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Mar
13
2006
 0

Clearer?


Since the last post made no sense. Here is a better (I hope) explanation. (Bored yet?) The plans were based on measurements of the old house, which were slightly off. Front to back across the bedrooms, the drawings were 2.5 inches short. So the trusses were short. And the length of the bathtub was wrong. It was drawn 6 inches longer than it is. So the wall between the kitchen and living room, which lines up with the wall that the door to the bathroom is on is 6 inches back from the front of the house. (whew) The trusses that meet it from the front are too short and the ones from the back are too long.
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In other news, the trusses over the two old bedrooms were modified to fit, and are in place now. The pony wall over all the old walls is done. After seeing everything they had to do to the old walls, it seems like an extravagance to preserve them. Which makes me happy. There are 3-4 foot wide strips cut out of the sheetrock to add reinforcement the old walls.

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