He has a 2 story house and he wants to punch a hole in the wall upstairs to have a sliding board come down into his living room for his grandkids to slide on. What should I say to grandpa? If he puts it in there I want to slide too. I guess on the postive side he would not have to worry about them falling down the stairs.
2006-09-16 14:04:34 · 18 answers · asked by happydawg 6 in Home & Garden ➔ Do It Yourself (DIY)
As long as he knows what he is doing sounds great. I may see about doing it my house. LOL
2006-09-16 19:58:18 · answer #1 · answered by wowwhatwasthat 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it is reasonable. You can do anything contrary to what some on here are telling you. You can put a slide in without removing any studs or floor joists. Little kids can fit right between wall studs place 16 inches on center and the same for floor joists. Once the kids are done with it just patch the floor and walls and none will be the wiser. However the kids can still fall down the stairs since they will have to walk up them to get to the top of the slide.Plus you would be well advised to put a guard around the hole so that no one accidentally falls.
2006-09-16 17:10:03 · answer #2 · answered by windyy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like he needs a hole through the floor as well.
Anything is possible regarding an installation like that.
The studs are probably 16" apart (center-to-center), so he'd probably have to put in a "header" to span the cut-in space and support the upper part of the shortened stud.
Same thing with the floor, if going through the floor is required.
Basically, it would be much the same as remodeling and adding a door or window, but with a slide engineered to go through the openings.
Find a book on home remodeling/repair and then engineer the project, maybe getting some advice from someone as well.
Don't let anyone tell you you can't do anything, either.
2006-09-16 14:18:13 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with the other answers about getting a builder in to do the job for you as you seem quite unsure about what you are doing. I am not a builder (just a keen DIYer who will have a go at most things), but I know a load-bearing wall when I see one and it really is not worth attempting this yourself if you dont know what you are doing and you do not have the correct tools for the job. You could cause severe damage to your property of which you would not be insured for and would ultimately have to spend a lot to put right. Saying that, it sounds like you want to put some kind of serving hatch through from the kitchen to the dining room and this would be a reasonably straight forward job for a builder and should take around two to three days to complete - so it would not be massively expensive. Get a few builders in to get some quotes - listen to what they say and then decide the way forward!
2016-03-27 04:35:49 · answer #4 · answered by Olga 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would just buy them a slide for the outdoors. They'll get bored with that slide after a while (when they grow up), and then he'll just have a hole in the wall.. On the other hand though - that will make for some great memories, and family stories.
2006-09-16 14:07:29 · answer #5 · answered by Jada C 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Careful some walls are what you call loud bearing walls . These walls hold the weight of the second floor.And your second floor walls can be holding the weight of your roof . If you go and just bust a hole throw the wall , you will wind up compromising the structural integrity of your wall, leading to structural failure and co lapse.Tell your boyfriend to pay close attention to the wood framing in his wall, and to re-work the framing correctly. And can i please suggest installing a slide rail so your kids don't go flying off good luck
2006-09-16 14:32:00 · answer #6 · answered by Yahoo Anwers 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Setting aside the number of building codes this would violate; unless your boyfriend is a qualified engineer with accurate structural and electrical schematics of the home (surprisingly, many schematics of homes are massively inaccurate) he is very likely to construct something that is wildly unsafe and unsound. Furthermore, he will probably destroy vital wiring and plumbing in the first steps of this process; this will eventually require extensive and costly contractor work to mend.
So yeah, you should probably keep him away from those power tools for a while. On the upside, many home improvement stores sell a variety of perfectly serviceable outdoor slides.
2006-09-16 14:09:59 · answer #7 · answered by Argon 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's a little ridiculous. As someone stated, just get them an outside slide. They can trip down stairs and they can also hurt themselves on a slide. It's not impossible. Maybe even, more probable.
2006-09-16 14:13:13 · answer #8 · answered by Empress 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it is his home there is naught you can say. I would check to make sure that any changes he wants to make leave the building structurally sound, that is no damage to load bearing walls. Otherwise the building may fall down. Any ramp, even in a private home, must be up to code and include safety features. I would check whether he is mentally sound.
2006-09-16 14:23:17 · answer #9 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its amazing how people talk about "knocking down" walls and "bumping out rooms" so casually without realizing that it is a massive assignment.
2006-09-16 14:18:16 · answer #10 · answered by Joe K 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He is out of his mind.. He goes to ALL that expense to tear out and install a board and in two years the kids will be tired of it.. or perhaps less than two years and then the expense of putting it back to the way it was... UGGHHH!!!!
2006-09-16 14:58:11 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋