Russ's House Upstairs (June, 2006 - July, 2007)

Most recent photos listed first:

• Done! Kitchenette
• Done! Bath south
• Done! Bath north
• Done! Bedroom
• Bedroom, looking toward chimney and closet
• Bedroom, at night, looking toward southwest and showing access panel door
• Bedroom, morning, looking toward northwest
• Ernie and Russ after a day's work
• Bedroom ceiling insulation installed
• Installing beadboard on the bedroom ceiling (Russ's angle-finder tool on the table)
• New short beam installed near the top of the stairs
• Marvin "Tilt Pac" Double-Hung sash replacement windows
• New window sashes being installed
• Bedroom west and north walls paneled with beadboard
• Preparing the upstairs bedroom west wall
• Door refinished; lights installed
• Beadboard painted; installing trim
• Beadboard done in bathroom
• Ernie makes sawdust fly
• Russ talks about tile
• Our project mascot - "Bob" - and night watchman
• Insulating the ceiling with 1.5-inch-thick rigid foam panels
• Wall around shower insulated
• ... extended through the roof.
• Another two plumbing vents connected and ...
• Starting to install plywood beadboard
• So, just one plumbing vent pipe run through the roof for both fixtures
• A new PVC pipe run from another fixture to connect with the above pipe
• One plumbing vent pipe left capped in the attic (bath fan in the background)
• Bath fan vented to the outside in a gable under the eaves
• Cement backerboard done
• First two pieces of backerboard hung
• Cutting WonderBoard cement tile backerboard
• Plumber installed the shower valve and pipes
• The new tub
• Tar paper beneath the concrete bed that we will lay below the tub
• Ernie reading the instructions for the Kohler tub drain
• Two layers of new plywood for the floor beneath the tub - Original Douglas fir floor boards salvaged to use elsewhere.
• We modified the drain for a tub/shower instead
• Bath was at first roughed-in for a shower drain
• New laminated (5 layers of 3/4-inch) plywood beam
• New double 2x12 beam and 4x4 post -- These beams allowed the removal of two load-bearing walls.
• Some of upstairs roughed-in
• Russ's house in Edison