Genius Hour

 Hello everyone and welcome back for another eventful week! This week I purchased all the lumber I needed to begin framing my new laundry room! After bring everything downstairs and started, I realized just how unprepared I was!!! The room unfortunetly isn't a perfect square and has many items such as the stairs, furnace supply and dryer exhaust causing me to create many bulk heads. Although it took longer than expected, I managed to frame 90% of my outer wall. Here's how it turned out! As you can see my laundry room is a mess and I had to remove all the old plumbing rough ins so my laundry is now disabled. The  reason I was unable to finish the last few studs is due to the the ceiling. Since I had lots of plumbing and gas piping I planned to straddled the ceiling with 2x4 in order to drop it beneath all the existing work. What I didn't realize is my dishwasher supply was copper and not easily movable. So I will need to purchase a new supply and move more plumbing work to c...

 Hello everyone and welcome back! This week has been the most challenging one thus far! To ensure my laundry room will be up to building code I had to review the Ontario building code and make some slight revisions to my original plan. One of my first concerns was the venting required for my plumbing rough ins. Since no vent was accessible I have to look for alternative measures. I learned you can use an AAV vent to overcome this problem! Since I will need room for my laundry exhaust I have decided to put my wall 6 inches away from the foundation to ensure I won't have any issues fitting all my HVAC and plumbing.  After assessing all of my neccesary rough ins, it became time to consider how much material I will need to frame. Like many of you reading this blog, I don't like to waste money. When preparing to frame my laundry room I used my template to calculate the perimeter of my room. If you weren't aware, studs have 16" centers, allowing me to approximate how many 2x...