{"id":30,"date":"2006-11-15T08:49:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-14T23:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/?p=30"},"modified":"2006-11-15T08:49:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-14T23:49:00","slug":"built-lofts-into-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/2006\/11\/built-lofts-into-workshop.html","title":{"rendered":"Built Lofts into the workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Well, I started thinking about all of the work I was going to have to do standing on the tops of ladders with my arms up pinning insulation to the wall and ceiling, and I decided to put in the short second floor I’d been thinking about for a while.<\/p>\n

On the north end of the building over the wheel area, the loft will be used as a tea room, display area, customer reception, and ‘hide from my wife when she’s angry’ space. The south end loft for storage.<\/p>\n

As you can see from the picture I put a 5×5 beam across the span under the big beam, and another 3×5 screwed to the north wall, then laid my cedar planks across the two. The planks weren’t strong enough to stand on without spreading the weight around so while I worked I laid another plank across them to stand on. Since I’m planning to lay down tatami in the tea space anyway, I decided to lay down some 3\/8 in plywood, which I screwed down to the planks, and which really stiffened things up. I can walk around now and don’t feel like the thing’s going to collapse on me. However, I wouldn’t trust it to 3 or more people. So, though I wanted to avoid it, I’m trying to figure out what would be rigid enough to span the 4 meter space across the center of the loft without needing a post from the floor or from the roof beam, either of which would get in the way upstairs or down.<\/p>\n

The wooden 5×5 wasn’t rigid enough in my opinion (thus the hanging support from the beam, which I have added to the south loft beam as well since taking the pictures), so I’m thinking about a couple of galvanized metal 2x4s (‘c’ cross section) screwed together and oriented vertically to span the width midway between the beam and the wall.<\/p>\n

At any rate, the interior feel of the building has really changed with the lofts installed. More ‘cozy’ now than before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, I started thinking about all of the work I was going to have to do standing on the tops of ladders with my arms up pinning insulation to the wall and ceiling, and I decided to put in the short second floor I’d been thinking about for a while. On the north end of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1FneS-u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}