Jerry, our Los Angeles friend, pseudo-poppa, neighbor, and messiah of anything that has to do with building, deemed that we needed to not only take Jeff’s idea of expanding the master into the living room by 42 inches, but also take the master bedroom out into the backyard another 2 feet.
view with the living room wall removed, now that’s a nice sized house!
It was simple as pie in his eyes (he was determined and we went along for the ride.) In doing so, we also wanted to carry the master bathroom out the two feet to match the dimensions of the expansion of the bedroom. But that meant that by expanding the living room we had to fix the improperly built cantilever to match the bath/living room wall was that we had to remove the supporting I-beam and compensate for the distance.
master bedroom with wall extended by 42″ and joists supporting floor
make it level boyfriend
To remove the I-beam, we had to double all of the supporting ceiling joists to compensate for the compensate for the cantivler, double the supporting floor joists. I’m sure Jerry will call to correct my inaccuracies later. The original remodel (existing) floor joists were half of the length they should have been (hello, inspection?) which could have posed a big problem had we not been redoing it all from the bottom up. So by increasing the floor space by 2 feet, we doubled the joists to more than compensate the extra 2 feet of cantilever.
Is that where my bathtub window is going to go?
I know, this is confusing huh? There is more boring info about shear factor and deflection that none of us get, except for Jerry, so we’ll just leave it at as is above and show more pretty pictures.
Bottom line is: we get a bigger master bedroom and bathroom. Thank you Jerry!
Hey! they got it framed, and windows too.
Nate, you are a dog
rebuilding the wall between the new master bath and the living room
seriously. you aren’t that tough.
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who is that nate guy he is a handsome bloke