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.
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