Rooms are not Square
Take a look around you. I’ll bet the room you’re sitting in is a big box, right? But is it really?
I’ve discovered that rooms that look like they are pretty simplified, really aren’t. Just take another look at the room you’re in. Big box. But there are probably doors and windows, maybe a closet. Then think about the light fixtures, switches, and outlets. Where does all of that crap go? The big box just got a lot more complicated. Then look real close at the door. Does the floor go under the wall joists or up to it? Is that closet built in? And were these walls ever plumb?
I watched my bathroom get a new floor over thanksgiving. And I was pretty thankful that I wasn’t the one jacking around with a hammer and chisel trying to get a piece of OSB to fit into a whole that looked square, but really wasn’t. And if you want something really exciting take a peek at your bathroom and count the number of weird little spots that need holes drilled or cut in the floor and/or wall.
If you’re bored some time and want an exercise in frustration decide to pull up a big chunk of floor in your house. Choose that room that looks the most like a box and have go at it, I say. Then pull out the walls, ’cause the floor goes under them and won’t come out any other way, and then get ready to do some rewiring since you accidentally pulled off some junction box you didn’t know was there and still can’t explain. Oh yeah, home improvement is lots of little surprises.
Tune in tomorrow when we talk about the joys of the season.
