Showing posts with label attic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label attic. Show all posts

Monday, June 8, 2009

June 8, 2009: More bricks and air handling

On Monday, I made it out to the lot late in the evening and quite a few more bricks had been added as well as some additional work on the inside (air handling and some work on the steps).

View of the fron of the house. This was around 8:30 PM, but the brick masons were still working. On the 6th (Saturday), bricks had just started to go around the front and now you can see that they're most of the way up the front.


Closeup of the dining room window.

A row (course) of "soldier" bricks was placed across the top of the garage. Typically, this is for appearance, and that was also a motivation here, but it wasn't part of the original plan. Instead, when the iron angle was placed to support the bricks over the garage, the masons noticed that the bricks were not going to line up well over the garage, so we told them to do a soldier course to clean up the lines. For consistency, this is now going to be reflected over the two windows on this side. Also since the iron angle was inset a little bit, we couldn't bump out the bricks 5/8" like we did for the front windows.

View from the tree in the Northeast corner. The last parts to get bricked will be the center side-facing gable and / or the front entry (not visible).

View from the backyaard. The back and this side were were already done last time I came out, but the yard was too muddy to walk out and take this shot.

The stairs to the basement were roughed in except for the steps.

The steps between the basement and the main level as viewed from the basement.

We also checked up on all the settings for the interior doors with Danny. The door salesman had done the initial markings, but we still had to change about 1/3 of them. Above shows the markings on our pantry door which indicates a 2' 4" door, swinging out, with the knob on the right side (for easier access from the kitchen which is to the right when facing the pantry).

The attic air handler was constructed (had been in pieces before) and connected to the ducts / vents for the second floor.

One of the ducts running in the attic. I'm assuming the duct is slightly elevated to allow the spray-in insulation to avoid direct conduction with the ceiling (below).

The attic air handler venting into the master bedroom.

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

May 6: Stairs! And Raised Ceilings

Travel a little and a lot happens. It was a bit muddy, so all the shots were from inside, but there's a bit to see.

Here's a view of the great room from the dining room. Lots of houses have two story foyers (we don't), we went with the two story great room, which is (I think) starting to look really impressive closed in. There's still another window to add and some minor adjustments to make to the heights to the doors and windows.


Looking through the stairwell from the back from the kitchen (great room to the left) to the foyer and dining room (looking north).

View from the main floor bedroom (guest bedroom). The three doors you see from left to right are: 1) hallway / entrance, 2) direct entrance to the bathroom (not on original plan), 3) closet. In the back you can see the stairs and the great room.

Preethi going up the roughed in staircase. Much easier than the ladders we used the previous week.

Up on the second level in one of the north side bedroooms looking back at (left to right): 1) Master Bedroom, stairwell, great room (won't be open like you see now - should cut down on noise filtering up a little)


One of my favorite things about the framers is they clean up some every day when they're done.

The bedroom in the northeast corner. We also opened up the ceiling to the roof in this room (like in the master) and that's kinda done in this shot with about 16" shelving running over the doors (that's a closet door you're seeing).

Collars (the cross supports) to support the roof in the attic (and some framing too). The roof over the great room has less of a slope, so that the change in roof shape you're seeing on the left.


Since opening up the ceiling to the roof wasn't the original plan, we had to add strips of wood to the rafters so the drywall could sit properly with insulation behind it.


Same addition as the previous shot, but in the masterbedroom where the main roof meets the hipped roof for the bumpout.

View of the master bed room looking towards the master bathroom. When we opened up the master

Window added to the lower bathroom. In the original plan there was no window in that bathroom. Instead there was a false window created by closed shutters.