Miss Barne's House

This week we started to put the house back together. It has been somewhat of a struggle. Since there is no funding for this house, it is hard to get materials, as well as other important things, like window sizes. But by the end of the week we had some window sizes and some materials, but no funding yet. We started out by putting 3/4 inch plywood over the whole floor in order to stiffen the floor a little. It work quite well. We then had to deal with the sagging cross beams of the rafters. The code down here says that if a house has ceilings shorter than 7 ft 6 in, it needs to be demolished. With the added 3/4 in of the plywood, and the sagging crossbeams, depending on where you measured due to the sloping floor, the ceiling was consistently under 7 ft 6 in. So we had to brace up the cross beams in order to raise the ceiling. We put some braces pulling it up the the angled part of the rafter.
Once we finally got some material, we could frame the interior walls and frame in the new windows. Once we got some of the windows framed in, we could also start covering up the exterior of the house so it can be insulated. Since it would have been to expensive to replace the old rotten siding we tore off with like material, the whole thing is going to get vinyl siding. So we just need to roughly cover the exterior so there is something nail the new siding too.