Week 13 – Completion of the Main Story, start of second story

Day 91 – It’s been a while since I updated the blog but we’ve been busy—family, work, home, opening day of crabbing season—a man has his priorities eh?  The basement has been rough framed and the main floor as well.  This week we start the framing of the stairs to the second floor and laying the second floor joists/plywood floor.

Let’s recap where we have been the past 6 weeks:

1. Completed all interior walls of the basement; including the stairs to the main floor.  We had a minor “change order” for the stairs—instead of walking into the mechanical room and then making a hard 180 degree turn to the upstairs, we added length to the stairs and shortened the height of the landing deck in the basement.  This resulted in less stair treads in the basement and allowed us to have dual exits—to the mechanical room and the garage.  We had to give up the linen closet in the hallway and move it into the second bathroom—we’re ok with this.
2. Main floor had lots of framing:
1. All exterior walls and windows
2. All interior walls, including kitchen, great room, hallway, Den, bathroom 2, master bedroom, master bath, master dressing room, laundry room, pantry, north and east entrance (read; lots of 2x4’s!)

Some updated Photos:

Interior basement stairs

Main floor (looks small)

Big blue working on the first wall in the master bathroom

Rear(east) walls

From the vineyard

Mainfloor Panorama

19”x 5 ½" x 24’ beam – biggest in the house

Supervisor and Troublemaker

Until next time ...