Kitchen Door

One of the final [major] projects remaining is to move the kitchen door... ultimately it's moving about 11" to the left from it's original spot and it will be about 38" wide (originally 28"). The challenge is that it's in a bearing wall and the wooden sill atop the foundation it sits on turned to swiss cheese long ago.

Undeterred by limited time, Alli tore into the floor saturday night to get at the sill while i braced the bearing load at the second floor. We found similar rot and replaced studs with new bearing at every point.








we are perpetually changing the working drawings.



we keep finding a disturbing amout of "Indian Burial Grounds" under the main floor



the dog's cute but he can't swing a hammer so he's of no use.




Finished late sunday.