July 2001 page showing progress on Xavier Rd addition project.
July 1, 2001 (Built the beam on driveway at Betty's
place.)
Needed a counter weight to transport.
July 2, 2001 Beam in place, openings between
crawl spaces, duct extended. Ready for the joists.
July 3, 2001 Rained until 4. Did this
from 4:30 until dark.
July 4, 2001
Follow the
link for the pictures.
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Sub-floor and two walls. Ran out of steam on a
very steamy afternoon.
Did some inside work during rain.
Forgot camera until
late in afternoon.
Joan and Jackie fixed a great meal for us.
Dan
brought a screw machine that put a screw in sub-floor every 2 seconds which
meant we were able to put up two walls.
Also forgot to
get a picture of Driver Dave and Erroll.
They stopped to say Hi and were
recruited to help with first wall.
Could not have done it without them... Great
day for the project.
July 5, 2001
Final outside wall
Judy nailed the insulation board and Wolfie guarded her.
July 6, 2001
Did not do any photo work.
Lots of planning
on joining roof line, extending hallway from old into new part and other stuff.
July 7, 2001
Set all but two short interior walls, cut entrance to crawl space and did about
half top plate.
Over 90, heat index 105+... Slowed us down a bit.
July 8, 2001
No pictures. It was Sunday.
Extreme heat.
Storms.
Trip to Clinton.
Still managed to remove small wall inside so could layout last wall in new part.
July 9, 2001
No pictures. Finished top plates.
Judy
nailed joining plates to ceiling joists while I worked on tearing down old
overhang and fly rafter.
July 10, 2001
Very hot.
Removed remaining gable siding and frame. Removed fly rafter and associated
framing.
Now down to the part that joins new roof.
Also did the same to the wall
and aligned the new wall with the old wall inside.
Cleaned up all the trash
associated with the tear out.
Quit at 2:30 and went to Lafayette for
material shopping.
Before July 10
After July 10
Brick samples trying to match old brick.
July 11, 2001
Major work was setting the ceiling joists and backfilling and leveling the dirt.
July 12, 2001
Ridge board by 10 a.m. and finished the rafters
about 7:30
Welcome vistors
Louise Bush, Jerry Klyaic and Peggy Klyaic
July 13, 2001
Finished nailing and bracing rafters and ridge.
Over
half of decking in place. Should finish Sat.
July 14, 2001
Bob Ordway
came to help. Thanks Bob.
Finished
decking, put us fascia boards and fly rafter, put down black roof paper.
Ready
to hit it hard inside for a few days.
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Chris was here destructing drywall.
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July 17, 2001
Cleanup.
Should have taken picture
of truck before we took to landfill. Chris loaded it down.
July 18
Chris worked in
kitchen getting ready for new cabinets and many other items that need done.
I
did a lot of framing not worthy of picture.
Chris and Judy took cats
to the vet in afternoon.
July 19 and 20
Worked on walls and taking down last part
of closet in old part and started putting down floor.
Did so much that was
not huge project but was necessary. Chris and I also made return trip to
Vet to pick up the cats.
July 21-29
Did a lot of inside work that does not show up well on photos. Spent lot of time in attic of old house doing some wiring changes plus the final tearing out of old drywall in bedroom and hallway that was necessary for the joining of new drywall.
Did get exterior door and both windows in place.
Wiring in addition should be done this evening and insulation by Monday. Hope to be ready to turn over to drywall contractor by Tues morning.
Judy continues to do nailing on the floor and is approaching completion.
Heading to the attic now while cool. Maybe will add some photos this evening.
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The above update from early Sunday July 29 sounded so good but went downhill after arriving at the house.
Big event was the discovery that the cold air return had separated at a joint in the large 16" pipe at the elbow above grill in hall.
Appeared that had been like that for years and had been sucking air and dirt from the attic.
Had to reconnect (fun) and then put new insulation around it. Finished at 12:30.
7 hours in an attic is not the way to spend Sunday morning.
Spent the rest of the day working on whatever needed done in attempt to finish wiring.
Monday July 30
Still had list with 22 items needing done before drywall.
Long hot day finishing off many of them.
Tuesday July 31, 2001
Started at 6 am.
Finished wiring, ran drain vent through wall so roofers could roof around boot, did all ceiling insulation (except where they have to frame skylight in morning).
Went home at three to eat, shower and sleep til 5:00.
Went back at 6 and did the wall insulation and finished about 10.
Ready for drywall
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