One Down...Addition Progress

One of the first things the Contractor did was take out a whole wall! It's just crazy when you know this is the plan, you know it's going to happen, and then it really happens! We are converting the boys' old play room into part of our new master bedroom.

Above is the before picture; it was a very tiny room. I can't believe we once tried to "multi-purpose this room by using it as a guest room/office/nursery and/or playroom...At one point, it was H-Bomb's bedroom, then it became the official play room/office, so H-Bomb and Sawed Off refer to it as "H-Bomb's old room."


This is a picture taken from inside the addition, the logs used to be the outside wall of the house. Down past the second small window is where H-Bomb's old room is. The contractor built a temporary "wall" of 2x4's on each side of the log wall to support the entire structure when the wall came out.


Here's a better view of the outer temporary wall, as well as the size of H-Bomb's old room. That hole used to be his window, and the cutout on the left is in line with the wall inside the room.


This picture is taken from the inside of the existing room, looking out through the cutout that was on the left in the previous picture.


You can see the interior temporary wall here, as well as the window (again). Those two points of light are windows in the addition that will be in the main part of the master window. To the right of those are two more windows as well.



There is the contractor, getting ready to tear down the wall. He's already taken down the old paneling and drywall, exposing the old logs of the structure. When he separated the log wall from the ceiling, the whole wall was sort of wobbly, which makes it hard to believe that a stack of logs was supporting the whole house!


Walk away for a while, and most of the wall is gone! You can see a few logs remaining to be removed. It is crazy that the logs are just stacked together, with some big nail things holding them together. Did I mention how wobbly they were?


Later, after more sawing, they hoisted up the support beam. The beam not only supports the new trusses in the addition, it also has brackets on the other side to support the old trusses in the existing structure.


This is a very heavy piece of lumber, so I certainly did not want to get very close to it. Just in case.

And then, the beam was in place. The temporary walls were taken down, and the possibilities of this new room are becoming evident. So exciting!