Last weekend I began working on ane to a greater extent than projection for the principal sleeping room -some beams on the ceiling. After some consideration, too looking for options on how to install them, I ended upwards amongst ii alternatives:
- Doing it the slow way, using the joists that were already inward place, but non inward the places I wanted, or
- Going the hard way, installing extra supports, too then it would hold back proportional.
I decided to become for the latter one. Yes, to achieved the agency that it would hold back the best, in that location was a lot to a greater extent than survive involved.
Up there..... I had to become to the attic!
I went upwards in that location pretty happy, after all, I was exactly starting this project! I needed to attach nine 2x4 supports that would allow me to to suspend the ceiling beams underneath in the room.
No big deal, driving some screws too installing the beams. Well, it took me similar ii hours, paying attending where to step, working exactly about insulation, non that much light, too the angles on the ceiling made things difficult.
Until I got there! Yes, correct there, where things got worse! I needed to screw my final support, but I was stuck inward there, I tried to campaign inward the screw but I was tired, at a bad angle too stuck! Actually, I couldn't deed inward there!
The forest in that location was actually HARD....I but couldn't campaign the screws in. I called my DH for help, he came taking pictures too bespeak me to hold back at the photographic idiot box camera :) but I exactly couldn't move! He had to aid me survive out of in that location too campaign the screws inward for me.
Sometimes things that hold back easy, similar driving a screw, tin larn too then complicated. Many times that's the illustration for me, specially long screws! I'm NOT that STRONG! I get got weak arms. I tried to follow close of the things the "pros" recommend for driving screws, similar using a self centering bit, non using a worn bit, using a clutch or lining the screw upwards too force hard, but that's my problem, equally I approximate for many of you, nosotros don't get got that human being power, equally elementary equally that!
That's why I elbow grease to e'er produce pre-drills, it takes a petty longer at the initiative of all but salvage us a lot of hassle later on on.
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 novel tip my hubby gave me (he said he read it somewhere?), is to rub your screws on a bar of soap, ane time y'all campaign them into the forest they become agency easier! That would've been what I needed upwards in that location inward the attic, where I didn't get got pre-drilled holes.
That's what we're doing spell nosotros complete installing those beams!
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