It's NUDE! (Or, We Took All That Aluminum Siding Off ... eep)
OK, so here we are. Things continue to progress slightly over-budget and behind schedule, so, situation: normal. We’ve also hit the point of very frequent, “oh wait, now we can’t…”’ moments. I kind of thought these would come earlier in the project like, “oh wait, the wall is full of sludge, now we can’t afford floors.” But, no, no, the devil seems to really be in the small details where the plan collides with the real world. An example: Soffit Struggles Part of opening up the first floor meant putting some huge beams in place of the old walls. Sometimes you can “tuck” beams up into the floor joists that they support; however, in our case, the beams were left below the joists because 1) it was structurally better and 2) we needed to run some plumbing in the same places as the beams anyway, so, no matter what, something would be poking out of the ceiling. So, we knew there would be some big soffits along the ceiling when all was said and done. Then the plumber ran the new sanitary...