Blogmas Day 3

 
Yesterday's talk about breezeblocks ended up invoking The Room quite a bit so I figured it was time for an update on that arena.

Reminder: this is the converted carport space that brie and I ended up demo-ing thanks to mold and other reasons. That was back in October and we left some layer of dust and light debris on the floor b/c a project has to end at some point.

Here is its current form.

fully framed out space with sloped ceiling. apprximately 400 square feet. Clean and dry, awaiting insulation and a new sub floor.
Brie went back in as part of another project we have in the works and did a proper clean up. 
fully framed out space with sloped ceiling. apprximately 400 square feet. Clean and dry, awaiting insulation and a new sub floor.
The space looks great and through 3 months of very wet weather it's been dry as a bone. No leaks, no nothin'. All of this is incredibly positive and keeps us on pace to finish The Room some time in the late Spring/early Summer. 

The main space is 16' x 21.5' (344ft²). The back space is set on a higher concrete slab (we believe these storage areas to be original to the carport) so wouldn't be ideal for inclusion in the main space. Current plans are to remove the cross-T wooden framing that defines the 3 alcoves and then frame in new walls that go right to the ceiling line. We could divide the space into two or three areas depending on how it feels to move in the space.
Possible new walls (blue lines) to replace current storage areas (red lines).

Possible new walls (blue lines) to replace current storage areas (red lines).

 After we drywall the back wall the back area is about 3.5' deep which makes the space roughly 56ft². By continuing the dividing wall to the roof line the space can be used as open walk-in storage for things like board game shelves or boxes of seasonal decorations.
***
We've spent a lot of thought on how not to recreate the mistakes that first ruined this space. Brie found a product called Dricore. This is a tongue a groove snap together sub-flooring that has a plastic barrier attached on the bottom side. This plastic barrier is shaped much like a soccer cleat, which creates air channels and allows the concrete to "breathe" under the subfloor. The concrete will be able to be water porous without any of the water entering the room.
Based solely on the sample photos, it appears that Tony Hawk will help us install it...
...and after installation I get a new wife and amazing calves.
-S.



Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

A Material Girl

Image
  Congratulations on surviving Easter and International Trans day of Visibility falling on the same day! I hope you all fought off what was apparently the 300+ attempt by Joe Biden to turn us all Woke Gay and Cancelled. Truly this will be a sane election year that certainly won't end with a bunch of angry white men, bloated to Michelin Man proportions through hangover sunburns and military vests, with thoughts of manifest destiny via Chik-fil-A and genocide, taking rifle shots at minorities, because their ineffectual, doddering would-be despot, existing solely to absorb conservative self-loathing and billable lawyers hours like some loosely shaped sentient cow pie hate sigil, managed to choke out world salad glossolalia during a non-concession speech.  But enough about the thoughts that come when sitting quietly, without a screen to distract me. We've made great home renovation strides! Allow me to draw your attention to this post back from December 2022. This was the entry wh
Read more

Never Forget there's no basement at the Alamo

Image
Erragal pulled out the mooring poles, forth went Ninurta and made the dikes overflow. The land shattered like a pot. All day long the South Wind blew, blowing fast, submerging the mountain in water, overwhelming the people like an attack. No one could see his fellow, they could not recognize each other in the torrent. The gods were frightened by the Flood, and retreated, ascending to the heaven of Anu. The gods were cowering like dogs, crouching by the outer wall. Ishtar shrieked like a woman in childbirth. Six days and seven nights came the wind and flood, the storm flattening the land. When the seventh day arrived, the storm was pounding, the flood was a war--struggling with itself like a woman writhing in labor. Tablet XI - The Story of the Flood The Epic of Gilgamesh (Kovacs Translation) ***  Did I just open a post from a smart alec renovation blog with a selection from the Epic of Gilgamesh? Absolutely. Also the website I sourced it from had a header written in Comic Sans.       
Read more

The One Where Brie and I Disagree About Decorative Panels

Image
Happy Pride to those who riot. Wanted to take an appropriately themed moment to focus on an organization doing good work in Texas. TENT (Transgender Education Network of Texas) The Texas Governor and the state Attorney General are actively targeting families with trans children, investigating parents that assist their children in receiving necessary medical healthcare, and are now attempting to force PFLAG (US's largest org that supports the LGBTQ+ community) to turn over information and documents about its support of families in Texas seeking gender-affirming medical care for their transgender youth.  Here's  the Lambda Legal article on that last item. TENT works to better the lives of the Texas trans community through education programs, community outreach, and collective action.  In their own words: Transgender Education Network of Texas (TENT) is the largest statewide, BIPOC trans-led, trans-focused policy, education, and advocacy organization in the state of Texas. We wor
Read more