March 22, 2006
Basement: Final Framing
Final framing is basically done. Finishing soffits tomorrow morning, and the rest of the walls are up. Bathroom? Check. Utility room wall? Check.
Here's the wall separating the tv-room from the Utility room. You can see the French double doors to be installed in the background. For future use, I've pre-built a doorway opening (and then reinforced it) so that in future it would be a cakewalk to add a door if we decide to add a bedroom. It also serves to get stuff out of that room until we get the double-doors in!
This wall was a comedy of errors, and served as our Mistake of the Week for last week.
So...I've been saying that small walls take just as long as big walls to build, but this one proved us wrong. We even went out to lunch just to think about how to get it up correctly with some stability.
This is another view showing the utility wall connecting to two small walls creating a corner that rolls into the bathroom door wall. Those small walls meant we didn't have room to lift the 14 foot wall into place...
It also shows how we had to sandwich the pocket door between two walls (and transition from 2x6 walls to 2x4 walls) and had to duck it under the ducts.
Here's a not-that-great picture showing some of the bathroom walls, viewed through the door opening and the pain-in-the-ass pocket door frame we had to install. Amazing how many different planes we had to figure out how to be plumb in.
Here's a better view from the inside, showing the pole we needed to line up with and some of the odd framing to find somewhere to anchor the dang thing.
The concrete slopes on the floor, so we had to raise the door at some points. The joists are covered by large ducts that hang down so there's nothing to attach the door to, except the foundation wall. Which also slopes. Then we have to line it up with the steel column which holds the house up and which serves as the other side of the wall. Then we need to get the top of the pocket frame to be square, plumb, and stable with some interesting framing. Sheesh!
Posted by BilFish at March 22, 2006 06:57 AM