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Framing had continued Relocated / ran some more electrical  Done with hanging drywall (on the outside)  Mostly done with the easy drywall hanging (I'm a bit further than this, but haven't taken many recent pictures)  Spent way too much time adding nailers to this tiny little cubbyhole  For one, I didn't like the idea of just closing off this space. It also solved the issue of me wanting to put an in-wall heater in to try and keep the temperatures in there not ultra cold during the winter months. I liked the in-wall heater idea, but I saved ~$120 having to buy one as I have a small portable space heater I can pop in there. I don't have any pictures but it's a drywalled cubbyhole now. Next steps are going to be to wire the two outlets I put on the outside wall in the first wall section, the outlet I have boxed in the cubbyhole, and then figure out what I'm going to tie it into on the other side of the wall. It will only be servicing three outlets, with the hungriest of those being a small space heater, so I'm not concerned about tapping into another circuit if one is nearby. After that (again with no pictures this isn't helpful), but I'm planning on adding some framing members (likely ripped-down 2x4s since that's what I have on hand) to the right side of the basement stairwell block. This will allow me to more securely add the handrail back, and I'll be able to drywall over that side of the concrete block to make it look way nicer. The tricky parts are where I'm going to extend the framing to the top of the steps and tying it into the wall, which will then determine where I'm framing the step into the upsidedown door, etc. Basically, lot's of staring at the problem until a solution presents itself. I really want to get the garage back to "park a car inside" shape. Lot's to do between now and then, but it's slowly coming along.
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Stage 1 of drywall is done in the stairwell. I still need to figure out framing for the hand rail/covering the block on the right side. If anyone was wondering, I swapped between vertical and horizontal hanging of the drywall only because it was easier to span a big chunk of that wall. One of the joist cavities is 17"OC randomly. I built a (temporary?) step out of scrap I had laying around. It's not a code-friendly step (close to 10" instead of the normal ~7"), but there isn't much I can do about the height of the rest of the house and how much room we have to play with coming into the stairwell. The step is removeable if I ever need to get real big stuff in/out of the basement. You can see I added some nailers for drywall to hide the block wall and sill on the right side. I think I'm going to revisit this detail, I don't like now it's done currently. It's shameful because something so dumb has really had me dragging my feet and completely stopped progress on this.   I bought a lot of wire shelving stuff. I hate how much this stuff costs, but I'm a sucker for the adjustability/modularity.  Organizational porn! Garage still a mess, but this does help.  I will likely buy more brackets and bracket supports because the 12" linen wire shelf stuff that I bought is not particularly rigid. Anything relatively heavy that isn't on one of the brackets bows pretty badly. It's passable, but might as well make it as good as it can be. We also got 27" of snow, the most in 24 hour period for our area in history, so that was kind of exciting.   I'm on my last two weeks of work at the job I've been at for almost 19 years. It's pretty weird knowing I'll be doing something completely different in just a few weeks. That's about it from here for now. I hope everyone is happy and healthy.
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Dec 21, 2020 16:58
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You ever consider (bit late now I suppose...) putting plywood under the drywall? Been doing that when constructing interior walls in my last two houses and it's nice as hell to have since it makes the wall more solid feeling and you can just screw/nail poo poo in without worrying about hitting studs or using those fiddly anchors. Basically the interior wall is a sandwich of drywall, 13mm plywood, studs+insulation, 13mm plywood, drywall.
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Dec 21, 2020 20:42
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Clayton Bigsby posted:You ever consider (bit late now I suppose...) putting plywood under the drywall? Been doing that when constructing interior walls in my last two houses and it's nice as hell to have since it makes the wall more solid feeling and you can just screw/nail poo poo in without worrying about hitting studs or using those fiddly anchors. Basically the interior wall is a sandwich of drywall, 13mm plywood, studs+insulation, 13mm plywood, drywall. I've heard of people doing that in shops (well, except for the drywall on top of the plywood). I'd be curious what kind of downsides there would be that I'm not thinking about other than additional cost and wall thickness.
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Dec 22, 2020 13:58
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dreesemonkey posted:I've heard of people doing that in shops (well, except for the drywall on top of the plywood). I'd be curious what kind of downsides there would be that I'm not thinking about other than additional cost and wall thickness. It's pretty common among my renovating friends to do this. You can buy door frames here (Sweden) sized to match this particular configuration (works fine with 12mm OSB as well), and there are electrical boxes (for outlets and switches) with a 26mm deep flange available as well. Not sure what the downside would be other than a little more effort, cost, and size.
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Dec 22, 2020 18:44
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Clayton Bigsby posted:It's pretty common among my renovating friends to do this. You can buy door frames here (Sweden) sized to match this particular configuration (works fine with 12mm OSB as well), and there are electrical boxes (for outlets and switches) with a 26mm deep flange available as well. Well it sure would make hanging drywall way easier and less wasteful not having to land on a stud all the time. Also would eliminate a lot of preparing framing/nailers for drywall. I like the idea thinking about it more. I'm sure it's not done here because of cost and time. I'm wondering if you could do a sound isolation adhesive between the plywood and drywall. Not sure if it would work because you're still attaching the drywall to the plywood.
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Dec 22, 2020 20:31
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Our walls have plywood where we planned to mount heavy things like ac units, kitchen cabinets and shelves. But 90% of wall surface is drywall. The reason for drywall is probably both cost and fire prevention.
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Dec 23, 2020 16:02
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This was 6AM Christmas morning. The snow I previously mentioned got assaulted by ~2" or rain and this was the result. It could have been much worse, and there was almost nothing ruined. The one upside is that I got some valuable data - finally. I have two waterleak sensors in the basement, and they did work and send me an alert, but I was asleep. Looking through the data, the sensor by the sump pump pit (that had no sump pump in it) went off a full hour before the other water sensor did, which is located on the other side of the basement. So this tells me that the water is coming up from the sump pump pit. Which is somewhat strange, because looking at the sump pump pit it's not a typical pit. The bottom is concrete as well and it's not obvious as how the water is coming in (no drainage tile leading into the pit). The pit is also much smaller and shallower than a typical pit. The final weird thing is that there is a 1/2" CPVC line leading out of it, presumably for drainage? But I have no idea where it goes. I had it capped off temporarily anyway.  The stupid thing is that I bought a sump pump a long while ago and was too lazy to install it. Welp, I guess it's about time I did that. Here's the area in question:  Drilled a hole in our sill to have the discharge exit at a convenient spot. I obviously extended this out away from the foundation, I thought I had a picture but I guess I don't.  I would recommend buying a laser level if you don't already have one. Mine was cheap (~$40) and I've found many different uses for it. It made figuring out where the pieces of pipe were going to join up super easy.  The finished plumbing  The first test was successful, but since my pit is not deep, the weep hole (air relief hole) that I drilled just pisses all over the floor.  I found some plumbing fittings and enlarged the weep hole so that I could thread a couple fittings in it. It's not as off as it looks in the picture, the straight brass piece is not pointing straight down. You can also see where I capped the 1/2" cpvc. It would be cool to use this for discharge but I have no clue where it goes and that would be a big stepdown going from 2"-.5".  I've since added some plumbers putty around the pipe dope as it was still spraying a little water. I haven't tried it since but I think the plumbers putty should have done the trick. Over the weekend I added framing to the block wall in the stairwell so I could put the handrail back in the stairwell. This was kind of fiddly but it's done.  I still need to hang drywall, install the exterior door on the garage side, etc. But I'm happy to make some progress on things I didn't completely know how they were going to go.
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Jan 25, 2021 15:01
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All lookin' good--well except the flood, but super nice not to have destroyed anything! Your drywall with no tape is triggering me.  If you hate taping and want to make it super easy--https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B000ULBC6K That Homax banjo makes it about as easy as it gets. Add a little extra water to your mud to get a little milkshaky in consistency and have perfect seams and corners with very little fuss.e: Is this a brand new house? Noticing the efflorescence in the back corner. Makes me worry about your perimeter drains/wonder how water is getting up next to the foundation of your house. Might just be that corner needs a better grade away from the house? HycoCam fucked around with this message at 19:50 on Jan 25, 2021 |
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Jan 25, 2021 19:45
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HycoCam posted:All lookin' good--well except the flood, but super nice not to have destroyed anything! The drywall isn't finished because it's too cold here. I read that you can't really do much if the temperature is consistently below 50-60 degrees (F) so I'm stuck until late spring at the earliest. I supposed if I finally enclose the stairwell completely (i.e. install the door and finish the wiring so I can run a space heater in there) I could potentially start working on it sooner, but it really doesn't seem that fun to me, especially working on a ladder for a lot of it. No the house definitely isn't new. You have an interesting point about the discoloration in the corner. Another part of the story I left out is that corner you're looking at is where the downspout is on the back of the house. Sure enough, my kids were playing around the house in the back corner and the downspout extension was disconnected, so I have a feeling that played a major role. I know it was them because I had done a once over of the drainage the week before and everything was fine. I need to revisit the downspout setup and either self-tapper screw it on so it can't just pop off, or something along those lines. The grading at the house isn't terrible, I think it's something to do with our soil here. When the ground is extremely saturated and then it rains very hard, the ground water just has nowhere to go. I know nothing about soil composition or anything like that but logically that's what seems to be happening to me. Every time we've gotten water in the basement it's been a very wet spell and then we get a lot of rain all at once (the one time it was really bad we had 4-6" of rain in 2 hours) But alas, I'm just one step closer to having this be a non-issue, I hope.
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Jan 25, 2021 20:30
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dreesemonkey posted:This was 6AM Christmas morning. The snow I previously mentioned got assaulted by ~2" or rain and this was the result. At first I thought you epoxied your concrete floor. Have you considered doing that? It looks pretty good that way 
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Jan 26, 2021 02:24
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devicenull posted:At first I thought you epoxied your concrete floor. Have you considered doing that? It looks pretty good that way Haha no it would trigger me everytime I walked downstairs thinking it's flooded again. Long term I think we'd be most likely doing LVP. Over the weekend I installed the door in the basement stairwell wall. This is an exterior steel door and it's installed "backwards" because I didn't want the door opening in to the stairwell.  I have no qualms telling you I'm garbage at plumbing walls and installing doors. I'm going to have some work getting trim on there in the future. On the bright side, the door operates fine. I have a little space heater in the stairwell running and it actually does a good job keeping it warm so for we're using the interior door as access now and overall I'm pretty pleased with the functionality. This morning we opened the interior door up and left it open as well as the doorway at the bottom of the steps, my cat is freaking out having a new place to explore. He's only been down here in the basement a few times. 
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Feb 3, 2021 15:34
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Aw yeah, the universal rubbermaid bin full of scraps. Door looks good.
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I'm in the midst of some attempts organization. Nothing earth shattering, but it's good to make some sort of progress on something. As with most organizing, I'm just shuffling things around that will require me to do more shuffling around in the future. Two weekends ago we started with combining my kid's lego sets into one giant bin for each kid. As a boring adult I always wanted them to keep the sets together so they could appreciate them down the line but for the most part that didn't happen. 90% of the sets were broken in some form or other and pieces intermixed with other sets. Oh well, it was a good try.  The purge continued with my wife went through their play room and picked out a bunch of crap to get rid of. No pictures, but the playroom is much less cluttered. I followed up with some larger items hanging around that needed taking to the dump. Feels good to have reclaimed that space. I bought one of these fancy as hell document scanners and spent some time scanning a bunch of stuff we had laying around. I've wanted one of these for a long time but could never justify it. Since I'm not self-employed I'm going to justify it as a business expense. The chances of us needing most of this stuff again is slim, but this thing makes it really quick and easy to scan and tag documents. Then it all goes up onto google drive and then it will just be part of a process I do of processing new stuff. A+++ would buy again.  Yesterday I installed these drawer slides into a base cabinet that was a bit of a mess. Around the holidays my wife was doing a lot of baking so I thought it would be nice for her to have a dedicated space for baking supplies that she uses most often, it would consolidate most of it to one area and make better use of that cabinet.  
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Feb 15, 2021 16:16
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dreesemonkey posted:I bought one of these fancy as hell document scanners and spent some time scanning a bunch of stuff we had laying around. I've wanted one of these for a long time but could never justify it. Since I'm not self-employed I'm going to justify it as a business expense. The chances of us needing most of this stuff again is slim, but this thing makes it really quick and easy to scan and tag documents. Then it all goes up onto google drive and then it will just be part of a process I do of processing new stuff. A+++ would buy again. What software did you end up using? We bought one of these for pictures, and I've been meaning to start using it for documents, but there's a million software choices so I kinda gave up.
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devicenull posted:What software did you end up using? We bought one of these for pictures, and I've been meaning to start using it for documents, but there's a million software choices so I kinda gave up. I've been using the software that came with it "ScanSnap Home". So far my process has been pretty much just scan the stuff in and add tags, I haven't gone too crazy with renaming the files as the tags should help me find things quickly. I'm not doing anything particularly sophisticated for my needs. As a backup, I have the folder they're saved to to my google drive so I'll always at least have a "manual" backup of the raw files if needed.
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