Saturday, June 15, 2013
work on the front porch continues
Over the past few days I've been chipping away at the front porch, I expanded it a bit from the original and we're enclosing the right half where i'm working now to make a larger dining area. I finished the new foundation wall for the enclosed half of the porch/dining area, its half concrete block and half wood framed. With support posts in place I've started removing the old exterior wall and a row of blocks from the old foundation so I can tie in to the floor joists. I installed enough floor joists to get a 4x8 sheet of subfloor down so that I could start framing some walls for support before i go any further down the line of taking down the old exterior wall and foundation.
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This is awesome. I wish I had the ability to do this. Want to come do a house for me? haha.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comment, ya not everyone is made to be able to do everything, don't ask me to change the oil in a car cause i'm sure i'd screw it up somehow! Completely clueless when it comes to vehicles or motors or anything of the sort, but houses I just get, lots of labor and a little knowhow seems to get it done!
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ReplyDeleteI stumbled over your blog by coincidence today, and I am just stunned. Wow, what an amazing property, and what an amazing job you have done! I would love to see more posts from you, this house looks like it's going to be paradise on earth.
ReplyDeleteHi, thanks for writing, ya I love this property, its going to be a great place to live one day. Parents and friends like to be kept updated so I should be continuing with this site through the entire build, glad you've enjoyed it so far, i'm not a big writer or anything this was mainly just a place for me to put pictures up so my family in florida could keep tabs on the process, glad its gotten out to some other folks as well though, thanks again
DeleteHi! Great work. Please continue to blog. I am thinking of buying a fixer upper also and my husband and I and a couple of friends are going to fix it. They are going really cheap now! Thank you for sharing!
ReplyDeleteThanks very much, good luck in finding a great fixer-upper, its the way to go i say! If you have more time than money it makes perfect sense. Plus you get to know your house much better by working on it yourself, thats a big plus in my book. Let me know if you share your adventure anywhere.
DeleteYour insistence of keeping as much of the 1803 structure reminds me of me, as most people would of just razed the house, and started over. 2 questions: 1: You didn't have any problems with insect critters being in the wood? No termites, wood boring insects, etc? 2: Where in the world is the fireplace/chimney/flue? I haven't seen it in any pics, and an 1803 structure would have required at least one. Your doing a fantastic job. Really awesome.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comment. No bad evidence of bug damage, never came across any ants pretty much anywhere around the property, a few bee nests and some spiders but that was about it. Main cause of damage was just water. The foundation was half concrete block and wood beams on grade, the wood beams were 90% rotted, a lucky few rocks kept it up just enough not to start rotting the wall studs on one wall, with the exception of the back wall which was completely shot it every which way due to the small back shed type roof that had failed in numerous spots. One other side wall which was sitting on concrete blocks had a 30% rotted sill which was cut out and replaced and reinforced along the entire run with an 1x6 pressure treated board before rebuilding the foundation. Ya unfortunately no fireplce, a hole on each side of the house says woods stoves were in use. I believe this was an old structure which was moved to its current location, so it may have had a fireplace at its old location.
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