The weekend flew by like a... well, it flew by really fast. We took on two big house projects. Sue's project will be covered in tomorrow's post.
This is going to be a hard one, since it's difficult to illustrate what I did, but stick with me. As I had hoped, I put a bunch of time into the expansion of the basement this weekend. Here's how we left the project after the Bench and Wall Demolition a few weeks ago.
From this point, I still needed to cut away about a foot of wall on the right (where the broom is). The radon reduction system (that 3" white PVC pipe coming out of the concrete foundation) is in the middle of everything - big problem - so it needed to be rerouted somehow, and I needed to create a frame for the new nook walls.
So here's a short series from the right side of where the new nook will be. I had to show it from this view, so you get an idea of how the radon PVC was (and will be) altered.
It's sort of hard to tell, but can you see how the radon system has two big pipes coming out of the foundation - one pipe rises from the lower lefthand part of the picture, then connects with the troublesome pipe coming out of the middle of the new nook, then carries all the bad radon-infested air to the far wall and out of the house (left to right across the back and top part of the picture above)?
(The pipe with the black at the bottom is actually a support pipe, making sure the beam running across the middle of the ground floor doesn't collapse.)
So I measured things out and put tape on the floor where the walls will go. Then I turned off the radon system and started cutting through the PVC. Eek. I had to buy five right angles, a "T" connection and 10 feet of extra PVC for the project, plus PVC pre-glue cleaner and PVC glue.
To reroute them, the pipe in the foreground now turns to the right once it gets past the support pipe, in order to go down the side and around the back of of the new room. Big success there.
Look what happens to that annoying pipe that was in the middle of everything. Chopped in half and bent. Once the project is complete, it will rise straight up 31", then turn to be parallel to the ground and go to the back of the new nook (left to right then up where it will meet the T connection and the other pipe behind the yet-to-be-completed wall).
The part that rises 31" will be hidden in the leg of a custom desk I'll be building. The part parallel to the ground will be hidden under the front edge of the desk's workspace.
The framing happened next.
Here's how it looks from the front angle. That annoying pipe will be coming up from that hole in the foundation.
BEFORE
AFTER
You can see the bottom of the T connection facing downward protruding from the pipe running right to left across the top of the picture and behind the frame.
The book I had told me to build all the framing on the ground, then stand up the frame and nail it into place. I didn't do that, because when I measured, the frame would not be an exact rectangle - the foundation and ceiling are not parallel.
Instead I just affixed the vertical posts of the frame directly to the rafters, like whoever built the wall in the basement in the first place.
Have good weeks!
PS
We won our soccer game. It was a scorcher this weekend.
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