Paul on a bike, except when I'm working on the new house...

How I loathe plumbing fittings, it's either inside outside measures and for some reason they don't want to make it easy. I needed to find a way to go from the old cast iron to new pvc, cutting out the old piece of lead that's smooshed due to the floor not being solid or level. But I think I have what I need to connect the toilet, which is an important part of the bathroom. But tomorrow I should be able to cut the first piece of subfloor for the bathroom, and with some luck maybe the second one too... Here's some pics of half the floor insulated, glue and tape after I get the subfloor piece cut right. After I get the subfloor piece in I an put the wall back in, with this thing called a "header", it's been tough teaching the house what those things are.... Subfloor part one in place, and some pics of the tape an glue...  That's the tape.  Hope the glue dries by tonight  This is where the Red Hen is....  That's stone spray foa...

But I still got up and got some work done, the two final windows I need for the house had arrived, not that you could tell from HD's website. Then I noticed that a pile of yardwaste had grown on the street near my house, so I added to it, and cut the tree that had wire in the bottom of it flat on top and added three rocks, see I can still do art when I have so much else to do.  There was some guy out from the city cutting trees that I think might have been in the road or something, nice that someone else comes out to cut that. But here's the pics of the subfloor all installed an such...forgot to bring the camera to the library yesterday.  Looking toward the new tv side of the great room.  To the kitchenette side of the great room. And the look through the front door, there's subfloor in there, soon to be some floor, but first new doors and windows.

Still waiting, and hoping that ACE will come through sometime soon. So I worked on the skirt on the left side of the house, used hardibacker cement board, just cut it in half, this was the easy side since it's all about 18", the other sides I'll have to use the boards the 3' way instead of the 5' way. This is the pile of old plywood, or as I call it, tomorrow's garbage to get rid of.    I got as far as that back corner  The windows are really in need, but I have a bit to do before I start replacing them.  But I am thinking I can start buying them.  Got a $150 freebie for signing up for a chase card, thank you for the free window chase.  I stacked up the old bricks that were being used as pylons under the house along the side. And here's the view from the front.

Ordered batts of insulation from ACE a few weeks ago, still waiting. But while I wait I've got the room as ready as it can be with all the stuff I have to move around to do anything.  Insulation rests on the home wrap, yet still allows any moisture to hopefully leave. Tomorrow I'll work on the skirting outside, metal on the back, and cement board on the rest, try to seal it up as best as possible, so that the vent tube I'll install in the closet will remove as much as possible.

The sad news is that now I have to number them and take them back up so I can insulate. But it looks promising.... And that's where my tv thrown will be, one day I'll have tv...

That left wall is very crooked, so I've had to cut those first two to line them up, but it means I'll have to run the flooring the short way.  Getting that corner to line up, or getting the seams of the subfloor to line up with the beams. That's with the spacers in the bathroom doorway, keeping the 24" on center in line with the 18" on center of the bathroom. Tired from dragging home 9 sheets of OSB subflooring yesterday, they had 10% off, so had to get the deal, saved $22.

After finishing the pylons and installing a new pressure treated 2x6 across the left wall, I could get started installing the floor joists, then I ran out of screws with needing only three more to finish the last hurricane strap. FYI: lathe screws are really good for installing joist hangers, metal brackets, mending plates, etc.  They have a superior shear strength and if you need to you can take things apart. Still need to finish the last two 16 footers on the center of the house side, but I was pooped after working all day.  They are attached on the left wall side though. Pretty soon I'll be leveling up...  If you look to the right that's where I lag bolted the new with the old, for a continuous level floor.  THis is the corner where I had to redo the most of it.  There it is, all freshly mortared up. THis was the center of the left wall, the top two layers fell apart, but I fixed it.