Rubber roofing

Finally time to actually start on the rubber roof.  That plastic I put down held up surprisingly well for how long it was there.

Had to put in the extra railing posts and a rail for the side since I don't want any water going that way.  It looks crooked, but it's just the slope of the flat roof.

I also decided to put in some blocking so water couldn't pool in front of those two posts on the side.  Later I'd find out this was a mistake.

 Everything is prepped.

I couldn't really take pictures while I was doing it, but this is it after the latex adhesive for the majority of the flat part is done.

As I was down working on the sides and stuff, I noticed that it felt like the roof was burning my knees.  It was 76F outside and sunny...  I ended up spraying the roof with some water a bunch of times and that helped it a lot.

Many hours of frustration later it's done.  Dealing with this is definitely the worst thing on the house so far and hopefully it stays that way.  Basically all of the adhesive stuff after that first latex stuff was a huge pain because it would stick in the wrong place.  Luckily the creases are covered up by house wrap and the siding.

 

Replacing the bathroom window

I need both a header and a tempered glass window in the bathroom.

That scaffolding on wheels is super useful since I can just roll it around to wherever I need it.  When I was first buying the tempered windows I tried to get an off-the-shelf one, and the closest dimesion was a bit shorter and wider than the old one.  That ended up not working out, but I guess when I ordered this one I had forgotten about that and still got that size.  You would think something that is commonly required by building code would be easy to get in a store like Lowe's or Home Depot, but apparently not.

This whole process went way faster than I expected, so I guess now I have an extra day to clean up my upstairs...

 

Replacing that bedroom window

Now on to the window.  The city building inspector wants all of the windows to have headers, which means I have to reframe all of them, and since I'm reframing them, I might as well replace them even though they are modern double pane windows since they were beat to hell by the tenants.

I made it mostly mirror the front windows, and also be the same size, so now this one is longer than the old one.

It seemed pretty stupid to do all this covering for one night, but I'm really glad I did with the storm that night.

 

Got the window installed the next day.

And all the housewrap on too.

Definitely getting more farm bonfire wood too.

Replacing the balcony door

I originally wanted to finish up the cabinetry, but it's way more time consuming than I thought, and I need to get the permanent roof under the balcony along with siding.  First thing to do is pull off the asbestos siding and replace that door.  I have to reframe the door since the permanent one isn't oddly wide for being off of a bedroom.

I didn't like the idea of leaving a gaping hole in house overnight, so I put the old door back over it.

Hey the new one fits.

It took many hours of shimming to get the door so it all works the way it's supposed to, but it was definitely worth it.

I'm just using the door knob and dead bolt from the other door.  Finished just in time for the rain too.

Making the hallway cabinet

I despise dead space, need something to cover up the breaker/patch panel, access for the shower valve, and main water shut off valves for the upstairs.  So I'm making a floor to ceiling cabinet thing in there.

These pieces are really long and a pain to work with.

Making sure it fits.  I had to plane off the one side to get it to line up right.

Now I have to make the box part that goes behind it.  That line boring machine is pretty awesome.

Since I want to have access to the shower valve, the backs can't be solid, so they're panels that are removable.

Wonderful planning strikes again, I had to move the breaker panel back (twice actually), and change how the shower valve and head was mounted because the wood was taking up too much space.

Fitting the medicine cabinet

Since I'm recessing the cabinet I have to cut out some of the studs and make a window opening.

I guess I could have gotten away with only cutting one of them, this is a little off center though.

That looks pretty cool.  I also moved the outlets over to the side, and put on under the vanity since I think I'll be putting an outlet into 1 or 2 of the drawers.

Lots of holes to line up on the drywall, and because of the PEX holders I can't just use a normal hole.  I ended up having to recut this piece twice because I kept messing up the measurements.

Well I think this came out really nice.  I should also add, I bought the mirror before making the medicine cabinet and made it to fit, but I'm not installing it until after I finish it.

Toilet cabinet

The cabinet for over the toilet is interesting because of the angle on the ceiling.  It took me a lot of time to figure out the cuts and get everything to fit together right.

This is will get recessed into the wall like the medicine cabinet since I hate having it too close to my head on the toilet, as well as having cabinets that are too shallow.  No doors will be going on this one.

And naturally I forgot I ran wires back there... So I have to figure out how to move them out of the way.

That should work.

I guess I didn't take any pictures of the test fit, but I will after it's installed.