House: framing
Mar. 4th, 2008 10:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
glaurungIn our last episode, we learned that Shawn and his crew are very efficient at tearing things down. Considering how much practice Shawn got at destroying things on the Holmes on Homes show, this is not surprising. On January 15, after only three or four days of work, the garage, basement ceiling, bathroom, and various walls were gone.
A mere five days later, the skeletons of most of the new walls were up:
The front room had been smallified from a living room into a bedroom:
Large holes had been dug in our basement floor (to enable moving the laundry room from a rather foolish and cramped location to a more sensible place in the huge furnace room):
And large piles of dirt were everywhere:
(Note the spaghetti tangle of electrical wires; also note the furnace room window, of which we will have more to say in the next post).
Outside, the ground was snow-free for the first time in several weeks, and there were post holes for the new accessible entrance, skirted by more piles of dirt:
And instead of a bin, we had a huge pile of junk on the lawn, awaiting the arrival of a bin:
(that thing that looks like a window frame is actually the old hatch to the attic)
All this despite the fact that Shawn had been laid up with a cough for several days when one of our ducts attacked him with a faceful of toxic dust. I took a teakettle and some throat-soothing tea to the house for him:
Finally, reason 1 why we are very glad we hired Shawn:
Note the trivial collection of chips in the edge of the frame at the bottom. That happened when Shawn and his crew were putting discarded studs out through the window. Shawn's response was to volunteer to buy and install us a new window at no charge.
PS: for those who are curious, the fate of the cast iron bathtub:
Is that it disappeared after a few days, as did some of the studs from demolished walls, and goodness knows what all else; it seems the neighbourhood we are moving into has a very strong scavenging/freecycling culture, more so than normal even for Toronto.
A mere five days later, the skeletons of most of the new walls were up:
The front room had been smallified from a living room into a bedroom:
Large holes had been dug in our basement floor (to enable moving the laundry room from a rather foolish and cramped location to a more sensible place in the huge furnace room):
And large piles of dirt were everywhere:
(Note the spaghetti tangle of electrical wires; also note the furnace room window, of which we will have more to say in the next post).
Outside, the ground was snow-free for the first time in several weeks, and there were post holes for the new accessible entrance, skirted by more piles of dirt:
And instead of a bin, we had a huge pile of junk on the lawn, awaiting the arrival of a bin:
(that thing that looks like a window frame is actually the old hatch to the attic)
All this despite the fact that Shawn had been laid up with a cough for several days when one of our ducts attacked him with a faceful of toxic dust. I took a teakettle and some throat-soothing tea to the house for him:
Finally, reason 1 why we are very glad we hired Shawn:
Note the trivial collection of chips in the edge of the frame at the bottom. That happened when Shawn and his crew were putting discarded studs out through the window. Shawn's response was to volunteer to buy and install us a new window at no charge.
PS: for those who are curious, the fate of the cast iron bathtub:
Is that it disappeared after a few days, as did some of the studs from demolished walls, and goodness knows what all else; it seems the neighbourhood we are moving into has a very strong scavenging/freecycling culture, more so than normal even for Toronto.