Dust Everywhere
It was a busy weekend here in Pigeon Point. Saturday said goodbye to the kitchen (many thanks to our demolition crew: Eric, Sasha, and Justin; you guys rock!), Sunday we junked the furnace, and Monday we trashed the foyer. Up until this weekend we were doing a pretty good job keeping the jobsite clean, but now there is Dust Everywhere. As I write this in our upstairs “living room”, I see dust on the window sill that doesn’t belong. Perhaps this dust is traveling through the gaping hole in the kitchen ceiling, which currently provides a nice view for any patron of our second floor bathroom?
Speaking of which, check out the hack-job performed by a long-gone plumber. Four joists in a row are cut through to the point of worthlessness.
The dumpster is 95% full. And we still have the kitchen floor to rip up. If it fits, it’ll be just barely. We started to remove the floor tonight but it bested our patience and our appetites, so the remainder will have to wait a few days. We’ll keep the dumpster through this next weekend and hopefully have it hauled on Monday next.
We got a $100 gift card for the Home Deposit in the mail today, a gift from our friendly credit union which is financing our “little project”. I had a good laugh on Saturday as I was loading stuff into the dumpster and one of our new neighbors from up the street walked by and asked if we were “working on a house project?” “Uh, yeah, a little one”, I said.
With the demolition nearly complete I need to start thinking about the next phase: framing. We’ll be replacing some parts of the sub floor, moving and adding a few walls, and opening up a space with a pretty large beam. I need to figure out what order this is happening in, and what exactly we need from the lumber yard. I know I’m going to have to special-order the beams.
5 Comments
Gary·May 31, 2005
Bet you never imagined a kitchen skylight! You can use some angle iron to reinforce those joists. If you don’t repair them then be sure that no one heavy sits on your “throne”. They may end up in the kitchen!
Brian H·June 1, 2005
on the job ya just get the skytrac to mush down the dumpster when its full. when i had mine at home full, i started looking for the operator. I ended up standing in the dumpster with a 12” splitface block repeatedly throwing down as hard as i could. about 50 throws gave me an extra foot of dumpster.
when they picked it up they dropped me off a 2 yd dumpster on wheels that gets picked up weekly, like a bussiness. it costs 10 bux a week but i had to commit to 6 months. wich shouldnt be a problem. 6 months will cost 240. it cost 300 + 90 for the big (30 yd) the 2 yd will be 48 yd total. i dont understand the math. I can cancel it early but i dont see it happening.
Brian from wi
Jocelyn·June 1, 2005
That is sure a hack job if I ever saw one. We had something similar under our bathroom on the 1st floor. Steve put in a new joist to reinforce it.
Congrats on finishing the demo (mostly). I bet you feel a sense of accomplishment and of course: fatigue. :)
Derek·June 1, 2005
I would sister the joists, with 2x10’s or whatever they are. If the sistered joists are the same span, that’s ideal. You can glue and screw them as well. With all the hacks in our house, I’m surprised are joists are all in good shape.
Nick·June 1, 2005
Hi Derek — yep, that’s the plan. They’re 2x8’s and I’ll likely sister on both sides of at least two of the joists for the entire span. We’ll likely add a tub up there at some point, and I want it to be structurally sound.
The plumbing will be dropped below the joists, as I’m lowering the ceiling on this side of the kitchen anyways.