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Mr. Destructo
I’ve been working on converting three houses into two this month at Habitat. Today we got far enough that I could visualize what the end result will be, which makes it much easy to see what should happen next.
The biggest challenge is the main floor, which was framed as a single unit and now needs to be split in half. Each half will be come the entrance to a three story. Since we need a 2 hour fire barrier between houses, we had to break a center load baring wall. So we built new temporary supports on each side. Then cut the house down the middle, reworked the center wall in two halves (supporting an existing 2nd, 3rd floor and attic), removed the temporary walls and started putting in the fire barrier.