July 7, 2007

catch up!!!

OK
I am severely behind with blogging
but june was devoted to planning a couple of community events
and i stopped drinking coffee
(read: i need more sleep)
so i got a bit bogged down
thankfully, renovation is going full steam ahead
(well sometimes not exactly full steam, but that's another story)
so i have a bit of catch up to do

since we did remove walls
and since we wanted to stick as much new plumbing into existing ceilings
we needed some structural reinforcement
that's where these guys came in handy:
LVL for supporting beams & heavy duty hangers to support the new joists

below are two views of the ceiling for what will be the kitchen/dining area.
the LVL was used to create support where a wall was taken out

the ceiling to the left (over the kitchen area) will be dropped to conceal the beam, accommodate venting, a/c etc.
the ceiling in the dining area will be go back up to original height
(that plaster work was too far gone to repair)

exploratory work was done in the ceiling of the parlor floor to see if we could run the plumbing lines from the top floor without creating a soffit in the front hall

we can:
views of the sistering and pocketing of the joists from the top and the bottom

next up: framing

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