I am thinking way too hard about whether to install the island back and side panels first and butt the flooring against them, or run the flooring up to the cabinet base and only underneath the panels.
If the flooring goes under the panels, I would probably aim to leave about a 1/8 inch gap, but nothing is ever perfect. The base is visible as you come up the stairs, so I want it to look clean. I could caulk the seam.
Butting the flooring against the panels would be easier for the flow of the project and avoids worrying about the gap or the panels settling and putting pressure on the floor later.
Have the floor go under the panels, and have the panels touch the floor. Don't overthink floor movement, its gonna move even if an elephant sits on your island -- and you'll never notice.
Don't caulk around the base of cabinets or toilets - you don't want moisture to get trapped under them - it turns into a diadaster!
Buddy did the house lift. One of the jacks jammed when lowering the house twisting the structure. In the end the contractor walked away, no blood from that stone.... Luckily it was not a total loss but it had to be gutted to fix it. Ironically, the building inspector required them to double the number of jacks and it was one of those that jammed.
After all the pain, over eight foot ceilings in the basement, the big basement windows were nice--legal egress was pretty easy to achieve. From the outside the foundation looked ass as the old blocks were those typical 1940s ones with the "fancy" outside face and the new ones were the same size but plain face...
I think things are being a little over simplified on here... You obviously just can't jack it up by the centre beam... You will need to add multiple temporary beams, either through basement windows or through cuts in the foundation or both.
In a center beam simple frame, you can jack the center beam and knock out every 5th block on the parallel walls to jack the plate/rim joist. No steel beams, no cribbing. The whole structure is about 18-20 tons. 30 strong Polaks could lift that by hand.
In the above case mentioned these were steel I beams spanning the width of the building, removed after the job. All jacks move at the same time keeping the building level and "square", well in theory. I am sure one could hillbilly it with bottle jacks but do you want to be under the building your jacking... dial 9 and 1 and wait.
Bottle jacking a small wood frame house is done in a wave from front to back, 1/2" lift at a time. Jack, replace with a place the screw jack, move the hydraulic jack -- rinse and repeat.
One more thought, building permits open a bunch of cans of worms on this, bring things touched up to new code. Plumbing is being touched, stairs, HVAC, whatever. All became one headache after another for my buddy that was doing most those parts himself.
You have all that, but in the great scheme of things, moving mechanical in an unfinished basement isn't that big of a deal.
I would probably skip the building permit part (but that's just me). It's a relatively small project and unless neighbors are prickish, I doubt anyone local cares.
MP is a p.eng, he can drop his stamp on the building department manager's forehead if need be.
Funny , my friend Doug , who just retired as head of municipal planning and the building dept of ironically, Wasaga Beach . They have two guys that are dedicated to driving around and looking at project xx . Who put up the shed that now sleeps six , who got a permit for a single car garage and decided to skip the footing inspection ( since they poured a double slab. ) . Wasaga is not east Podunk. You’ll need permits unless you want to pay large fines and get stop work orders while they tie you up for months because they can. That town is on its way to a small city , don’t F around and find out .
Funny , my friend Doug , who just retired as head of municipal planning and the building dept of ironically, Wasaga Beach . They have two guys that are dedicated to driving around and looking at project xx . Who put up the shed that now sleeps six , who got a permit for a single car garage and decided to skip the footing inspection ( since they poured a double slab. ) . Wasaga is not east Podunk. You’ll need permits unless you want to pay large fines and get stop work orders while they tie you up for months because they can. That town is on its way to a small city , don’t F around and find out .
This is my concern. A neighbour built a garage while they renovated their main house...turns out they were living in the garage while they were playing fast and loose with their house....5 years of stop work orders and things basically grinding to a halt for that time.
If you happen to speak to Doug...I'd appreciate confirmation if I need a permit to insulate / put up drywall in the basement as it's not living space, but just finished storage space. Approx 4" shy of min living space height.
I would get a permit for the washroom / electrical as that's just playing with fire. And I doubt that a variance would be granted for lower than build height.
EDIT: Reading the rules, it doesn't look like I can put up drywall in there even if it's just storage. I want to insulate it as a minimum as there's a ton of heat leaving due to the basement being wholly unfinished.
Have the floor go under the panels, and have the panels touch the floor. Don't overthink floor movement, its gonna move even if an elephant sits on your island -- and you'll never notice.
Don't caulk around the base of cabinets or toilets - you don't want moisture to get trapped under them - it turns into a diadaster!
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