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Sandra March 26, 2018

Calderwood Cottage – Round 2 (part 1)

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Hey Guys! I finally had time to edit photos and write a few posts.  Julie and I just spent another 3 1/2 weeks working on Calderwood Cottage! We were super enthusiastic to get started and had everything planned out and a strict schedule to maintain. (Because we want to finish this house in Julie’s Round 3 trip.)  I filmed the following video on day 1.

Day 2, we got to work! We filled our trusty trailer with supplies and started our daily trek to CC.Hauling lumber to Calderwood Cottage

Picking up where we left off

It is exactly as we left it 3 months ago. We needed to replace the subfloor in the old hallway and bathroom area.

Calderwood Cottage - demo days are not over! We had to work in sections. The area below is dug out about 7′ deep so we had to balance on the floor joists as we worked our way back. Pulling up the diagonal strips that made up these old subfloors is no easy task. They are nailed down with 5″ long, giant nails, spaced 2″ apart.

Pulling 5″ long nails takes muscle. It was really hard!

My glasses kept sweating up because the weather was in the high 70’s – low 80’s (for a few days).

On the second day of pulling nails, I started just cutting them off. Worked great!  Apparently, according to many people on Instagram, I need an angle grinder for this job. I used a reciprocal saw which worked awesome! But maybe an angle grinder would be smaller and make it easier. I’ll try it some day if I get an angle grinder. (probably won’t)

Eventually we had to remove the old walls. One of them was load bearing so we build a temporary wall to take the weight. Then we laid new subfloor.

I cut down the subfloor and enjoyed the beautiful, sunny, warm 73 degree weather.

Framing

With new subfloor installed, we built a new wall where the old one had been. Minus the door to the master bedroom.  We reconfigured where the bedroom entrances are located…and some other things.

Almost everything we did in the last 3 1/2 weeks was like choreographing a dance between and around the sub contracted work we needed done. We had to have the right walls and subfloors in place for the plumber to rough in work where it was needed. But we had to leave enough of the subfloors off so the plumber (and others) could get things where they needed them to be without crawling around in our tiny crawl space.

Plumbing

The plumbers came and went. They said it would take 2 days and in 2 days they got their work done. Boom.

We did a little more framing on the other side of the house while they were working.

Once the plumbers were done, Julie and I put down ONE piece of subfloor where we needed to build the master bedroom wall. The rest we left open for the electrician and HVAC guys.

Then we built that wall. Notice that the entrance to the master bedroom is located on the far side of the below picture. We put the doorway there because that was our optimal plan.

We also framed out the wall that separates the new loft area into two sections. The back section is the loft. The front is…going to be super cool!

The HVAC engineer wanted to put a big ugly return in the center of our super cool upper lofty section. Julie and I both did not hesitate to give a HARD NO to that idea. We suggested something else –that he accepted as a perfectly good option.

That option meant we needed to move the door to the bedroom and build a closet for the ductwork where we had originally put the door. (We will decide later how to make the return grill not look stupid where we suggested it go.)

Also, we needed to dig a big trench for the ductwork to get to it’s new location.

We asked how deep.

He said 18″. Julie swears he said 18″. I wasn’t paying attention.

We had one day to dig our trench so we got busy digging…

Read part 2, soon.  🙂

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  1. Mariele says:
    March 26, 2018 at 8:39 am

    I missed this! Love this series. 🙂 Such hard workers!!

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    • Sandra says:
      March 26, 2018 at 10:20 pm

      Thanks so much for following along. We need the encouragement!

  2. Sarah says:
    March 26, 2018 at 11:29 am

    Wow, so much work! Looks pretty hard, dirty work, but hopefully your progress feels great. Can’t wait to see more…

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    • Sandra says:
      March 26, 2018 at 10:22 pm

      We are making progress. Some times it’s not visible progress so it feels like we’re not making progress. But we have to remind ourselves that there is no way possible that we could work that hard all day, every day and not make progress. So we much be making progress. LOL

  3. Lu says:
    March 26, 2018 at 1:21 pm

    I just don’t know how you do it. All your work is so impressive. I bought the Kreg Master Jig kit and it is still in the box six months later. I see all the beautiful work you do and wonder if I will ever learn to miter to ends together. I guess I wont know until I try. I don’t miss one blog entry! You guys are AMAZING!!!!!

    Reply
    • Sandra says:
      March 26, 2018 at 10:23 pm

      LU, thank you so much for reading every single post! AND FOR COMMENTING! That means so much to us. The encouragement helps keep us going!

  4. marvin shelley - Master Sawdust Maker says:
    March 26, 2018 at 1:54 pm

    Hey girls – You have a mammoth project. One note – Using a bi-metal blade on the recip saw will definitely be better than trying to pull large nails and better than a grinder. I rarely use nails. Almost everything requiring fasteners, I use #2 square drive screws. I use all sizes # 6x 5/8″ up to #8x 4″. In Canada, square drive is about all they use. Here, in Arkansas other than one store, only Phillips drive is available. I get mine from Rockler. The local store only has about 3-lengths.

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  5. Rita Hays says:
    March 26, 2018 at 6:26 pm

    I love watching your progress!

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  6. Carla from Kansas says:
    March 26, 2018 at 7:14 pm

    Love this series!

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  7. Amber Bailey says:
    March 28, 2018 at 11:20 am

    You’re doing such a great job! I can’t wait to see the end result!

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