First room framed

First thing to do is build that platform thing I'm putting over the stairs, but to do that I had to take out the old drywall and move my electrical stuff.  The rigging axe is amazing for dealing with the drywall.

Short walls built:

And platform, which ended up being a pain since many of my 2x6s are super warped.  Then after struggling through that, I realized the one end had to be about 1" shorter than the other since the house isn't square...

Here's a look from the stairs:

And the last big section of wall:

Then the small part over the stairs:

Looks kind of like the office part of a garage or something since it's the only room done for now:

And then I went to Lowe's since I massively underestimated the amount of 2x4's I'd need.  No idea how, but I bought around 36, and ended up buying another 60.

First angley wall

A lot of the walls that I'm putting up will need to have an angled portion to go along with the roof line, so they're more tricky to build.  At least the roof is a 30 degree slope so it's relatively easy to cut everything.  I put this wall up and down every time to make sure everything fit, this is one of the earlier dry fits:

And this is how I "measured" the length for each of the angled studs:

To secure the wall to the existing wall I used a piece of 2x4 as a spacer with a few of the old nails that have to be 4.5" long to go through all of it.  After cutting out the hole for the vent, putting on the crown plate, and nailing everything together, here it is:

While I was up on the ladder I found one of the places the bats might have come in... Where the new wall is is on the right of this picture:

Puzzelcutting

I didn't think cutting down the stuff from the old roof overhang would be a pain but it actually was, especially trimming everything so the drywall would sit correctly.  It took forever and was surprisingly exhausting, and I got sawdust in my ears so that was great.  The drywall lift came in handy again though.

This is what it looked like after the first rough cut.  At least half the work was trimming everything so the drywall would fit right, but I didn't take pictures of that since it to doesn't look much different...

Put the new header-like thing to keep everything tied together.

And then put up the rest of the ceiling joists, clean up the insane mess that I made, and reorganize so I can build more walls.

Yay Permits?

Finally got my permits, I was looking into what I needed to do to get them and one of the inspectors called me back they told me that I would have to get them today or wait an undetermined amount of time since they're going to be closed for the Coronavirus starting tomorrow.  So I ended up scrambling some building plans together, and got all the permits:

Unfortunately, they took the original plan, but at least they gave me a copy...

First wall!

I decided to buy a bathtub and get that into the bathroom area first so I don't have to worry about dealing with moving it when there's walls in the way:

I wanted each of the studs for the wall to be directly under each of the ceiling joists, so I cut the crown plate to length and clamped it up to the ceiling joists, using strings stapled onto the sides with sawzall blades at the bottom to get it lined up.  Then I marked it:

And measure the stud length:

Then transfer the markings onto the other 2 plates:

And now to nail it all together, going from this side, there's the bottom plate for the bathroom wall to hold it to nail it against:

Since I'm not good enough to do the other side without bracing, I nailed 2 small pieces of wood into the subfloor:

Now to put the door frame in:

For some reason, one of the ceiling joists was a bit lower than the others, so I had to unscrew it to get the wall up...

To get everything aligned, square, plumb, and true, I kept the wall standing with a clamp and used my hammer to tap it into place:

Then I shimmed it on the top and nailed the bottom plate in.  I still need to put in the brackets, so I put a clamp on each end to make sure it doesn't move:

Woo more ceilings

Got that one rafter back up, so hopefully it's fine...

The middle section is done now, but I still have to deal with the weird wall part.

Well after a ton of hammering and stuff, it's finally down, but I'll have to put up another ceiling joist that I don't have the wood for right now.

And also got the newer part up.

I decided to put up one piece of drywall over the stairs so I won't have to use those things as a work platform for over the stairs until I get to redoing the stairs.

And I decided to pull the one inside wall by the master bedroom down since building around it would be a pain with the lumber dimensions.

Front room ceiling almost raised

It doesn't look like much in pictures, but having the ceiling joists raised up by about a foot really changes the feel of the room.

And one of the rafters somehow detached from the sheathing, so I pulled that down and now I have to figure out how to reattach it without putting holes in the roof.  But that's a problem for me next week...