After a surprisingly busy fall for both Jon and I, we are back to working on the new bathroom. We went through the official permitting process with the city. This was a little scary at first since it looked like we might have to do some major work to the house to get the upstairs classified as a livable space. However, we luckily were able to get the upstairs grandfathered in as livable space since it had obviously been used as such for many years. This means we do not have to redo the stairway up to the second floor (plus various other things).
Since we are installing a new bath, we do have some modifications to make. The biggest one of these is adding structural support. We got a wonderful architect to help design the bathroom, do our drawings for the permitting process and to design the new structural support. His name is Jacob Chavez (jchavezdesign@gmail.com). Jacob was great to work with and has become one of our new friends here in Portland.
Because of the new footings for the new support beams, Jon and I recently had to reroute the main sewer pipe. We did a lot of pre-work and the rerouting actually went very smoothly. I highly recommend getting a orbital Sawzall with a metal cutting blade encrusted with diamonds (Blade - $15 at Homey D) for this type of work. It cuts through cast iron like it was butter. We also recently constructed forms for the footings and just got them officially inspected by the city yesterday. We will pour concrete and finish up the support work after the holidays. See the slide show on the recent work.
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