Not everyone gets to work on a castle, but a unique customer is building one and had special challenges on the inside.
In order to provide space for insulation and structure to hold drywall, we developed this lattice system of treated plywood strips. They hold the 2x4s off the wet concrete wall, after which foam insulation fills the cracks.
The castle ceilings were all manner of unusual problems. In order to avoid having a window tucked up into a cutout, we needed this space to have the highest ceiling possible. But we also needed to mechanically isolate the ceiling from the upper floor for soundproofing. Problem solved by constructing a truss that threads perpendicular above and below the metal floor trusses. Though they come close, the floor and ceiling structure interweave but never touch.
A castle wouldn't look right without a few barrel vaults. This vault spans 14' across the master bedroom. It had to be calculated super tight to allow the full window to fit inside the room without a cutout in the ceiling.
This small outdoor closet for shuffleboard toys was modified to contain a house for bats, complete with specialized grille for bat entry, boards with grips for bat claws, drawer for removing bat guano for fertilizer, and low-scent black coating for light control.
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