So the Fall was beautiful and we took hundreds of pictures of the project. Our framer, Armando, )yes, that's his name) really started putting up lots of new lumber for the framing. We also spent a great deal of time preserving the internal framing. You see, original wood was "actual" with respect to size. Thus a 2x4 was a real 2x4 and our 2x10s were REAL 2x10s and they ran throughout the structure in 20 foot lengths creating the floor for our second story.
You can see the joists in the picture to the right with the original pine bark. Those joists are still there within the floors. In the picture above you can see the additional 2x10s that were put into place to pass inspection and give us a load bearing capability far in excess of the 3000lbs per square inch needed.
The inspectors wanted us to rip them out because you can't span 20ft with 2x10s anymore due to code. So we re-hired the engineer and got him to approve a plan wherein we were able to preserve the original 2x10s by shoring them up with additional 2x10s which are "nominal" meaning they're not quite 2x10s. (We ran into this issue throughout with "nominal" new lumber alongside "actual" lumber.)
Long story short, the new second story joists are original and shored up with new lumber. What a pain in the ass!!
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