Laundry Ceiling/Door

Hello again!

Every time we travel to Casa Torrente de Agua we have things we plan to do, and things we don't plan to do wind up being part of our trip.

For this trip, one of our main goals was to get the laundry ceiling completed. We had purchased materials in the October 2009 trip, but ran out of time to complete our work.

So, fairly quickly we got working on the laundry ceiling. One of our challenges was that we thought we might have to build a small soffit to accomodate the plumbing supply. Our original intention was to put a layer of 1.5" square wood onto the metal structure, and then attach plywood to that. The we would have built a small soffit at the end over the service panel, and over the window as a soffit.



However, while actually doing it, we figured our soffit only had to be 6" by 1.5"; and decided we would just add a cross layer of 1.5x1.5 to create a 3" drop, and then we could have a flat ceiling.


We came prepared with finish washers and stainless steel screws to attach the wood. And in our prior trip had even finished the wood. We had also brought down a ceiling fixture that could hold a CF bulb.




So we spent a day installing the wood. It took a little longer than we intended as drilling so many holes, overhead, into steel was more effort than we bargained for. But as you can see, we did attach the three pieces of plywood, and installed our light.





















I had previously written how nice a job Javier Garro, our electrician, did wiring the service panel. Go ahead and double click the panel photo, then zoom in to his connections. I've never seen such work (so neat and clean). Now I have to clean up my home panel to match!!!

















One of the things we added on to our trip was finishing the laundry entry door. The window did go in during the gap between October and January. So we had our door builder come with additional teak so we could trim out around the door. So this is the finished door look.

There is one more trim piece, a section of 1/2" x 3" to cover the gap between the fibrolit wall and the door surround (currently that is flush). But we'll do that after the texture is done, and we've painted the room.









All for this post, next one will include the laundry counter top - which turned out to have the look but totally different than intended as well.


Thanks for reading!


Dick and Jim