Housewatch Catch-Up: The Floor

Okay, so it's been a little while since we caught you up on the house and a lot has happened. But too much for one blog so we'll do this is stages. Stage one: the floor.

So, if you remember where we left off we had just finished the greenplate. The next step was to put on the floor. To do that we had to start by putting on what's called rim board. To the left is a picture of Julie working on the rim plate. At the same time we had to build a wall across the basement. You know, to support the weight of the whole house. A good friend, Jason Standring, came out to help put up the wall. It was one of my first times building a real wall. A guy named Derrick who will eventually live right down the street from us did all the real work of making sure that Jason and I didn't mess up. What to you think?

After the floor and the rim board were up and good to go we had to put on what's called the floor joyce. Long boards that run the entire length of the house. It took a few days because the main body of the group was still focusing on two other houses. Julie and I did one half of the floor, my brother-in-law, DJ, came out and helped with the other half. I even did a few myself. But eventually we got all the floor joyce on.

Once all the floor joyce was on we just had to put on the floor. It comes in big sheets. My father-in-law and brother-in-law, Gene and Greg, came out and helped. My other brother-in-law, Ben, also came out and helped. We had to glue the floor down and then nail it. A soon-to-be neighbor, Blaine, and his father-in-law, Darryl, also helped. In the end we got the floor on and we were ready to move onto the next step: the walls. But that will have to wait for the next catch up entry.