Feats of Engineering
I need some feats of engineering.
Last night I watched a couple hours of History Channel shows called Secret Superpower Aircraft. Over and over they talked about the engineering marvels of the times like developing VTOL aircraft (vertical take off and landing). If they can build supersonic long-range bombers that can land in the ocean and be refueled and re-armed by submarines, then surely I can figure out how to frame my wacky laundry room.
Just when I think I'm getting good at stuff something throws me for a loop. Framing the kitchen walls for instance, I've been rockin' the house. I got my cheapo table saw working better with a new blade and adjusting the rip fence. I riped down some 2x6's and built up the counter for my bar height counter that's going in the window between the kitchen and the living room. Even all the crazy old crooked lumber couldn't stop me.
But the laundry room is a total brain teaser. Everything is so out of whack and against stuff you read in books, it's really hard to know what to do. If you were doing this house the RIGHT way, you would tear the whole thing off and start over.
I've been drawing diagrams and researching special steel connectors to try and come up with the smart way of doing this. I'm looking for some feats of engineering. But no one has the answers for this stuff because it's not the way you do it to begin with.
It's so complicated, I don't even want to go into it on the blog. It's THAT complicated.
I've bored a couple people with the details so far, and now I'm done talking about it. I just have to go ahead and do something good enough and not worry that it won't last 100 years. And at some point someone will probably tear the whole thing off. Oh well. Maybe they'll make a fun home makeover show about it.