The title says it all. Even though I am posting today about building the frame for the east wall of Jacobhouse’s bathroom, the Jacobhouse project took on a physical form July 19, 2018. The information about all the prior going-ons will be added in the near future in a ‘logbook’ section, but because the day is becoming late, and because I’m still figuring out the ropes of this new endeavor, I will start off this day with the most recent entry. This taken directly from the logbook, so I apologize for its raw form. I will be improving upon it as we move forward:
1/3/2019:
Today I went down in the morning and started out by getting a 8′ 2×4 and lifting it up to see how close it came to Jacob-house ceiling. It came pretty close, so I took a little piece of 2×4 blocking I had left over and found that it was almost an exact 3.5 inches from the top of the 96 incher to the ceiling. This also meant that it would work for putting a 2×4 flat on the floor, putting the 96 incher on top of that, and then another flat 2×4 on top of the 96 incher. In other words, it was the ideal height for framing a wall, so that is what I did.
I started out by forming the initial frame of the east wall of my bathroom. I cut two 2x4s to 51 and 3/16″ long (distance from back wall to front of bathroom). This was followed by my getting 2 of the 8′ 2×4’s and attaching them to both 51″ 2x4s on either end, making a large rectangle. I had a little difficulty with one of the long 2x4s being warped, so I attached a little piece of blocking at the corner to give it some more attachment surface to the bottom 51-incher. Then, after attaching the 51-incher at a slant, I was able to push it down till it was even with the other normal and straight 96-incher. This effectively locked the warped one into place.
After that, me and padre tested to see if the frame would fit, we brought it in from the deck, and flipped it up. It was within 1/4″ of the ceiling, so we figured we would end up shimming the bottom and attaching it to the bathroom’s base with some extra blocking once all the other boards were in place. As for those other boards, we determined that the plywood would have to extend out past the edge of the present frame by ~ 3.5 inches to meet with the plywood coming from the other frame. So, instead of 16″ between the center of the corner stud and the first stud, I had to reduce it to 12.5″. Then from the 12.5″, I went 16″ and another 16″ (adding up to 48″ from 3.5″ off the side). We did this so the 4×8′ plywood sheets could be fitted on with ease.