite record temperatures on Friday, our weekend was mild and a little overcast--in other words, an ideal weekend to spend in the basement! We are still busy with the stud installation and now we have nearly 3 of the 4 perimeter walls up and our new bathroom has taken shape with the plumbing rough-in and some new walls. <a href="http://www.beaconhillbungalow.blogspot.com/2009/01/andtheyre-off.html">We were at this stage three years ago on a different floor in a different season.</a> <br />
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<i>Handyman, Justin, ready to fasten in a 2x4.</i> </div>
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<i> Lazyman Pongo, chillakin' with the studs.</i></div>
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<i>Our new 1/2 bath, roughed and framed in. We still need to remove the window and replace it with something smaller.</i> </div>
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<i>Standing on the west side, in Justin's future workroom looking through the bathroom and laundry room.</i> </div>
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<i>Our new crawlspace access door. This will be the only access to the secret room under the front porch.</i> </div>
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<br />Laura Feinsteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11994956322378049552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5950432056117340540.post-7310049200635343852012-08-05T20:52:00.000-07:002012-08-05T21:00:04.303-07:00Sump'thing's going on<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We are officially waterproofed in the basement. The drains and sump were installed in 2 days which barely left the cats any time to play in the world's best habitrail. I am really hoping that the big pile of dirt that the crew left in the basement overnight didn't get used as a litter box.<br />
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<i> Here's the big hole for the sump pump, right underneath the water heater.</i></div>
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<i>Pongo in the trenches. This was the BEST.GAME.EVER.</i> </div>
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This weekend, we took the project to the next level. We were able to start framing and despite lots of automated tools, we weren't that efficient at framing. We finished the entire north wall and barely started an interior wall that will be used for plumbing. Prior to framing, we hung up 6mm visqueen on the masonry and tucked it behind the drainage membrane in case there is any condensation. If that happens, it will be routed to the perimeter drain rather than the insulation we'll be putting up.<br />
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<i>Here's the north wall all framed up. This corner from the panel and back to the window will be our future storage room.</i></div>
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<i>Here's the lone interior wall--95" long that took most of Sunday to put up since there are so many pieces of plumbing and ductwork to work around (and that is without actually building any soffits yet).</i></div>
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<br />Laura Feinsteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11994956322378049552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5950432056117340540.post-43636037350871349622012-07-29T16:11:00.001-07:002012-07-29T16:22:59.549-07:00And the show begins...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Our first of our subcontractors start tomorrow on the basement. Mr. Waterproofing will be in the house breaking up concrete to install a perimeter drain. To do our part, we rearranged the entire basement so that the perimeter was unobstructed, save for the furnace.<br />
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<i>Here's a garage full of ceiling insulation that was removed for the seismic work from earlier in the year. We'll route a few new electrical circuits before reinstalling this.</i></div>
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<i>Here's the basement with all of our junk lined up in the center.</i> </div>
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<i>Here's a bouquet I picked of Russian sage and Echinacea that had fallen too far into our pathway through the garden.</i></div>
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<br />Laura Feinsteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11994956322378049552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5950432056117340540.post-1992586922550355702012-07-22T21:48:00.002-07:002012-12-05T20:16:56.093-08:00We finally got off our duffs...It's been an eventful summer and we've been enjoying the nice weather and relaxing our weekends away. In the meantime, our basement project has been languishing. But, we got a handful of proposals to fix our water problem in our basement and we are starting to think beyond the day that the perimeter drain is installed.<br />
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Over the past few weeks, I've been playing with the floor plan and thinking about how we might like to use the new space. One thing that was giving me trouble was a window in the closet that we've recently split into two closets. Who wants a window in a closet? Not me! This weekend we opted to close it up and I have to say that it looks about 100 times better on the outside of our house now. Before, we had a pair windows that were different dimensions so their appearance was lopsided.<br />
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<i>Insulated and hemmed in with some scraps of plywood. We chose not to remove the lathe on this wall because there is blown-in insulation in the stud cavity so the plywood addition makes the plane even.</i> </div>
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Another effort we took on was rewiring the three-way switch to give us a light at the top of the stairs to the basement. Three-way switches are tricky but I figured it out (on the second try). In my defense, the switch had some very confusing labeling on the hot and neutral terminals. I had thought I was wiring up hot to hot but the labeling got the better of me. It works now and all we need are the permanent light fixtures before we are ready for drywall in the stairwell.<br />
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Laura Feinsteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11994956322378049552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5950432056117340540.post-47280903086661405282012-04-09T20:23:00.000-07:002012-04-09T20:23:16.357-07:00Stepping up<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>This weekend we tackled the rebuild of the basement stairs. Remember <a href="http://www.beaconhillbungalow.blogspot.com/2010/05/we-have-had-interesting-run-with-latest.html">our last foray into stair building</a>? Luckily things went a little smoother this time.<br />
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Our project started with an argument because measuring out the stair cuts is a little tedious and involves a lot of second guessing. I had drawn it all out and done the calculations but had not handled the bottom step and top step uniquely from the others. Justin wasn't ready to trust my drawing and wanted to do one of his own but we disagreed our way into agreement and figured it out. And after marking up the board and measuring again, we cut our first stringer, perfectly the first time.<br />
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We planned ahead and installed trim stringers as well to give our stairs a finished look when we finally do finish them. <br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><i>Here's Justin smiling because these babies fit the first time and went in quickly. It was all the cutting that took eons.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbVuKBFMPqXhCNj5biw4DZKL2iIc32g4aU3Ht5Nk0eEjRj-R-HFGdMcscDCJ_qP3bR2KvulpeKv115l5EiLrzhekzzm6pGMSIGC6GFMKrJ6Ibnje7yIki5sybSuSyuzUK9l3wC68pMNO5c/s1600/DSC_0001.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbVuKBFMPqXhCNj5biw4DZKL2iIc32g4aU3Ht5Nk0eEjRj-R-HFGdMcscDCJ_qP3bR2KvulpeKv115l5EiLrzhekzzm6pGMSIGC6GFMKrJ6Ibnje7yIki5sybSuSyuzUK9l3wC68pMNO5c/s320/DSC_0001.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgj1hIBHqx1gxDjmDHWd6oyzh7zmDToprkM8_8PjUJlal-JlUl957liuacOKC7F0Bcsb-X4xvXAbjCS-jLflFwuAgNm1zabj9Witb-6CFzn-182Z12cjqQfSf9FnfvzEHQN2Av5qukKXRK/s1600/DSC_0003.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><i>Our temporarily finished product. We'll be getting some pricey fir treads to finish these up but makeshift OSB treads will work for now</i>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgj1hIBHqx1gxDjmDHWd6oyzh7zmDToprkM8_8PjUJlal-JlUl957liuacOKC7F0Bcsb-X4xvXAbjCS-jLflFwuAgNm1zabj9Witb-6CFzn-182Z12cjqQfSf9FnfvzEHQN2Av5qukKXRK/s1600/DSC_0003.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgj1hIBHqx1gxDjmDHWd6oyzh7zmDToprkM8_8PjUJlal-JlUl957liuacOKC7F0Bcsb-X4xvXAbjCS-jLflFwuAgNm1zabj9Witb-6CFzn-182Z12cjqQfSf9FnfvzEHQN2Av5qukKXRK/s320/DSC_0003.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>Laura Feinsteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11994956322378049552noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5950432056117340540.post-4337913855914240502012-03-26T19:29:00.000-07:002012-03-26T19:29:29.211-07:00In the closet<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">While I wish I had a lovely gardening photo to share with you from such a mild, dare I say warm, weekend, most of the weekend was actually spent in a 2.5'x9' closet. It is now 2 closets.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here's an overview: We had an awkward bedroom closet that was "walk in" but so narrow that we couldn't really take advantage of the space. So, we chopped it in two and have a smaller and shallower closet for the bedroom and a similarly sized little closet annexed to the kitchen. Yippee. And, we also started to rebuild the stairs to the basement to make them a little safer.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Here's Justin removing the final remnants of closet hardware so we can start building a new wall.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixlMKbXpp3U1LXJHBwoQFsyXQL_sPlV-bKuvY_VT2G3KnpxsBQroF5VF34kZAVH-Otew1NaENTjvfMml7T-ibj7TJ8vK7pwMecpvqGxfu5NvsID7_7KForvzL7T_3JEvZDn1ViNxrF-3eZ/s320/DSC_0615.JPG" width="214" /></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><i>Our new wall, making this closet magnitudes better in space efficiency. We'll need to finish this drywall before we can put some function in the closet but this will work just fine until we get to that step. </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYUompQcR5iQOx7_RdYP-6I5m60Qo9Q5ulG4Gyu-a0YjjXTS8hCHUNlltE60ZLtUWAp9BUrwruK_YaPgFVGgmg_poMU5OErcTKm_50WHRaJF3FDkHuWKOgpJ_qNAcYwHil92rrut-88lXe/s1600/DSC_0616.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYUompQcR5iQOx7_RdYP-6I5m60Qo9Q5ulG4Gyu-a0YjjXTS8hCHUNlltE60ZLtUWAp9BUrwruK_YaPgFVGgmg_poMU5OErcTKm_50WHRaJF3FDkHuWKOgpJ_qNAcYwHil92rrut-88lXe/s320/DSC_0616.JPG" width="214" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>A little demo to get into our new closet for the kitchen. </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ_cUt6R4VScU-pCw608H07AvKlK_krD0aBLgS-J-3nz7XFAjTarGqxe7a_5POHC18kBaOY_sKEBkKB2adpk6t8IlsYn39wUmdyPZw9ZqBZFZHfp1VgS5uXMgPpEgmcsUCxdCsCLppP4Jt/s1600/DSC_0621.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ_cUt6R4VScU-pCw608H07AvKlK_krD0aBLgS-J-3nz7XFAjTarGqxe7a_5POHC18kBaOY_sKEBkKB2adpk6t8IlsYn39wUmdyPZw9ZqBZFZHfp1VgS5uXMgPpEgmcsUCxdCsCLppP4Jt/s320/DSC_0621.JPG" width="214" /></a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><i>A roughed in template for a new closet. We need still need to demo some plaster under the window and we are considering modifying the window configuration too. Stay tuned for more on that in a few months.</i> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisyVmtHBExaVI6p9G6EkTKxMD7Sww1jUH6XT2XrlVD8KobvGHo9roZPj5KA8vfiiCJUMI7WIBtphRqY-nL2GYbySEUNqZVej3LbBEUE8V28_8RAV3Ai7whsyQV1lsJReS9ATqgrGLaeUmn/s1600/DSC_0622.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisyVmtHBExaVI6p9G6EkTKxMD7Sww1jUH6XT2XrlVD8KobvGHo9roZPj5KA8vfiiCJUMI7WIBtphRqY-nL2GYbySEUNqZVej3LbBEUE8V28_8RAV3Ai7whsyQV1lsJReS9ATqgrGLaeUmn/s320/DSC_0622.JPG" width="214" /></a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><i>A work in progress had us looking before we leaped. </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihnFgBe4Rm6tt9oM4WFQ-hxfZwWo-MTjDEDl3HST7CA-Ur4S3evtGcBoYRaroSrFYbffCswdJPDkWJbylK5Sow3q15KQCpSVeCNzTNSioS5-3acpB2MXHq6yU6cItKc_1iaQiRpI7_OGfN/s1600/DSC_0623.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihnFgBe4Rm6tt9oM4WFQ-hxfZwWo-MTjDEDl3HST7CA-Ur4S3evtGcBoYRaroSrFYbffCswdJPDkWJbylK5Sow3q15KQCpSVeCNzTNSioS5-3acpB2MXHq6yU6cItKc_1iaQiRpI7_OGfN/s320/DSC_0623.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Voila, One solid platform from the kitchen to the new closet! We'll get some new (used) fir flooring to tie this all together.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIuB9SEX1X7Cqfb3MC_Lqb0lGWOMaWD3-AGqVxbIwzg1_nYa-3gHKgSOzd04OSXwfXTCPSYvbEuMqKWjv_oz-O9-vQ7aeIXOuLmTk3hLmjE9tMQVJNfBuD5L4ejPkgno9n6F2jkAGqjXUy/s320/DSC_0626.JPG" width="320" /></div>Laura Feinsteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11994956322378049552noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5950432056117340540.post-18156247512506485082012-03-10T17:42:00.000-08:002012-03-10T17:42:48.528-08:00More earthquake-proofing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCJb2MqNXZPXOjaVKNsLlRLlhHmGD3otTyKfskNVz8YxBC4c-UPm5r1fIGWwcHtHVrM5D6LTgCbnZxC08_hxHiiN8cGbBw5Qm2vH5bL6BGtanzAzeEhCoew3YX8JAHc3gNUE_vsSb8XnoA/s1600/DSC01306.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCJb2MqNXZPXOjaVKNsLlRLlhHmGD3otTyKfskNVz8YxBC4c-UPm5r1fIGWwcHtHVrM5D6LTgCbnZxC08_hxHiiN8cGbBw5Qm2vH5bL6BGtanzAzeEhCoew3YX8JAHc3gNUE_vsSb8XnoA/s320/DSC01306.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>Ughh. We've had enough of this project so thank goodness it is nearly complete. Justin and I finished bolting the posts to their footings today and just have a few joist hangers to left to go. See what else we've been up to on my other <a href="http://www.l-c-f.blogspot.com/">blog</a>.Laura Feinsteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11994956322378049552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5950432056117340540.post-90042866965782337992012-02-20T20:56:00.001-08:002012-02-20T20:56:49.000-08:00Hang tight<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We're nearly ready to shake the shack now with the addition of several more components this past weekend. Justin has been a busy man painstakingly nailing and bolting in dozens of clips and plates. He has the splinters to show for it. And we have only broken one $16 drill bit so far with this project.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here's a rundown of the past week:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>A new structural wall: Believe it or not, those ceiling joists were just nailed in with no structural support under them. Now they've got twin 2x6s to rest on and take a load off.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTNImM2XTqsNNrNapGSbiqJTimQ5q0QJzwK1CsCBmjFPguDRpoyD5sZBRnnseCAnO5B6yB1XVqzdd-R3DXjAjDUYPsbw0ntzRwTO6M8Ydbi8bjHrV-ylQED5csZGTBeq90sneyms260AgQ/s320/DSC01281.JPG" width="320" /></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><i>This corner bracket is going to keep that beam from sliding off the posts.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI3RFnKeEJ5q3KerpfzpNuKimUZbC8VWdnT-DGiF_8_6vkr5AEHnnIZBYD62k71hG8rymb65XdBxC1tBSgqZmkhOd-Ditg_hRk05DgFyBAZKBjIK0cn2tCnI_5NEoX2P88BI2fOWR1hKT9/s1600/DSC01282.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI3RFnKeEJ5q3KerpfzpNuKimUZbC8VWdnT-DGiF_8_6vkr5AEHnnIZBYD62k71hG8rymb65XdBxC1tBSgqZmkhOd-Ditg_hRk05DgFyBAZKBjIK0cn2tCnI_5NEoX2P88BI2fOWR1hKT9/s320/DSC01282.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i> Our footings are secured to the posts now. </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjrMXMf-yQIvC9-RM9nwvA8eWpgNYiQ25J0FGeq4UaRAfGC5-_BFaEBoehDGJ7P-twrIsdWuibmH2RspAPUP0KIfcrHwyGyipXHKx_zZXRCQuOzH2mL3VTsMUWQEkqDTuoaOzppCp78Kao/s1600/DSC01284.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjrMXMf-yQIvC9-RM9nwvA8eWpgNYiQ25J0FGeq4UaRAfGC5-_BFaEBoehDGJ7P-twrIsdWuibmH2RspAPUP0KIfcrHwyGyipXHKx_zZXRCQuOzH2mL3VTsMUWQEkqDTuoaOzppCp78Kao/s320/DSC01284.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>These wee little blue screws are holding the pony wall to the stem wall.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgaTK1aVo83Rm51r0q6xrkXtBrrI8_ZgDt206CQd7rYeTezso2sKY-G_pl-zFDPIvHYOuCYntfIFrGWgKluCP3L0mQM6cjoJJHjWNaJJ0CUWorMw2G6ygIqDJcNDVVUDsvg-yfLCAcDbqy/s1600/DSC01285.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgaTK1aVo83Rm51r0q6xrkXtBrrI8_ZgDt206CQd7rYeTezso2sKY-G_pl-zFDPIvHYOuCYntfIFrGWgKluCP3L0mQM6cjoJJHjWNaJJ0CUWorMw2G6ygIqDJcNDVVUDsvg-yfLCAcDbqy/s320/DSC01285.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>Laura Feinsteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11994956322378049552noreply@blogger.com0