Hiatus

Hello Dear Readers!   We are taking a break for a couple weeks.  Please check back after the Ides of March for further progress at the Pioneer House!

Bathroom wall and Carriage house floor

Here is the bathroom wall mostly finished showing the doorway into it through the pantry. We put a little jog in the wall for the pedestal sink and to allow space for the existing window.

Above photo is looking at the wall from the kitchen.  Open doorway looking into the pantry and the electrical panel at the end.  Below photo just showing the doorway into the bathroom.

Now to the carriage house floor.  New beams above and floor filled in almost ready for cement to be poured.

New pads to be poured in place.

It was a pretty wet day.  A lot of water flowing between the carriage house and the shop.
Below photo is a nice shot showing the big house in relation to the carriage house.

Bathroom wall and Carriage house

Today the kitchen wall was torn out to be rebuilt as a bathroom wall.

Here is the new wall.  The open doorway to the left will lead into a hall/pantry and a door to the bathroom.  I never liked a bathroom door opening into a kitchen, hopefully this will be an improvement.

And now to what we are calling the carriage house.  I remember this space as the woodshed where a lot of kindling was chopped to the proper thinness!  The ceiling needed to be reinforced as several of the beams were broken.

Below photo shows where the stairs will be installed to get to the second floor.  A big full sized room up there and now safely reinforced.

Finished shingled siding

With the completion of the shingled siding, most of the outside work on Pioneer House has been completed.  We have ordered seven replacement windows which will take anywhere from eight to ten weeks to be delivered.  Eventually all windows will be replaced of course, but we wanted to start with just a few.  We have been talking and talking to trades people about heating, plumbing, wiring, and insulation.  Lots of decisions to be made, and not much reportable progress yet!

A couple of shots coming and going on Logen Road, just below Pioneer House.  It was a beautiful winter day.

Inside and outside work

Here we have put up the tar paper and are ready for the shingle siding.

Starter course of shingles goes on trimmed short off the fat end so that the next course, which will be installed directly over it, will be at an even thickness.

As you can see here, this is the first full row.  Subsequent rows will be installed at a 5.5 inch exposure.

Dining room ceiling with the boards taken out where the new support beams will be installed.

Here is the supports that are lifting the floor upstairs in prepration to install the new beams in the dining room.

Parlor room with the new joists sistered ( meaning connected to ) onto the existing joists.

Here we struck gold, finally!  Not really...but if you can make it out, this is part of the insulation found jammed into the wall.  1898 gold rush to Alaska. 

Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Saturday, July 23, 1898.

Everyone was off to Alaska

Imported violins for 10$ and up.  1898 must have been when the first part of the house was built, and perhaps 1901 was when the second half of the house was finished. 

Below photo is of the parlor and the new sistered on joists sitting on the LVL headers going into the small room we call the library.