Helping Hands

Been doing a bit of demo to a clients building getting it ready to open in summer. Were taking out the drop ceiling, some special fella went ahead and blew 2 feet of that insulation up about the tiles. Man it's been a mess for a couple days, but we got it cleaned up. Tomorrow we continue taking down the grid. More to come.
The floor has a bad dip so we're going to build it up, and get it right directly.

Well, this is a new one!
There's a catch basin in the floor there where the laundry and the kitchen sink were just dumping, now if that weren't bad enough, some genius built that lovely together wall, to make an elevated shower on the other side, and that's what the 2 inch pipe came from. Haha.
The absolute genius behind this was inspired considering it all worked, and despite the nice flex that cobbled wall has in the center there, you can't begin to believe there were actual cabinets dangling from it full of dishes hahaha.

The first picture is from July, we built this 12x12 structure under the deck where we tripled the joist in preparation for stone fireplace on the 2 stories of the house above.
It features 36"x36"x30" deep footings. All of the joists and bands are 2x12 pressure treated sitting on 8x8 pressure treated.
The next picture on the deck above is half the size to accommodate an outside fireplace with stones on the second story deck. It also features tripled joists 9n the deck above, and tripled 2x12 bands and joists. The 8x8s are positioned above the structure below.
I closed in the structure on the deck to allow it to be used for dry storage.
Next ill build the interior fireplace on the first floor. It'll be tripled 2x6 framework to support the fireplace above it later on.

Quite the process to put 2 80" French doors under there with 76" openings. I dismantled the doors and frames from factory, they are equipped with a metal teastrical which allows the doors to shut firmly together and lock a side into jam. I had to modify every piece except the top and bottom of the case. They work perfectly, and look great.

A progression of the front wall of the storage were doing under the deck here. It's coming right along, I still have the ends to do doors on, but we're undecided if I'm to build them or buy and customize a French door for each end. Tomorrow I have 2 pallets of cement coming that well be putting in behind the back wall to stop any chance of water coming in. It's been a big deal with alot of separate challenges to make this a storage area, but it'll save them money, and improve my resume lol.

Long day today. 10 hrs! I had to move the hose bib and wall up the ends of this alley. I have a bit more to do on the front, and closing up the top on back, but the doors work great and it's super strong. Fun time playing with sticks.

After quite a bit of effort, I finally got it painted. It needs about another 4 hours and it'll look nice. I sprayed 20 gallons on today. Not bad solo style!

This has been an ongoing attraction for a while. I finally finished today!!!
This support system is to strengthen the floor above for a massive rock fire place that I will begin construction of. As soon as I finish the basement kitchen. Stay tuned. I'm very proud of the job I did here, it was a lot of heavy hard work from digging the footings, doubling up all the existing joists, then constructing the structure below everything. It's made me very tired but equally stronger.

I've been getting fairly good at plumbing, I ran all of this myself. I'll be adding a partician wall in front of plumbing at a later date, but for what they needed, it's spot on for now. The sink was purchased used so I went ahead and took out the basket drains and re sealed them and got everything patched up. It runs it drains but it doesn't leak. All in all went well. 1 day
I also straightened out the old plumbing that was there already chopped into 10 times so I took it all out and re ran everything for inlet

Well this kitchen is finally finished up. We reconstructed the kitchen entry and ceiling put in new drywall, new engineered hardwood flooring, painted fixed up the chimney. Not to mention the additions and all but that was in earlier posts. More to come on this place this fall and winter.

Some work from this week so far

Working on some tile.in a condo I'm refurbishing. Coming along as I get things I put them in. I was waiting for the other shower valve to come in so I can finish the smaller one.