More of the same... extended Memorial weekend edition!

Screwed down some more of the subfloor in the kitchen, addition and the laundry room over the past few days. All the subfloor that's accessible is now screwed down. I also cut out one piece of subfloor in the doorway to the 1/2 bath so the wood installers could get into that space.

Installed more blocking under the addition to stiffen up the subfloor in there. Heather cut the pieces while I was in the crawlspace. Our first round of this work on Friday used one 8' 2x4. Saturday, we used another three 2x4s. There are still some spots I would like to block, but we'll have to do that later.

So, on to Sunday. We had to tackle the wallpaper residue so we could paint the walls so the drywaller could get in and install drywall and then tape and mud. They can't mud over wallpaper residue. You can't do anything except wallpaper over wallpaper residue.So, we spent about 6 hours there doing that.

Then, we went home to have some burgers. Yum.

Monday, we spent some time cleaning up the upstairs and adjusting priorities. The contractor told us the wood floor people want to start upstairs rather than lay wood on the first floor. This is to deconflict with the drywall work. So, we had to shift and get everything ready for that work. So, I took out the carpet runner in the hall.

And the one on the stairs.

Then, Heather spent a couple of hours cleaning up the upstairs rooms.

She also took out a couple of nails and a tack strip in the master bath and a couple of small tack strip pieces left over in one of the bedrooms.

Bonus feature for this post! We found this under the addition in the crawlspace.

Spray foam and in wall activities

Spray foam guys came and were able to do part of the job.

Thus, we had a window of time to install our in wall cord management system. Heather and I met at the house and discussed strategy, then picked up Sydney and had dinner. I went back over for about 2 hours and completed the work. I also installed that second 2x4 for mounting the TV on.

One long Tuesday night

Prior to the spray foam/cellulose installers, we needed to run speaker wire. We didn't want to run it along the walls or the floors so we ran it in the walls and ceiling.

This only took us about 3 hours to do, but meant that we arrived home about 11pm. Sydney was with us the whole time. I was amazed we didn't have a meltdown. Oh, and sydney was well behaved too.

One long weekend

Brian came up for the weekend and helped with a lot of things.

First, though, the roofers came to replace the membrane roof.

They also replaced some pieces of plywood. It was 1/2" again.

And repaired some of the pieces that were chewed up and/or rotted.

They laid down foam to create a slope so water wouldn't pool in the middle of the roof.

Applying the membrane.

Then, a bunch of fiddly bits. Fiddly bits always seem to take forever.

All this was completed on Friday, except for one piece of trim which didn't get sent correctly.

I spent a bit of time pulling some more carpet pad staples and Heather took out some closet components (doors and shelf parts) to allow access to the wood floor for the flooring crew.

Here is a list of the things Brian and I did:

Installed ceiling fan boxes
Ran new wiring to fan boxes
Installed new switches for fan and fan lights
Changed switched outlets so they were constant hot
Removed the rest of the 5/8" ply subfloor in the addition
Added some blocking under the addition subfloor to stiffen the floor (at the sliding glass doorway and at the walkway between the addition and kitchen - both high traffic areas)
Added some blocking under the toilet since it was unclear how much water damage there might be due to toilet leak
Changed a leaking S trap in the full bathroom
Changed a leaking toilet seal in the full bathroom
Changed the toilet shutoff valve from crappy to a 1/4 turn ball valve

Addition (or subtraction of) subfloor

Just heard back from the contractor who spoke with the flooring people.

Remember this?

Well, it turns out that we can remove the top layer completely throughout the addition. This will mean that the floor will be seamless in the addition, a minimal transition between the laundry room and addition, and little to no transition in the walkway between the kitchen and addition by the pantry. Score.

Well, score from the perspective of flat flooring. Now, I have to remove a bunch more subfloor. Well, it beats scraping wallpaper glue residue. Don't tell Heather I said that.

Laundry upgrades, subfloor subfloor subfloor, master closet

Last time I left you, it was with this:

 I know this isn't laundry room related, or subfloor related or even master closet related. But, I think it has a certain drama so I'm opening with it.

Well, that became this after a little cleanup.

Which revealed itself to be more like this...

Now, for those who aren't keeping track, and I don't blame you if you're not, that's two in traps, one from the first picture above, a second whole one from the second picture above (also on display in the third picture) and all the rest of the bits and pieces. On display are what I would call the unique identifiers. So, that makes 20 total.

The good news is that there doesn't seem to be any more live ones around. I've had traps out for the last week and the bait is still there. I don't even have the traps set anymore.

Well, on the subject of this post, the laundry room. First, there was removal of the rest of this wall between the garage entry and the laundry room.

That was to make room for the pocket door and to install this LVL beam. Now, the pocket door will be flush inside the wall without needing to build out a false wall. Saves us 4" on each side of the room.

You'll, also notice a lack of strapping and other basic support structure in there. That's because we were able to raise the ceiling height to line up with the 2x10s above and join them into the 2x12s below.

This is the second LVL beam which will house the other pocket door. We gained several inches of height in this room because of this. Now the ceiling height will match kitchen.

 On to some subfloor.

We had the idea to try and remove some of the subfloor in the addition because whoever built it did a terrible job aligning the floors with the original construction. With the subfloors left alone, we are looking at the necessity of transitions in two places, addition to laundry room doorway and between the kitchen and the addition near the new pantry. Because of the significant height differential between the addition and the laundry room, we decided to try to lessen that delta. So, this,

 and this,

happened. Now, we are looking at three transitions. Well, why three instead of two? The transition between the addition and laundry room was over one inch in height and we're going to do tile over that. That's bad for tile and it is a huge delta to overcome. So, we are lessening the delta in one place which requires a delta at the joint you see above. I also spent a bit of quality time with my oscillating tool (what did we do before these existed???) and trimmed up that subfloor with the sliding glass track. Also moved over to do some more work with the oscillating tool on this mess.

Since we aren't taking out the door, it is impossible to remove the subfloor completely. The door was installed on top of that subfloor so we have to cut around everything. Yes, that pic above is old and I didn't take another one for this post. Guess this blog won't be up for a Pulitzer.

Remember this?

Well, it became this:

and, finally, this:

Really opens up the place. Well, that was all I could get done in one Friday. Until next time.