{"id":4,"date":"2013-12-22T03:54:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-22T03:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.homegardencompanion.com\/house\/?p=4"},"modified":"2015-03-18T18:20:41","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T18:20:41","slug":"4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homegardencompanion.com\/house\/4\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebuilding A Bedroom: The Walls"},"content":{"rendered":"

And now for the walls:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Now that the old ceiling has been totally removed and the old oak joists exposed, it was time to remove the old plaster & lath walls.\u00a0 In 2 previous rooms I had done, I left all 4 plastered walls intact and faced them with 1\/4″ drywall.\u00a0 In this room I decided to remove the plaster and lath on the 2 exterior walls so I could remove the old blown-in insulation (to be replaced with R11 fiberglass insulation).\u00a0 With the 2 interior walls I left the old plaster in place and faced them with the 1\/4″ drywall.\u00a0 This is a fairly simple way to obtain a new smooth surface.\u00a0 To make certain the 1\/4″ drywall stayed in place I used heavy duty Liquid Nails adhesive and drywall screws.<\/p>\n

I also removed the window and door casings and the baseboards.\u00a0 Next, on the exterior walls I adjusted the electrical outlets, and since I had those walls open, I decided to add another 2 outlets.\u00a0 Per NEC you are supposed to have an outlet within 6 feet (Thus, you could have them 12′ apart and be in the middle and therefore within 6 feet of an outlet).\u00a0 Being an old house, it is “grandfathered in”.\u00a0 But, given the opportunity to easily add an additional couple outlets, I did.<\/p>\n

Since the old floor was still in place, we were able to sweep up and dispose of the plaster just as we had for the ceiling.\u00a0 We also used the same fan set-up to exhaust the dust.<\/p>\n

Old<\/span> Construction Issues:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Now that I had the ceiling and 2 walls exposed down to the joists and studs, it was time to prepare to install the drywall.\u00a0 However, there was a problem that needed to be addressed first.<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0 As I previously mentioned, the ceiling sagged (saucer like) to about a 4″ dip in the center of the room.\u00a0 A previous post explains why.\u00a0 In order to rectify this, I purchased 2x8x16′ boards to sister on to the old oak joists.\u00a0 The actual span was a little under 16′.\u00a0 Once I cut them to the proper length and mitered the top edges to follow the rafter line, I had my son lift them up to me through the 2nd floor bedroom window.\u00a0 We installed them one at a time lifting into place.\u00a0 We applied heavy duty Liquid Nails adhesive to the old oak joist, then manuevered the new joist onto the 2 end plates.\u00a0 Once in place, I used 3″ deck screws to sister the new joist onto the old.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0 Once we had all the new boards “sistered” to the old joists it was time to trim off the sagged part of the old oak joists that sagged below the new ones.\u00a0 The easiest way to do this was to just carefully run my circular saw along the bottom sagged edge of the old oak joist to make it level (even) with the new joists. Where I couldn’t quite get to the edges (by the wall) with the circular saw, I trimmed off the remaining 2-3″ with my reciprocating saw. By doing this, I now basically had double joisted the span.\u00a0 This had accomplished 2 things.\u00a0 First, I greatly strengthened\/reinforced the span.\u00a0 Second, I now not only had a level ceiling, I had a level base for laying down subfloor T&G plywood in the attic above for storage space.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0 The walls presented another problem.\u00a0 The old oak studs were not on center and they were not plumb.\u00a0 They varied in thickness from 2″-2-1\/4″.\u00a0 The main problem was that not only were they not plumb, but they varied in width from about 3-3\/4″ to 4-1\/4″.\u00a0 AND, there was sometimes that variation in the same stud from top to bottom..\u00a0 How I handled that was to sister new studs onto the old ones plus add a few new ones.\u00a0 This still resulted in some of the old studs being wider than the new ones.\u00a0 What I did was use my DeWalt portable planer to plane\/shave the old oak studs down to the same width as the new ones.\u00a0 Since I was going to install my drywall horizontally, it wasn’t as critical to have the studs perfectly plumb.<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0 Now that the demolition and prep work was done, my next step was to install the ceiling drywall.\u00a0 I will discuss this in my next post.<\/p>\n

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And now for the walls: Now that the old ceiling has been totally removed and the old oak joists exposed, it was time to remove the old plaster & lath walls.\u00a0 In 2 previous rooms I had done, I left all 4 plastered walls intact and faced them with 1\/4″ drywall.\u00a0 In this room I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-remodeling","category-walls"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5,"url":"https:\/\/www.homegardencompanion.com\/house\/getting-started\/","url_meta":{"origin":4,"position":0},"title":"Getting started","author":"Handyman","date":"December 19, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"First order of business in beginning this project is to:Get room cleared out of all the stuff that had accumulated in it over the years.\u00a0 Since the room was basically unusable as an occupied space, it became very useful as a dumping ground.\u00a0 We called this room the \"junk room\"\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":76,"url":"https:\/\/www.homegardencompanion.com\/house\/totally-renovated-kitchen\/","url_meta":{"origin":4,"position":1},"title":"Totally renovated Kitchen","author":"Ilona","date":"September 12, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Back in 2000 we did a total kitchen renovation. 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