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BUILDING MODERN


A MODERN DIY RENOVATION BLOG

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JAPANESE SHED BUILD TIMELAPSE!

October 25, 2023 by Anna Filed Under: Projects, Videos

We have finished our Japanese-inspired DIY 2-Story Shed! We hope you enjoy the
video!! 🙂


OTHER RELATED POSTS:

Our first Japanese Maples Welcome & Sneak Peak!! Stomped Ceiling Texture
Removal: The Video! Kitchen Reveal New House, New Videos!



NEW HOUSE, NEW VIDEOS!

January 29, 2023 by Anna Filed Under: About

Hey Everyone!

We’re so excited that you found our site!! We wanted to let you know that we’ve
started making YouTube Videos again! We hope to see you there! We’re working on
gardening, landscaping, and modern builds! We’ll be reviewing some of our older
projects like a modern planter bed & modern primary bathroom renovation, as well
as new projects!

We can’t wait to see you there! Please leave a comment and say hello on our
YouTube Channel! Thanks!

Building Modern on Youtube!




OTHER RELATED POSTS:

Welcome & Sneak Peak!! Modern Atlanta Home Tour 2014: Custer House Introduction
to the House Stomped Ceiling Texture Removal: The Video! It turns out, we’re
busy!



STOREFRONT WINDOWSILL REPAIR

August 15, 2020 by Anna Filed Under: Outside, Weekend Projects, Woodworking and
Flooring

The front of our house has a rather unique feature: the foyer is a 12 ft. tall
floor to ceiling cedar beam and glass wall. The glass had water penetration
issues between the panes (the seals had broken) and were foggy and needed to be
replaced. We scheduled a company to come and replace the glass, but first we
needed to address some rotted areas at the bottom sill.



We had already dug out the rotted wood just to see how bad the damage was. (I
had stained to area just to protect it in the meantime). All of the vertical
beams and the bottom sill are pieces of wood that go beyond the glass and
continue into the interior of the home.



We had the glass guys scheduled for the next day, so the project needed to be
finished by the next morning. Spencer started removing the old sill with the
multi-tool.







Slowly whittling away at the area to get an idea of what we were dealing with:





The very bottom of the cedar beams were starting to be compromised.





A better looks at the undersides of the discarded material:



When you can’t find your chisels, get creative with a paint 5-in-1 tool!



Some off the nails we pulled out: pretty corroded by water:



The rot getting close to the glass unfortunately.



Even though they look like they are floating in mid-air, the beams are still
supported on the other side of the glass.



Down to good wood directly under the glass. The plan is to simply replace the
old rotten portion of the sill. This would have been a bit complicated for a
full replacement: the entire interior portion of the sill is structural: the
vertical beams sit on it on the inside of the house. I don’t believe the portion
that we removed was structural as it was dangling in the air at the very edge of
the wall. Our best bet is to keep the good portions and add a new exterior sill
that will be properly pitched to shed water… that and a lot of caulk.



Since the glass is still in the way and these are not traditional operable
windows, we couldn’t nail from above. (There was nothing to nail into.) It may
not be the proper solution, but it is a work-around: we used a Kreg jig to mend
the two pieces together.



Izumi is a good construction kitty.



We cut the new pressure treated board at the proper angle to shed water,
supported the board with shims and glued & screwed it to the old cedar.



Adding additional wood glue:



We then added exterior caulk to the seam and screw holes:



We will address the bottoms of the vertical posts at a later date… the next day
was new glass installation!



I am not an expert and I am not saying that this is the perfect way to mend a
rotted sill for a storefront window, but it is probably the best we could do
given the situation. I am also definitely not a fan of relying on caulk as the
only water barrier either. (However, this is how the entire window system is
made to begin with: just framing, caulk, and glass). At least this is an area of
the home that is easily accessible and we can keep an eye on the caulk to make
sure it isn’t failing.

Short of removing the entire assembly and having to somehow support the roof –
this is an exterior wall – I am not sure what else we could have done. Looking
forward to the new glass and being able to finally see out of these giant
windows!


OTHER RELATED POSTS:

Staining our front stair railings Carpenter bee trap Installing baseboards, cove
moulding, & caulking Repairing a broken porch roof joist Replacing our front
porch light



THE KITCHEN FLOOR IS NOT LEVEL

August 11, 2020 by Anna Filed Under: Kitchen, Woodworking and Flooring

Prior to purchasing our house, we could easily see with the naked eye that the
floor in the foyer was not level…this was also the case for the area near/inside
the pantry in the kitchen. In the foyer, the floor sloped down to the right
toward the master bedroom wall. In the kitchen, it sloped down toward the foyer
wall.



The slope in the floor over by the pantry – the level’s bubble maxed out to one
side is probably not a good thing.


After we demolished the kitchen floor, we discovered that the area toward the
center of the room was also not level. In this instance, the floor was not
sloping or sagging… it was bowed up in the center.


A high spot in the floor is a real problem: low joists you can jack up, but with
high joists… there’s not much you can do. 

We briefly looked into self-leveling-products, but quickly dismissed the
idea. First off, we couldn’t find any information online about using a
self-leveling-cement on a plywood subfloor. Every resource online was referring
to leveling a concrete floor.

Here were our concerns:
•We were pretty sure that the product would seep into cracks and flow down into
the basement without some sort of lining.
•We were also unsure about the added weight.
•We needed to be able to nail down real hardwood flooring, which you can’t do
with concrete.
•We needed to maintain the current floor elevation to match up with the oak
floor in the adjoining rooms.

 

So, self leveling cement was out. What did we decide to do? Hide the problem
with the kitchen island.

Yep. The “easy” way out – our solution was to do nothing. The bow in the center
of the room was contained to the exact area we were thinking of placing our
island. Boom. Done. (Well, not quite, we knew we needed to address the sloping
floor on the other side of the kitchen and in the foyer, but that’s a project
for another day.)


OTHER RELATED POSTS:

How to fix a high spot in the subfloor Hardwood floor installation for the
kitchen & foyer Kitchen Demo: Floor Foyer floor demo Master Bedroom: Jacking up
some floor joists

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