Monday, December 11, 2006

Basement … How Do I Love Thee?

Basement progress.

Here we have the most troublesome framing ever. Well, it’s not really that bad, but I am here to tell you that it took me three tries to get that wood up there around the duct work. I pretty much suck at framing it seems. Please see photo number four below.

One more view from the other side.

This is the closet that Reha and I built. It’s going to be a bit of a problem, because eventually, when we put doors on the thing, we’ll have to trim them by about five inches. Doors come standard at 80 inches high. There’s only about 75 inches of raw opening there. Shall we take wagers on how many doors I have to buy and trim before I get it right?

Now this one shows that you don’t really want me to come over and do any framing. In the photo I have dropped a red line along the right side of the closet. Notice the gap at the bottom. Yeah, it’s out of plumb by a bit. Maybe half an inch. *sigh* This has since been fixed.

Behind this innocent box (which I built, note how it’s not “true” either) is more duct work and “black” pipe for the gas feed to the furnace. I still have nightmares about driving a nail through this flimsy, poorly constructed box into the black pipe, which conveniently sparks, explodes and then launches me 300 feet into the air (through the living room one floor above, mind you).

The drywall arrives! Blessed walls!

This is the network setup for the house, but that’s not really important. What’s important is the nail that has been circled in red. That’s one of those that I drove into the concrete with my new tool. Please invite me over to assist you with setting up footers. I l-o-v-e using it. But it’d probably be best if I went home after and you kept me away from the rest of your project.

Painting begins soon.

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