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...

Back to the ceiling

Now that the floor is finally done, it's time to go back to the ceiling.  I had to move everything...  Lots of open space now.

The drywall jack is very useful for bringing down the joists nicely.

Since the floor is level now, I decided to just measure to 8'1" on each side and put in a nail on each side to rest the joist on once I got it up.

I'm definitely glad I waited to do the ceiling until I had the floor to work from.  This is how level the joist was after the first try, and this took much less time than in the master bedroom.

And this is what the first one done looks like.

Finising up the floor

There's not much to say about the rest of this, it was pretty straightforward and went the same way as the first part of the room.  Just very time consuming.

I also decided it makes the most sense to put the 2nd floor subpanel in the master bedroom closet instead, and I'm going to be moving the main plumbing stack to the other side of that wall, so it doesn't interfere with the dining room below.  So that's why there is a section left out of the floor.

Leveling weirdness

So I couldn't use the screw 2x6s to the sides of the joists like I did before since they are too tall by about 1/4" with all the cross lumber, which means its time to pull out all that stuff

 
I decided after consulting my civil engineer friend that pulling out all the 2x4s and 1" thick stuff and then running the 2x6s over it with OSB blocks screwed onto the sides would be best.  It's a lot more work than just screwing 2x6s to the sides, but at least doesn't cost more since I had a ton of scrap OSB pieces that aren't really large enough to use for the floor.

In the hammering that I did with installing those, I made a mess downstairs in the kitchen doorway...

1940's composite joists

The only room left to level is the master bedroom, but to start on it I have to get all that other floor off the floor first.  I just threw it down behind the porch, it's interesting how much larger the pile seems in person.  I ended up making a post on Craigslist for "Free Firewood" thinking someone might use it as shop firewood.  Five people ended up contacting me about it, and none wanted it for firewood... They took most of it so it wasn't even a full trailer load to take to the dump, which was nice.

After pulling I up the subfloor, I was surprised by what I found.  It seems there were just 2x6s there originally which just held up the ceiling, but then they added a room and 2x6s aren't really enough for a floor.  So instead of replacing them, they just used some 1" thick lumber running across perpendicularly and then 2x4s on top of each of the 2x6s.  Everything was nailed together pretty well at least.