June 26-28 WorkWeekend!!!

Before we began, a moment to remember the old bathroom. All that wood at the sill plate is but a mirage, it is totally rotted out up about 18 inches on the wall.

The order is given, "remove the wall...."

Our first try was to follow the old wall by re-laying the brick, oh wait did we mention they used a 4 inch wide brick "and" it slopes downhill off the foundation that was poured? Yeah just a few small details that are not known till you rip out the wall and then it starts to rain.
Must think quick, it's also 4pm on Sunday.

New foundation is wood, much easier to fix the slope problem and make sure we make it all fit together.

Funny thing, I never looked at this as a wood foundation solution, the bricks must have mystified me!!!!

The rain cleared my head.

Completed foundation. It is level at the sill plate and ready for the floor joists. Glued and screwed the treated OSB really tightened up the wall pieces.

Working on Monday morning. I was pretty tired by this point and really appreciate the kids not bugging me. Kathy was helping and she kept the kids doing other stuff. We boxed it up and called it a weekend. Next trip we will frame in the floor joists and then replace the missing wall framing. After that, OSB the floor area and run the vent pipe for the sewer. We need to cut the flange on the toilet, another fun job......

June 19th work day

Well the old walls are all gone!!! And we have been pushing to finish the flooring, down to only one sheet to install to complete the main floor.

The old loft will now be dismantled and the new loft will be installed. A support wall need to be installed before the new loft is built. Next big project week is the old bathroom wall.