All righty, someone asked for an update, so here it is
been working on the place a bunch, so you get a rather disjointed update with gaps and such
got the other side of the roof steel on, that side I just did all myself because when I had help I felt rushed so we did a shitty job
Put in a class A flue for a stove in the upstairs of the house, found a real nice secondary combustion fireplace insert on craigslist for free, just had to break the speed limit to run over and pick it up before anyone else did. Managed to install the flue pressed up tight against a roof rafter, didn't think anything of it at the time, but first time I fired it I wriggled up into the attic to feel the outside of the flue and it was hotter than I wanted, so I had to noodle my way in there with the sawzall and cut a bunch out, got an inch of clearance out of the roof decking (ancient shiplap boards underneath more recent 1/2" osb) and packed the gap with fiberglass then covered it over with sheetmetal, made a sheetmetal shield for the rafter after cutting a section out of the roof rafter then sistering on a second 2x4 to get the clearance needed. This place is framed so badly that that kind of fuckery is the least of my concerns. Didn't even pinch my blade as I cut it out, so the roof didn't even move, oddly.
Did a bunch of sheetrock, got half of a room finished out, the roof was a 9' or thereabouts span of 2x4 rafter, unsupported right there above the cot, so I tossed in a 2x8, a 2x6 and a 2x4 together as a beam (they matched the pitch of the roof when screwed together)
did 1/2" sheetrock on the vertical walls and 5/8 on the cieling, actually scored enough 5/8" from a dumpster to do the whole painted 45 degree wall there, the unpainted wall was all salvaged drywall from the "garage converted into living space" that I turned back into a garage (another pic on that later)
I kinda hate wiring inside walls with a passion, it provides holes in the studs for mice to transit and is also relatively unserviceable, so I just do EMT and make it external. Fan doesn't have a box in the cieling, just screwed it to a rafter and I'm using the escutcheon as the box (once it is assembled, pretty sure it is going to get new bearings as dumping 20w50 into the noisy ones in it made it not spin any more)
Floor was a single layer of 3/4 tongue and groove, I cut a slot in the drywall to fit the new sheets of drywall up the stairs, then hung the drywall before even thinking about getting a proper subfloor in there. I had a bunch of 12" shiplap boards from the barn that fell down, was gonna sell them to idiot hipsters but just used them as the second layer of subfloor instead because they fit up the stairs. Fuckin hate how it looks, might run a floor sander over it, might just toss ceramic tile over it.
only 5 pics per post, so stand by for the next one