8 months since the last update? Boy, it's been a while!
The winter was rather uneventful. I was extremely busy with school and "holding down the fort" to worry about anything else... :-)
Over Christmas break, we ripped the whole kitchen out of the house. It was good to finally get rid of the back-cramping 30" counters, and even the whole kitchen smelled better. Then again, we did remove a bunch of old flour from who-knows-when, the moldy and nearly rotten sink counter (WE WERE WASHING OUR DISHES IN THAT???) a few mouse nests and a big diesel fuel stain on the floor.
Some notes on the contruction of this house. The whole house was framed using rough-cut 2x4's. The framing is rather half-hazard, with 16-plus-or-minus-two-or-three-inch centers. What the framing lacks in structural strength, it makes up in nails. Lots of nails. And big ones too. For sheathing, since there was no plywood, 3/4" planks are nailed diagonally to the walls, and floors, and some of these planks are a good two feet across. On top of this, tongue and groove planks are nailed to all four sides. These are solid, clear larch, and these are nailed on - two nails per stud. (There must be a ton of nails in this thing!)
We heated the house (Or what was left of it) for two weeks from the wood we pulled off the kitchen walls, and carried away fifteen backhoe-bucket loads of garbage from that kitchen.
We set down 3/4" plywood on the floor, with construction glue and a few hundred screws (They use nails - We use screws!) and currently finished the wiring and plumbing to insulate and close the walls.
Mom has a rather giant kitchen planned- the walls on the east side of the kitchen are lined with counters, with two double-bottom sinks and a central vac. A 7-foot window provides a good view out the east side, and the dinner table is in the middle of the kitchen, in front of the upstairs furnace.
We had a rather heavy snowfall, getting around four feet of snow. It got to the point where we had to start up our tired D7 to help widen the road a bit from the encroaching snowbanks.
There is stirrings from Mom and Dad that we should start work fixing up our bulldozer-forever-in-restoration, our Cat D4D. Dad just bought some parts for it, and we are preparing to clean up (and out) the shop to start work. Finally finishing somthing for a change would be nice...
The winter was rather uneventful. I was extremely busy with school and "holding down the fort" to worry about anything else... :-)
Over Christmas break, we ripped the whole kitchen out of the house. It was good to finally get rid of the back-cramping 30" counters, and even the whole kitchen smelled better. Then again, we did remove a bunch of old flour from who-knows-when, the moldy and nearly rotten sink counter (WE WERE WASHING OUR DISHES IN THAT???) a few mouse nests and a big diesel fuel stain on the floor.
Some notes on the contruction of this house. The whole house was framed using rough-cut 2x4's. The framing is rather half-hazard, with 16-plus-or-minus-two-or-three-inch centers. What the framing lacks in structural strength, it makes up in nails. Lots of nails. And big ones too. For sheathing, since there was no plywood, 3/4" planks are nailed diagonally to the walls, and floors, and some of these planks are a good two feet across. On top of this, tongue and groove planks are nailed to all four sides. These are solid, clear larch, and these are nailed on - two nails per stud. (There must be a ton of nails in this thing!)
We heated the house (Or what was left of it) for two weeks from the wood we pulled off the kitchen walls, and carried away fifteen backhoe-bucket loads of garbage from that kitchen.
We set down 3/4" plywood on the floor, with construction glue and a few hundred screws (They use nails - We use screws!) and currently finished the wiring and plumbing to insulate and close the walls.
Mom has a rather giant kitchen planned- the walls on the east side of the kitchen are lined with counters, with two double-bottom sinks and a central vac. A 7-foot window provides a good view out the east side, and the dinner table is in the middle of the kitchen, in front of the upstairs furnace.
We had a rather heavy snowfall, getting around four feet of snow. It got to the point where we had to start up our tired D7 to help widen the road a bit from the encroaching snowbanks.
There is stirrings from Mom and Dad that we should start work fixing up our bulldozer-forever-in-restoration, our Cat D4D. Dad just bought some parts for it, and we are preparing to clean up (and out) the shop to start work. Finally finishing somthing for a change would be nice...
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