Category Archives: Our home remodeling project

Quilt shop sheathing

Posted on 2007-05-13 by Jim Vanderveen

Between Andy, Barb, and me, we got all the walls of the quilt shop sheathed, although I still need to drive some more nails into the middle of the OSB panels. We also need to sheath the gables. Once that’s … Continue reading →

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First remodel injury

Posted on 2007-05-12 by Jim Vanderveen

Well, it was bound to happen sooner or later. We’ve had our first noteworthy injury: Barb was walking along the joists and her foot slipped. She landed on the joist with the inside of her thigh. Not only did she … Continue reading →

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Inspection #2

Posted on 2007-05-11 by Jim Vanderveen

We get our second inspection today: joists and under-floor plumbing for the addition. While we were waiting for the inspector to do his thing with the addition, we continued work on Barb’s quilt shop. Speaking of the quilt shop… After … Continue reading →

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Trusses are here!

Posted on 2007-05-09 by Jim Vanderveen

[Western Wood Fabricators][wwf] delivered the trusses this morning. Check out the [truss photoset][] on Flickr. [wwf]: http://www.wwftruss.com/ [truss photoset]: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sonicchicken/sets/72157600197090377/

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What a weekend!

Posted on 2007-05-09 by Jim Vanderveen

I can’t believe it’s been five days since I wrote an entry here. Seems longer in some ways, shorter in others… Over the last few days, the framers have been installing the remaining joists. This morning, they finished with that … Continue reading →

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More joists, more rain

Posted on 2007-05-04 by Jim Vanderveen

The framing crew carried on without me yesterday afternoon. They finished blocking the bedrooms and got the most of the joist headers nailed in and marked. I took some more photos from yesterday afternoon and added them to the [floor … Continue reading →

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Floor joists

Posted on 2007-05-03 by Jim Vanderveen

The floor of our addition began in earnest today. Technically the sill plate could be considered the beginning of the floor, but the beams and joists started going in today, and joists are something you can actually walk upon! Barb … Continue reading →

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Rain and remodeling

Posted on 2007-05-02 by Jim Vanderveen

Well, it’s been raining on and off since yesterday evening. Our lumber package (or at least a sizable chunk of it) arrived yesterday morning, and the framer was on-site putting the [sill plate][] on the addition, but it’s too wet … Continue reading →

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Porch tear-off

Posted on 2007-04-30 by Jim Vanderveen

We tore off the back porch this weekend to make way for the sub-floor on our addition. Continue reading →

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A little Apache magic…

Posted on 2007-04-27 by Jim Vanderveen

I got tired of telling people the lengthy URL for the remodel project: http://sonicchicken.net/blog/wordpress/tags/remodel I’ve added the following shortcut to my config: http://sonicchicken.net/remodel That’s just the domain name followed by “remodel” — short and sweet!

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