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We've had this project scheduled for a while, but the contractor just got free to start on the job today.
Our house is kind of like a lake house, but no lake to be found. There is a "loft" area on our second floor that is really too small to serve as a loft. It has really been more of a nuisance with the sound echos and heat loss than the aesthetics really provide. With the sun-room that we once had on the back of the house, I wonder if it was more of a 80s - 90s convection heating concept than anything.
Either way, we've decided that the square footage was more valuable to us than the aesthetics, so we're closing it off. We're also correcting a sag in the floor of about 1 1/2" as the main beams were undersized.
I stayed around long enough to get him in, but came home to several changes already in the couple of hours he was here.
Two major changes was removing the railing and the duct work that the previous owner added. The original duct work for downstairs was buried under the concrete floor. So I'm guessing you can imagine what happens with buried duct work in an area with a high water table. As a matter of fact, the duct has become part of the sump pump system for the lower level of my house.
We'll be dropping the entire ceiling downstairs. I've found some questionable work done by the previous owner and besides the spray texture doesn't quite match between some work he had done and the original ceiling texture. Again, the contractor dropped the duct work addition today and removed all the railing for the loft.
I'm hoping he'll get the loft closed up prior to this weekend or we'll be chasing after the grandson and making sure he's staying away from it this weekend. We've learned that the phrase "Pops, you think I can make it?" is the 3 year old equivalent of "here, hold my beer".
More to come as he gets the ceiling open. I was hoping to inset the steel beam we're having added, but had a revelation as I realized the main electrical and gas line for the house both go through the existing wood beam that we may not be doing that and setting it below the existing.
Our house is kind of like a lake house, but no lake to be found. There is a "loft" area on our second floor that is really too small to serve as a loft. It has really been more of a nuisance with the sound echos and heat loss than the aesthetics really provide. With the sun-room that we once had on the back of the house, I wonder if it was more of a 80s - 90s convection heating concept than anything.
Either way, we've decided that the square footage was more valuable to us than the aesthetics, so we're closing it off. We're also correcting a sag in the floor of about 1 1/2" as the main beams were undersized.
I stayed around long enough to get him in, but came home to several changes already in the couple of hours he was here.
Two major changes was removing the railing and the duct work that the previous owner added. The original duct work for downstairs was buried under the concrete floor. So I'm guessing you can imagine what happens with buried duct work in an area with a high water table. As a matter of fact, the duct has become part of the sump pump system for the lower level of my house.
We'll be dropping the entire ceiling downstairs. I've found some questionable work done by the previous owner and besides the spray texture doesn't quite match between some work he had done and the original ceiling texture. Again, the contractor dropped the duct work addition today and removed all the railing for the loft.
I'm hoping he'll get the loft closed up prior to this weekend or we'll be chasing after the grandson and making sure he's staying away from it this weekend. We've learned that the phrase "Pops, you think I can make it?" is the 3 year old equivalent of "here, hold my beer".
More to come as he gets the ceiling open. I was hoping to inset the steel beam we're having added, but had a revelation as I realized the main electrical and gas line for the house both go through the existing wood beam that we may not be doing that and setting it below the existing.
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