Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Header Framing for Residential Apllications

1723 Colquitt St, Houston - Built: 1968
The majority of wall space incorporate a doorway or even eye-port starting. Extra framework assistance is required to move the actual structural pounds within the starting as well as right down to the ground. This particular framework is performed along with slimmer, full as well as cripple studs along with a header.

On top as well as base dishes, tag the middle of the actual window/door tough starting. A good architect's strategy may show exactly where they're going with regards to the actual edges, however double-check to ensure the actual opportunities have been in the best locations.

Separate the actual starting widths in two as well as calculate every path in the middle. These types of represents show in which the within advantage from the slimmer studs proceed.

Reduce the actual trimmers for that elevation from the tough eye-port or even doorway starting. After that toe nail these phones complete elevation full studs as well as set up all of them collectively. They are simpler to manage by doing this and you will plumb all of them in position in a single action.

eye-port header Find the actual header duration through calculating between your full studs. The actual header should be size to satisfy nearby creating rules. With regard to solitary eye-port or even doorway opportunities 2 2x10s nailed to one another frequently supply sufficient power. Broader opportunities may need  LVLs. Your own wood backyard or even house middle might provide recommendations as well as materials recommendations for various thickness opportunities.

Toe nail the actual header in position, nailing with the full studs to the finishes from the headers. Match cripple studs upon 16" facilities over the actual header. In some instances the actual header might wind up as well near to the best dish to make use of cripple studs. Therefore, which room should be full of wood of this width.

With regard to home windows, the sill dish at the end from the starting is actually nailed to the trimmers as well as backed through cripple studs underneath the sill dish upon 16" facilities.

Saturday, January 8, 2011

Christopher McDaniel Homes Sheetrocking Experts

A Pleasant Valley Modular home on the assembly...
Did you know that “Sheetrock” is a proprietary eponym? Just like Q-Tips and Kleenex, it is actually a brand name used in a generic manner. (Not the most thrilling piece of trivia ever, but still a nifty phrase to know!) Drywall, as it’s technically called, is composed of a gypsum plaster sandwiched between two thick pieces of hardened paper. First developed in the early twentieth century, Sheetrock is now as ubiquitous an eponym as Frisbees, Band-Aids and Escalators!
Drywall is a cumbersome, yet crucial building material, sold in large sheets like plywood. Rather than plaster an entire wall, builders simply screw a row of sheets into the studs. Once the drywall is installed, the joints between sheets are taped and sealed using a plaster compound, commonly referred to as mud. When it comes to drywalling/sheetrocking a ceiling, a device called a drywall lifter is utilized. Back in the day, builders would hoist the 70-pound sheets atop their heads — today, lifters allow them to crank the drywall up with one hand. Sheetrocking, it seems, isn't such a headache anymore.
 Contact us at Christopher McDaniel Homes for a free sheetrocking estimate today.

Friday, January 7, 2011

Sheetrock and Redesign Makes an Old Kitchen New Again

Chelsea Kitchen 4
The Christopher McDaniel Homes decision to remodel the kitchen happened so fast that I forgot to take any real "Before" photos but trust me, this kitchen was horrible !! 
During the demo of the walls I removed 2 layers of wood laminate paneling with the latest layer being some crappy looking Home Depot kitchen panels that were very poorly installed then remove some old plaster and 1 old wall of sheetrock that was gouged and had 3 different layers of wallpaper on it.

Then I moved on to the ceiling which was tiled in that old 1 x 1 ft square accoustic stuff. Thinking that the ceiling tiles were only stapled , I intended only to get back to the horse hair plaster surface, repair it and paint it. Once I saw the tiles were glued and 2 large patches of plaster were all ready loose I made the decision to demo out the plaster ceiling and sheetrock it. This is when the remodeling plans took a major turn.
 
After the ceiling was removed I could see through the wood lathe and realized that by the design of the house that we could easily raise the ceiling height in this room. I knew this kitchen was part of the original house in 1850, but I could never understand just how they added the side rooms on to it. What they did was build an entire new roof over the existing old roof. It was a strange way to do it but now I would call it an accidental stroke of genius!