03 - Subfloor

Precautions On Living In A Construction Site - It's no easy task when the family has to live in a construction area;

1. The key is to section off as much as possible with plastic to retain the dust - I was highly successful in this

2. We purchases an air purifier that would display blue-purple-and beep red every time it detected imperfect air which I placed close to the living areas where the family spent most of its time

3. Each days goal ended at a safe clean up point and prep for the next day--each day, meaning, the 3-4 hours on weekdays (not every weekday), after work, and 6, 8, 10, 12 hr weekend day

4. There was a lot of shuffling around of our furniture and daily items involved

1. What's not show here are the plywood sheets I would later install, used to temporarily lay over when needed, and paper laid down to act as a clean walkway.

2. It also helped for the wife and kid to be out of the house whenever possible during the dustiest segments of demolition.

3. My record for trash bags of garbage laid out for pickup is 14 at some point, but often there would be anywhere from 4 to 6 trash bags of debris to pickup up - double bagged. Renting a dumpster was impractical and expensive, so as long as the garbage bags weren't too heavy to pick up, we go away with it.

4. I installed cross-braces out of the old beams I tore down to strengthen the old wood joists.

5. The purpose of the chicken wire was to hold the R19 Insulation up because I planned to renovate the basement ceiling too (which happened a few years later).

6. There was a .75" inch deviation in height from the "T" of the hallway and the very opposite side wall (by the new open space), which I carefully leveled gradually, making the deviation unnoticeable.