Framing underway
A trio of carpenters originally from Ukraine have added the floor joists for part of the backroom floor yesterday. A large part of the work involved cutting out the 115 year old 2x8's that formed the beam sitting on the old foundation. It was replaced by a stack of two 2x4s and a 2x8 with 2x4s supporting that from a concrete footing and sill at the level of the cellar slab.
Around the perimeter of the foundation a pressure treated sill was added with styrofoam fabric between it and the concrete. Then, nailed to the sill were 2x8s which formed the band joist and rim joists. Upon these joists will rest the 1st floor walls and hanging off them and the sill are the floor joists.
At the south side three floor joists went in without hangers, then a double floor joist which will support the stairs to the basement. I don't know how they will support the rest of the laundry room floor. They may need to wait for the basement floor to go up before they can continue with completion of the 1st floor, as I expect they will need posts to support additional joists.
To work in the basement, the carpenters run boards across the trench to the foundation, then climb down a ladder from the foundation to the dirt floor.
Some of the original siding was removed and ripped so it can't be re-used. I did get one piece intact. The larger 2x8s had at least one piece of the original siding. I will want to make sure the useable parts of the 2x8s are retained.
The joists mounted to the 2x8 stretched across the wall were nailed but not hung. Each joist has many nails. I would not be surprised they used 25 nails to hold it. Yet, we purchased hangers from Parr. I expect today they will add the hangers, at least on that wall.
There are a bunch of pieces of plywood left. I would guess these will be used for the subfloor.
The agenda for today probably involves adding the hangers and putting on the subfloor. Then, on Monday they can bring in the bucket machine to fill in the trench.
Before drywall goes up, I am hoping they plan to sprayfoam the cracks under the joists, subfloor, band joists and sill, then put in insulation in that box between pairs of joists.
It was a hot day. Outside a slight breeze made it tolerable. In my office, though: not good. So I worked from the dining room. Alas, this was right by where they were cutting the old and putting in the new lumber: very noisy.
I got no programming done, instead I was coordinating and working on requests.
By the end of the day I posted photos, prepared a payment stamped envelope, and had totally forgot about the new Star Trek episode or the new What They Do In the Shadows episode. I heated the last of the macaroni and cheese and we watched Dr. Who. Then Marisa reminded me of Star Trek. As late as it was I watched that, too.
I decided to go ahead and write a check to pay CenturyLink for internet now. My phone bill account is way overpaid, so won't be waiting for bills from that for a while. Because CL has messed up on the Internet payments, I am no longer a month ahead (I have done this so I can mail a few days late each month without being penalized for it). So this check was for August and another month. In late August, then, I can get back to $65 checks to CL. Eventually my home phone account will get close to zero and then I can resume paying the $35 a month for that.
By then, perhaps, the parent company of CenturyLink will have transferred my CL internet to its new company "Something Fiber" (I forget the word...I will fix later). If not, however, I will send in my payments with separate envelopes in an envelope, which I hope will fix the check cashing issue with CL.
Oh, my computer glasses snapped yesterday. The plastic frames could not handle being jammed in my shirt pocket and broke. I taped it up to continue using them, but I am not happy. Besides how bad it looks, the tape runs over the nose piece, rubbing my nose. I have had the glasses for two years so I guess they deserve to be replaced.
This morning I learn that Tony Bennett died. He was 96. He did retire last year, but had been dealing with the affects of Alzheimer's Disease for years before that. The last time Marisa and I saw him in concert there were hints of his memory difficulties. My own memories are faulty to some degree: I think we saw him in concert twice here in Portland Oregon, but I know at least once: May 27, 2011, which I related in a post to Live Journal. In that post I did not mention seeing him previously, so maybe it was just that one time. I could possibly be confusing that with the one time we saw Eartha Kitt.
In any case I find his death a great loss as a human being, a musician and an artist. He seemed to be progressive and connected his love of Jazz and rhythm to both classical and pop...and was not afraid of working with artists younger then him like Lady Gaga.
Around the perimeter of the foundation a pressure treated sill was added with styrofoam fabric between it and the concrete. Then, nailed to the sill were 2x8s which formed the band joist and rim joists. Upon these joists will rest the 1st floor walls and hanging off them and the sill are the floor joists.
At the south side three floor joists went in without hangers, then a double floor joist which will support the stairs to the basement. I don't know how they will support the rest of the laundry room floor. They may need to wait for the basement floor to go up before they can continue with completion of the 1st floor, as I expect they will need posts to support additional joists.
To work in the basement, the carpenters run boards across the trench to the foundation, then climb down a ladder from the foundation to the dirt floor.
Some of the original siding was removed and ripped so it can't be re-used. I did get one piece intact. The larger 2x8s had at least one piece of the original siding. I will want to make sure the useable parts of the 2x8s are retained.
The joists mounted to the 2x8 stretched across the wall were nailed but not hung. Each joist has many nails. I would not be surprised they used 25 nails to hold it. Yet, we purchased hangers from Parr. I expect today they will add the hangers, at least on that wall.
There are a bunch of pieces of plywood left. I would guess these will be used for the subfloor.
The agenda for today probably involves adding the hangers and putting on the subfloor. Then, on Monday they can bring in the bucket machine to fill in the trench.
Before drywall goes up, I am hoping they plan to sprayfoam the cracks under the joists, subfloor, band joists and sill, then put in insulation in that box between pairs of joists.
It was a hot day. Outside a slight breeze made it tolerable. In my office, though: not good. So I worked from the dining room. Alas, this was right by where they were cutting the old and putting in the new lumber: very noisy.
I got no programming done, instead I was coordinating and working on requests.
By the end of the day I posted photos, prepared a payment stamped envelope, and had totally forgot about the new Star Trek episode or the new What They Do In the Shadows episode. I heated the last of the macaroni and cheese and we watched Dr. Who. Then Marisa reminded me of Star Trek. As late as it was I watched that, too.
I decided to go ahead and write a check to pay CenturyLink for internet now. My phone bill account is way overpaid, so won't be waiting for bills from that for a while. Because CL has messed up on the Internet payments, I am no longer a month ahead (I have done this so I can mail a few days late each month without being penalized for it). So this check was for August and another month. In late August, then, I can get back to $65 checks to CL. Eventually my home phone account will get close to zero and then I can resume paying the $35 a month for that.
By then, perhaps, the parent company of CenturyLink will have transferred my CL internet to its new company "Something Fiber" (I forget the word...I will fix later). If not, however, I will send in my payments with separate envelopes in an envelope, which I hope will fix the check cashing issue with CL.
Oh, my computer glasses snapped yesterday. The plastic frames could not handle being jammed in my shirt pocket and broke. I taped it up to continue using them, but I am not happy. Besides how bad it looks, the tape runs over the nose piece, rubbing my nose. I have had the glasses for two years so I guess they deserve to be replaced.
This morning I learn that Tony Bennett died. He was 96. He did retire last year, but had been dealing with the affects of Alzheimer's Disease for years before that. The last time Marisa and I saw him in concert there were hints of his memory difficulties. My own memories are faulty to some degree: I think we saw him in concert twice here in Portland Oregon, but I know at least once: May 27, 2011, which I related in a post to Live Journal. In that post I did not mention seeing him previously, so maybe it was just that one time. I could possibly be confusing that with the one time we saw Eartha Kitt.
In any case I find his death a great loss as a human being, a musician and an artist. He seemed to be progressive and connected his love of Jazz and rhythm to both classical and pop...and was not afraid of working with artists younger then him like Lady Gaga.