Saving What I Can (Part 1)
Published By mike
There’s a lot of great trim, baseboard, and flooring that I’m hoping to save and reuse in the new place. It’s coming out pretty good so far! Also, very interesting info to learn as we started opening up walls; the house was built using something called “balloon framing” where the walls are stood up first and then the floors are added later. (you can see in the wall section that the floor doesn’t go all the way to the edge, the floor joist is mounted to the side of the stud) There was no insulation in the exterior walls, which I’m finding out is normal for pre 1920’s construction. Another cool fact, the space above the bar was all one room at one time, you can see in the one wall section that the walls were actually put in later, before that it was a dance hall!
I love it! I’ll be checking back frequently! I can’t wait for it to be done