Jim O'Dell
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Congrats Indy fans! Couldn't have happened for a nicer coach.
How I spent my weekend....hmmm....I've got sore muscles, and I'm bruised in some spaces. I must have spent time in the shop working on the walls!
I did a little a couple more week nights leading up to the weekend working on the slatwall. Got the west wall done Thursday eve. (These pics are of the west wall.) LOML had other plans for me Friday eve, so I spent time in the house with her and tending the fire so she could get warm. She was gone all day Sat, so that meant my time in the shop was interrupted a lot taking care of the dogs. We are working 3 shifts with one rescue that fights with our 2 younger girls, (it's a mutual dislike) and our youngest girl in season so the boys have to be kept separated. Everyone needs time out, so I get interrupted a lot. But I still got to spend about 7 hours in the shop. I got the remainder of the lower half of the shop walls covered in OSB, finishing the last piece this morning. (Pic 1 is the north wall, cyclone in center, leak is in the far corner on the right) (Pic 2 is a closer view to that corner) (And Pic 3 is the east wall, sheet storage in the far right corner) Then I went to work on the light reflectors for the 3 remaining flouescent lights I need to purchase. Ran out of supplies to finish them up, and didn't feel like going into town to get what I needed. I need some screws and wood to make the end caps on the reflectors, which are basically barrel vaulted and recessed up into the ceiling joists. I cut the 4X8 sheets of Glassliner (I think I'm remembering that correctly).
The other thing that took the most time was also in the ceiling. As I have stated before, I have low shop ceilings (7' 8" in the main body, and less than that for a 4' deep section across the north wall where the cyclone is, and my future work bench will be, where the slab is raised about an inch and a half (was a storage area originally when it was carport). Anyway, doesn't make storing 4X8 sheet goods very easy. I don't have enough space to store them horizontally, so they need to be vertical. I have a good spot just inside the double wide doors on the south wall, and I purposly didn't put a window on that wall for this reason. I bumped the ceiling up about 4 1/2" in this area, and made it about 9' long. I'll be able to get sheet goods in the door, stand up there, and slide over to the holding area. I could probably store about 15 sheets of 3/4" stuff, but doubt that I'll ever have that much at any given time.
I need to get the light endcaps done this week in the evenings, then next week get some more of the ceiling vapor barrier installed, and start cutting OSB to fit and installing (oh JOY ).
Thanks for wading through my ramblings. Time for bed. 5:30 comes awfully early tomorrow!..Jim.
How I spent my weekend....hmmm....I've got sore muscles, and I'm bruised in some spaces. I must have spent time in the shop working on the walls!
I did a little a couple more week nights leading up to the weekend working on the slatwall. Got the west wall done Thursday eve. (These pics are of the west wall.) LOML had other plans for me Friday eve, so I spent time in the house with her and tending the fire so she could get warm. She was gone all day Sat, so that meant my time in the shop was interrupted a lot taking care of the dogs. We are working 3 shifts with one rescue that fights with our 2 younger girls, (it's a mutual dislike) and our youngest girl in season so the boys have to be kept separated. Everyone needs time out, so I get interrupted a lot. But I still got to spend about 7 hours in the shop. I got the remainder of the lower half of the shop walls covered in OSB, finishing the last piece this morning. (Pic 1 is the north wall, cyclone in center, leak is in the far corner on the right) (Pic 2 is a closer view to that corner) (And Pic 3 is the east wall, sheet storage in the far right corner) Then I went to work on the light reflectors for the 3 remaining flouescent lights I need to purchase. Ran out of supplies to finish them up, and didn't feel like going into town to get what I needed. I need some screws and wood to make the end caps on the reflectors, which are basically barrel vaulted and recessed up into the ceiling joists. I cut the 4X8 sheets of Glassliner (I think I'm remembering that correctly).
The other thing that took the most time was also in the ceiling. As I have stated before, I have low shop ceilings (7' 8" in the main body, and less than that for a 4' deep section across the north wall where the cyclone is, and my future work bench will be, where the slab is raised about an inch and a half (was a storage area originally when it was carport). Anyway, doesn't make storing 4X8 sheet goods very easy. I don't have enough space to store them horizontally, so they need to be vertical. I have a good spot just inside the double wide doors on the south wall, and I purposly didn't put a window on that wall for this reason. I bumped the ceiling up about 4 1/2" in this area, and made it about 9' long. I'll be able to get sheet goods in the door, stand up there, and slide over to the holding area. I could probably store about 15 sheets of 3/4" stuff, but doubt that I'll ever have that much at any given time.
I need to get the light endcaps done this week in the evenings, then next week get some more of the ceiling vapor barrier installed, and start cutting OSB to fit and installing (oh JOY ).
Thanks for wading through my ramblings. Time for bed. 5:30 comes awfully early tomorrow!..Jim.