@7:20 Enjoy all the videos documenting your building journey. Just be careful. I'm not trying to be a safety ranger, but a ladder is the most dangerous tool in most households. Please try not to stand on the top because it increases your odds of a fall. All your subs, friends, & family would hate for you to fall. Your attention to detail is outstanding. Please don't take any shortcuts when it comes to your safety.
Something is definitely needed. In my head, I was thinking that we’d open them in Spring and leave them open until Fall, but I’m not convinced they’re completely free of precipitation. A library ladder might do the trick, especially if we build shelving up there. Double purpose ladder… but we’d need to design and build shelves. Heh. Did I mention about changing things too much?
That poor puppy. It's kind of funny but kind of sad at the same time. He'll get it though, and then, like a human child, he'll go up and down faster than you think safe. Those dang building codes. I've been doing a lot of reading before I dig my first post hole. Did you consider 1x3s attached perpendicular to the joists? Then you could have spaced them at 16" of and they may have been easier to install. Looks great though. Lots of learning on this build for when you get going on the actual house, huh?
He’s already racing up and down the stairs; it just took him a few weeks to get there. Patience and encouragement is key, especially with Rhodesian Ridgebacks. :) Our ceiling joists are just strangely designed. I mean, there is a reason why they are the way they are: We wanted the planned metal ceiling to go in a specific direction, and we wanted all our screws in a line going N-S. We’re still hoping to use metal on the ceiling albeit over the drywall, and that should hopefully save us the time of finishing drywall on a 16’ ceiling. We’ll see. The good news about being slow is that you have time to change things. The bad news about being slow is that you DO change things… over and over. Lots of learning indeed.
@7:20 Enjoy all the videos documenting your building journey. Just be careful. I'm not trying to be a safety ranger, but a ladder is the most dangerous tool in most households. Please try not to stand on the top because it increases your odds of a fall. All your subs, friends, & family would hate for you to fall. Your attention to detail is outstanding. Please don't take any shortcuts when it comes to your safety.
I see a need for a library ladder to reach those windows not accessible at the stairs.
Something is definitely needed. In my head, I was thinking that we’d open them in Spring and leave them open until Fall, but I’m not convinced they’re completely free of precipitation. A library ladder might do the trick, especially if we build shelving up there. Double purpose ladder… but we’d need to design and build shelves. Heh. Did I mention about changing things too much?
That poor puppy. It's kind of funny but kind of sad at the same time. He'll get it though, and then, like a human child, he'll go up and down faster than you think safe.
Those dang building codes. I've been doing a lot of reading before I dig my first post hole. Did you consider 1x3s attached perpendicular to the joists? Then you could have spaced them at 16" of and they may have been easier to install. Looks great though.
Lots of learning on this build for when you get going on the actual house, huh?
He’s already racing up and down the stairs; it just took him a few weeks to get there. Patience and encouragement is key, especially with Rhodesian Ridgebacks. :)
Our ceiling joists are just strangely designed. I mean, there is a reason why they are the way they are: We wanted the planned metal ceiling to go in a specific direction, and we wanted all our screws in a line going N-S.
We’re still hoping to use metal on the ceiling albeit over the drywall, and that should hopefully save us the time of finishing drywall on a 16’ ceiling. We’ll see. The good news about being slow is that you have time to change things. The bad news about being slow is that you DO change things… over and over.
Lots of learning indeed.