Things got pretty slow around here for a while, with Thanksgiving and all that. Had a good time, met with family, Anne and Dave who we really don't get to see often enough, which also applies to Sally, and Stratton and Carol, and completely fairly to Me Mum, and T's Mum as well. Spent all of a couple of minute with the grandboys and very soon be another Mum-X3. Got to take warm showers a couple of times, drive back and forth across states calmly without hurries, and just take it easy for a few. Had a tasty dinner in the mix. All in all, pretty good.
Then back to it. We had a mere 2/3rds of the FoP (tm) (floor of pain) yet to do. We burned up the rest of our supplies, then we knew what we had. We use on average 7 bags of sand (350lbs dry weight) per sheet of flooring, and had 6 full sheets and lots of bits and pieces to fill to call it done. Off the shop, 7 more sheets of flooring (best to buy just not enough, than to have extra kicking around in the way for years to come) and 49 bags of sand, transported with a Prius with a trailer, and a hearty if aged light toyota pickup. A couple of trips, and it was done, then the big push began, and a half a day of pain, then a full long day, with Bob mixing the sand/cement under an EZ-up in the rain and finally!!!
Yeah, I know, ain't much for look'n at. Sure, this is true. But I promise:
This was an unholy amount of work.
Lessons learned.
If you are going to do this, it's a lot harder than you think.
If you don't need oxygen barrier tubing, don't use oxygen barrier tubing.
Make a VERY CAREFUL and DETAILED map of the floor. You might think you can remember 'well enough' and you might think you can shoot some marking paint to help you keep your bearings, and you've perhaps convinced yourself that it's not really necessary, that you can remember, , but once that floor is closed, you are now blind. You cannot know with absolute certainty EXACTLY where those tubes are.
When the time comes to start adding walls, you had better be really certain you know where it's safe to add a screw, or a nail. Oh my, yes.
Now, I'm pretty sure I know where it's okay to set a screw, , but the screws I'm using will protrude through the OSB flooring by only 1/32 of an inch or so (if I don't overdrive them), yet, putting up the walls is scaring the willies out of me. Really.
All that said:
In the mean time, afore mentioned pre-Mum-X3 became Mum-X3, Welcome lil Jillian!
But that's down there, here at Cold Comfort, the interior walls begin:
Started with the bathroom, as this is the room that will have the most floor penetrations. We measured carefully, wrote down dimensions and notes on the walls so we wouldn't lose them, did everything we could think of, but when it came time to take a drill and shoot holes blindly into the floor, I promise you, we Did Not know everything we wished.
What you see here is the shower pan, and the Sun-Mar composting toilet. Just laid in there to try and determine the final dimensions. This bathroom will be exactly big enough, and not a bit bigger than that. As much as I like roomy water closets and bathrooms, we are space constrained, and hopefully, one shan't be spending one's days in the bathroom, but rather in the living space. So, things are being laid out accordingly.
And that's how things stand, here at Cold Comfort, today.
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