Well havent been hangin out here much lately. Gotta move in about 3 weeks and I've been trying to get as much done as I can on the new house before we move into our temporary cardboard box
wife helping with the subfloor


First floor subfloor all done



Tearin apart the second floor



Had to put a beam up so I could temporarily take down some walls

Second floor out


gettin the joists back up




Should have the second floor subfloor all in this weekend

It wouldn't have been cheaper to just build a new house?

How you liking that Advantech?

wouldn't have been able to by a piece of land for what i got the whole house for

the advantech is workin out well. about $1 more than plywood and its waterproof with a 50 year warrenty. I dont have to worry about the beer my buddy spilled when he misstepped and almost fell to the first floor

The house looks alot like some of the wrecks you've brought back to life and I'm sure the home reno will turn out just as nice.

Looks awesome. I'm in the process of buying my first house. Good Luck!

wow, you have a butt load of work to do still in 3 weeks. You need to buy more beer and invite more friends over to get that puppy built. Do like they do on Overhaulin and get 20 guys to work non stop on it and finish it in a week. Yeah, right. LOL

I just finished building my new house 11 months ago after we lost it in the southern california wild fires.

Good luck.

Gees Ding I figured you would have been further along than that by now

Floor is really looking great though

its alot of work and always takes 3 times as long as you think it will. i used to buy houses, remodel and sell them. got tired of that after awhile so i fianlly built my house 3 years ago. put the shop up 2 years ago and now hopefully i'm done. i still find myself doing projects inside so i guess your never actually ever completely done. you definately got more than 3 weeks worth of work left there though.

Doright wrote:
Gees Ding I figured you would have been further along than that by now

Floor is really looking great though

Been working on it pretty much by myself only on the weekends. actually its coming along pretty well for the time i've spent on it

well work is coming to a halt these next few weeks. gotta get things moved out of the place i'm in right now. here's some updated pix though

Temp. set of stairs to get stuff up to the second floor


my finger after I hit it with the big hammer and the subfloor i threw the hammer at after I hit my finger



second floor pretty well set

just have to do the master bedroom


Put in a french door

good progress. Sorry about your finger. Hope it heals good.

Hey Ding
I know how it goes two steps forward three back been there actually that project makes me jealous I would love to rebuild a house like that give me a break from the Ford talk about some one taking forever to get any thing done on a car I am sure I take the record.


The House is really looking good You have to look at what you started and when? It wasn't all that long ago when you started.

Have you thought about all new electrical and new plumbing yet? before insulation and Sheetrock? I would do all new at this time.
Probably all new heat and air as well.

Don't worry about that finger it'll feel better when it quits hurting



What was the major cause to the second floor sagging?
Did you find bad wood or was the foundation movement causing it? or was it a combo of both?

I like the French door job looks tons better than what you took out.

its all gonna be new doright. when i gutted it everything came out.
as far as the second floor sagging, most of it was just the 200 year old 7x7 beams they had running 25 ft with no support under them. a few spots where the joists were all hacked up from plumbing and electrical

Hows the Barn looking? last I seen you took out those trees and did some dirt work out in front of it.

How come everything you do is a trainwreck Ding?