Carport Room Diary - Updated 7 March

[crokett]

I will update this thread similar to the new shop diary. I am adding a room under the carport. I started the work this weekend. Didn't get quite as far as I wanted, but then all the fussy work is done. That kneewall was a major PITA. The concrete is out almost 1.5" side to side and it crowns in the middle. There's probably a faster way but what I did was get the bottom plate down, get the 2 end uprights and the top plate on. cut an upright just short and use it+ my crowbar to wedge the middle level, then mark and cut each upright. Oh, a mason did the brick work across the front. If I'd done it, it would be level but it would look like crap.

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[crokett]

Ready for inspection. Floor is framed, what electrical rough-in needs it is done. Insulation is done. Mechanical is done. Framing is 2x10s 16" OC. Total length is 18'. There is a support wall at 9' and the joists are blocked. I was bouncing on it and there was absolutely no movement.

[Pappy]

You need to fix the border edging on the bed!

[Ed62]

Looks good so far. I built a 16' X 27' addition on our home, but I didn't take even 1 picture during the process. Now I wish I had done that.

Ed

[crokett]

You need to fix the border edging on the bed!

I don't like that edging. My wife does and I haven't found anything I like well enough to replace it with.

[cabinetman]

You need to fix the border edging on the bed!

I used to have that in front of a front window, and it's a PITA to keep the grass trimmed clean, and they fall over easy.
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[crokett]

Cabman, that is why I don't like them.

[Shep]

Looking good. By the way, do you ever do any small projects?

[crokett]

Sure I do! Big projects are just a lot of little ones. Do enough little ones and you've done one big one. The support wall was a small one. The HVAC was another small one. Framing the floor was a small one....

[dbhost]

Looks good so far. Glad to see that type of edging is a pain to someone else besides me... LOML loves it, I hate it... Oh well...

[crokett]

One of the beams is in. This was the difficult one. I had two choices, either cut the joists back (basically reframe the floor) and drop it in from the top, or do what I did which was to cut through from the outside and slide it in under the joists. I will repair the brick later. The beams are 4 2x12s ganged together. The front one will be the easy one, relatively speaking. I will just add that in place of the band and use joist hangers on the joists.

[Pappy]

Four 2x12's? That is one Helluva beam!

[crokett]

Yup. That is what the inspector says is needed to span 14' though. And that is the first one - there will be another out at the front where the band joist was.

[pelligrini]

What was thier justification about not letting the floor bear on the slab? No foundation drawings?

[cabinetman]

Two by twelves, nice and heavy to pop your rivets.
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