Need a contractor who can work in a room that isn't always there
So we have a third bedroom. Mostly. It's there about 80% of the time, present and fully functional, normal room. The other 20% it's just a wall where the door should be. The cycle isn't predictable. Sometimes it's gone for an hour, sometimes most of a day. We knew about it when we bought the place (reflected in the price) and honestly it's fine for storage, we just don't put anything in there we need daily access to. Problem: we want to install shelving. Is there a contractor in the Krevmire area who does intermittent spaces? I called two general contractors and one laughed and one asked if the room was "consensually intermittent or externally imposed" and I didn't know the answer so the conversation kind of stalled.
I've done shelving in intermittent rooms. Main issue is fasteners. You need anchors rated for spatial discontinuity or they'll shear when the room transitions. Standard drywall anchors are fine for the wall itself but the STUDS may or may not be present during a transition, and that's where your weight capacity comes from. DM me the room's approximate cycle and I can give you a quote. Also, "consensually intermittent" means the room chooses to be there. "Externally imposed" means something else is causing it. Matters a lot for permitting.
How do I find out which one it is?
Does the room seem to leave in response to anything? Loud noises, specific weather, time of day? If it's random with no triggers, it's probably consensual. If it correlates with anything, external. For shelving it doesn't matter much. For permitting it matters a LOT.
I've been tracking it for two days. No pattern I can see. It left once while I was standing in it, which was a new experience. One second I'm measuring wall space, next second I'm standing in the hallway facing a flat wall with a tape measure extended into drywall. The tape measure was fine, by the way. It was just pressed against the wall. The room took nothing with it that wasn't part of the room.
That's good news, actually. The fact that it transitioned while you were inside and cleanly deposited you in the hallway means it has a standard occupancy-aware transition protocol. The cheap intermittent rooms just vanish and you end up inside the wall. Those require a very different contractor and usually a rescue services call first. I'll DM you about scheduling. Fair warning: I'll need at least a three-hour window where the room is present, and we may need more than one visit if it decides to leave mid-install. I charge by the hour, not by the room's mood.