Restoring A $7,000 Mansion: Building The Attic Loft Walls

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Use those spaces for storing Christmas stuff (artificial trees, wreaths, collapsible boxes, bags, wrapping paper, ornaments, etc...} Make your doors large enough that you can put those items in totes to keep our dust and bugs.

Cole get some fluorescent spray paint and mark the areas that need to be filled in so they’re easily visible for the foam guys

A suggestion for your sewer, check out This Old House Season 45, episode 19. A new pipe is pulled through the old! No digging, trenching, or concrete removed.

When you get this house done, make a placque listing everyone who helped build and when the work started and ended. Validation, thanks and honor.

For the larger cubby space, build bookcases on the sides, flush mount lights above, paint it to look like the inside of a tent or tree house and have a cozy, secret reading nook filled with kids books. We had a space like that under some stairs when I was little and it was my favorite space! Beanbag chairs and some blankets--easy to pull out and use in the main space too. Later, you could make it permanent storage for decor, but let the boys have a special little space while they are young!

Cole, while you have the walls open, run ethernet cable through the walls too. At least one to every room!

The problem you have with your roof is that the rafter is putting all of its downward force onto your pony wall, causing the point where the rafter meets the wall to want to spread out and collapse the highest point of the roof downward. Normally, this is counteracted with the ceiling joists between the second floor and the attic serving as collar ties, preventing the outer walls from being able to spread outward. But because you have a pony wall, the point at which the roof meets the wall is several feet from the nearest joist, creating a lever. Adding the diagonal bracing was a good idea, but now the outward pressure on the wall is only being restricted by some structural screws and the new pony wall over a non-load bearing section of the structure. You need to add another diagonal going in the opposite direction to keep the load over the outside wall and ensure that the little diagonal you have isn't trying to support the roof from splaying out by transferring the load onto a ceiling joist that is several feet from the outside, load-bearing wall. You then need to add perlins to the underside of your rafters to deal with the snow and wind loads, and then you need to add collar ties near the peak off the roof to also help avoid the roof splaying and to help distribute the load evenly across the whole roof.

I’m 53 and watched since day one and I’ve learned a lot from this project. I’ve remodeled and built but there’s always education when you have a job like this. Give your wife as much holiday storage you can…. You will be glad you did.

With your wife wanting multiple trees, I think it should definitely be Christmas Tree and Decor storage. We never realize how much space those things up. Good luck, love the videos!

Secret rooms for storage. Also fun for kids to play in.

Hey Gents, 22 minutes in, that'd be a great place for a hidden room for valuables or firearms. ALSO, I think it'd be cool to see some drawers in those short walls. You're doing a great job, love the house and the craftsmanship!

Christmas decorations, camping gear, reading nook for the kids, storage, storage, storage you can never have enough!

Roman’s chickens 🐓 🐥🐣🐤🐓🐔 could be stored in these attic spaces . The city will never know!

The attic nooks look like a perfect spot for xmas/easter/halloween decorations

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You should hire an artist, who specializes in leaded glass, take the decorative glass from the old windows and make something for the inside of the house. Use it in a pantry door, or even frame it and hang it in the new windows.

The composition and editing on this are phenomenal! I can't remember the editor's name, but I just wanted to say thank you. The videos are so much fun to watch.

Nooks..playhouse hideout for boys, seasonal clothes, dog bed, extra pillows abnd blankets, toys, bins of pictures (I have several), historical things ,CHRISTMAS DECOR AND LIGHTS, games and puzzles, childhood memories..the list is endless!

Yikes! Sounds like a $7,000 home turning into a $7M dollar home. It’s going to be awesome! Looking forward to see the completed mansion. ⭐️👍