The first floor turns out to be a bit of a Lincoln Log situation, with some of the concrete and the framing interlocking. Because part of the garage slab hangs over the basement, the basement framing and first story floor structure had to be completed before they could pour the garage slab. And along withRead more about First floor framing & concrete interlock[…]
Post as in beam, not post as in blog. 🙂 Sometimes the reality of the house isn’t clear from flat 2D floor plans and engineering drawings. As the house gets built, the true nature of things reveal themselves, sometimes requiring changes to either improve aesthetics or something that doesn’t function well in practice. One exampleRead more about An unwanted post[…]
We’ve started planning the HVAC, which is a real pain. Consider the structure of the second floor: The first floor looks very similar. If you think about how you might snake ducting from one area of the house to another though those joists, keeping in mind that you can’t actually go through most of them,Read more about HVAC considerations[…]
It’s been a couple of weeks since the last update so I thought I’d throw out a teaser on the progress with the first floor framing. The walls are almost all up and most of the 2nd floor joists are in place. Here is what it looks like from the side: And from the top:Read more about First floor framing update[…]