Don't worry it's nowhere near as serious as the damn hole problem (oops, I said I wouldn't mention that again)
The spare bedroom wasn't undergoing major changes in the build but we did decide to move the doorway. The room is longish and fairly narrow, a pretty impractical shape for a bedroom, compounded by the door opening into where it makes most sense to put a double bed. This meant the bed had to pushed up against the wall so the door could still open and obviously meant you could access both sides of the bed - a pain for guests and bed making!
So as the other side of the wall is now in a corridor we're moving the doorway further down the wall to make the space more usable.
As shown in the pic - the yellow line is the old doorway, the green line is the approximate position of the new doorway.
Anyhow.... they starting my making two long vertical cuts with the circular saw - and then the wall dropped
away from the corner
and down - this is the line they'd drawn - you can see in this blurry pic how much it dropped
This is a similar problem to the bathroom wall dropping although that was compounded by a leak.
We have solid walls upstairs and basically they weren't built right and aren't supported on the joists correctly.
So now Shaun is advising we replace the two remaining internal solid walls that aren't affected by the build. This also includes the wall between the boys bedroom and my study - eeek!
Joists and walls that don't slot together prperly? I've never heard of such a thing!
ReplyDeleteNone of our rooms are even straight - every wall is at odd angles with the next, I guess the victorians weren't into accuracy...