Weekend working on the workshop

[derekl_1963]

*Whew*, it's Tuesday and I'm still one tired puppy... But we got 'er done. About 90% of the major construction (hanging the ceiling and walls) is done out in the workshop and I can move ahead on taping/mudding and painting.

Huge thanks go out to Joel (abrahe ), Ralph (hrollaug ), Eric (fugazi2112 ), and Matt (hl_mateusz ) for coming out and helping over the weekend with this massive project.





Here's Joel 'supervising' as we get started. (Actually Joel was really helpful. He, along with Ralph came over earlier in the week and helped with final preps. He also operated the drywall jack all day Saturday.)



Matt, trimming one of the drywall ceiling panels, while Ralph and Eric look on.



Matt measures for the cut out for the circuit breaker box.



Matt and Ralph making a cutout in one of the wall panels.



When thing are going on in my shop, I'm the one taking photographs... so it looks like I'm doing none of the work. :0 Here I am driving one the hundreds of screws I drove into drywall and OSB over the course of the weekend.



In one of my previous shop picture series, there were complaints that the place was too clean - no sawdust! For y'all here is just a fraction of the drywall and OSB dust we created over the weekend.



Here's a picture of the south side nearly completed. I've got to pick up some expanding foam to seal a gap over the door frame, and then I can fit the missing panel into place. The big screwup was ordering 8" OSB to cover walls that were 8"4' tall! So I've got to cut a *ton* of trim pieces to close the gaps.



This how the south side looked before we started - no insulation, no walls, no ceiling. When all is said and done, a vast improvement.

The general idea is to finish out the work on the south side, then move what's currently stored on the north side to the south and then finish the north.



Comments

[abrahe.livejournal.com]

I only eat one donut, three hours after we started, and what does he do? He grabs the camera! Sheesh. : )

It looks great. I'm glad I was able to help out.

[hrollaug.livejournal.com]

Just realised that I think I left my 4ft cutting guide-bar behind

If so and you are coming tonight, please bring it

[derekl1963.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's out there. It got put between the workbench and the shelving, so it got missed when we loaded you out and when I was cleaning yesterday.

[tradarcher.livejournal.com]

If I known about this, I would have come and help.
Knut

[derekl1963.livejournal.com]

Still quite a bit to be done, when are you available? :) :)

[susanarendsee.livejournal.com]

Cool. Quite the project Derek. You'll have a really nice shop when it is done. I enjoyed the pictures. Nice to see you, Matt and Hroug. Looks similar to my house and our unfinished 1,000
square foot addition and 2 car garage we started 2 1/2 years ago. Ours is a work in progress that keeps going and going:)) Our hope is to have it completed in 5 years.