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Restructuring the First Floor

Charlie Tomaszewski uses a Craftsman palm nailer while installing the final joist hanger. This now completes the restructuring of the of the kitchen/family room section of the first floor. The small rooms with nooks and crannies and a rabbit warren of interior walls supporting the upstairs have been replaced with a 35-foot wide open span with strategically positioned structural lumber - LVLs - supporting the upstairs.

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Restructuring the First Floor

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" And this'll be the last of the joist hangers. And there's nothing like. A little palm driver a little palm nailer like that it. Make short work. Nice job Charlie so now what we've got is pretty much a completed new restructuring of this whole area of the house who said goodbye to the nineteenth century plan here where you had little rooms and little nooks and crannies and walls supporting the upstairs and recreated the entire structure so that it's kind of free and we've got what is basically a whole. 35 foot span of the house wide open you can follow it in terms of wherever you see new LVLs. New structural lumber. This triple one here. They're used to be a wall carrying the upstairs in this location and then the big eighteen inch one that's over here which is carrying the outside wall of the house."

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