Tag Archives: Home Re-Construction

Tales of us working on our house.

The Downstairs Bedroom

Five months later, we have finally started reconstruction of the room! It was a long winter… but that’s no excuse. We just bit off a little more than we could chew at that time. This past week I was able to remove the remaining floor joists, install a new header joist and band joists, and install most of the floor joists and some of the bridging. Hopefully I’ll be able to finish the remaining bridging during the week after work so I can start working on the floor insulation this coming weekend.

Until next time...
Erik

The Downstairs Bedroom

The Husbear got in another few hours deconstructing the room today. He completed pulling all the wall boards off down to the studs, and then removed the floorboards down to the joists. Some of the joists were bad. Some weren’t even supported between the run, and some had even broken off the foundation! Well, the project price just went up! We temporarily propped up (with the help of a hydraulic jack) some of the runs under the middle of the house with cinder blocks and 2x6s. We’ll have to go back and check the entire under-flooring of the remainder of the house so we don’t have any surprises later.

Until next time...
Erik

October 17, 2003

I can say this officially now–I got a promotion at work, and will be moving to another team. I’m a little scared about the job change (which I guess is to be expected), but am really looking forward to it. This will be my first salaried position with the company (I had been hourly up until now), so I think the biggest change will be no longer “punching the clock.”

Until next time...
Erik