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Yea drywalling definitely takes awhile so your doing good and fiberglass insulation is the best part 

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Just a quick update while a take a bit of a break.  I'm still in the shop and am going to keep working until I can't go anymore today, it's about 8:45ish right now.

 

I got the brushes on the roll-up doors this morning, but didn't manage to get a picture of that.  I'll get it when I do the recap video once I finish up tonight.  I also decided to go ahead and drywall all the way up that section of West facing wall and went ahead and taped/bedded it:

 

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Did I mention that I'm terrible at drywall?  I didn't mess with sanding anything, don't care! I left the mud to dry while I took down the electrical conduit runs on the south facing side.  The rest of the boxes were as bad as the 1st one I pulled.  Way too much insulation stripped and nicked wires etc.  Then I did some more stud walling and pulled insulation on the East side of the building:

 

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here's the stud wall section and the insulation work:

 

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I'll run it all the way up like I did on the West wall, just haven't gotten up yet.  Next was paint for the new wall:

 

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You can really see how bad my drywall foo is in this pic.

 

So I had a Harbor Freight electric spray gun I got as a gift a few years ago and figured I would use it to shoot paint in the shop build.  I spent at least 30 minutes following the instruction and cleaning it with warm soapy water etc etc, thinning the paint and using the drip cup to make sure it was the right thickness.  Everything seemed to be going great until I got paint in it.  About the first 3 or four passes were fine, then it started dribbling more paint than it was spraying, then it made a horrible noise and locked up.

 

So I just used the paint roller on a stick I used for the floors.  That was actually WAY faster than dicking with the gun.

 

Took a break to go pick up another pallet of the insulation I'm putting on the ceiling and make some dinner:

 

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With the paint dry, I slammed together some of the pallet racking and then got those pallets off the top of the collector room:

 

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The A/C guy came by and checked out what I had run and built out for the A/C install and seemed happy with everything.  He said he would order the unit today and let me know when he's ready to get it installed.

 

I'm going to finish cramming food in my mouth-hole and get back at it!

 

I'll post a vid later tonight.

 

Peace!

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I ran out of steam before I got much more done.  Just a little more insulation and stud walling.  Here is the recap video:

 

 

I will get over here early-ish again in the morning and keep plugging away at it.

 

Hope everyone is having a great weekend!!!

 

 

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46 minutes ago, Arthur79 said:

I ran out of steam before I got much more done.  Just a little more insulation and stud walling.  Here is the recap video:

 

 

I will get over here early-ish again in the morning and keep plugging away at it.

 

Hope everyone is having a great weekend!!!

 

 

Progress looks great! Keep it up! 

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3 hours ago, Arthur79 said:

Just a quick update while a take a bit of a break.  I'm still in the shop and am going to keep working until I can't go anymore today, it's about 8:45ish right now.

 

I got the brushes on the roll-up doors this morning, but didn't manage to get a picture of that.  I'll get it when I do the recap video once I finish up tonight.  I also decided to go ahead and drywall all the way up that section of West facing wall and went ahead and taped/bedded it:

 

20210918_131737.thumb.jpg.34dba251a7c25adce5305c93ffa6cb58.jpg

 

Did I mention that I'm terrible at drywall?  I didn't mess with sanding anything, don't care! I left the mud to dry while I took down the electrical conduit runs on the south facing side.  The rest of the boxes were as bad as the 1st one I pulled.  Way too much insulation stripped and nicked wires etc.  Then I did some more stud walling and pulled insulation on the East side of the building:

 

20210918_141826.thumb.jpg.955f9028a5fa118b7e4a9041e74f5901.jpg

 

20210918_141837.thumb.jpg.555306ddd1cc2803168e4e24b9eb479e.jpg

 

here's the stud wall section and the insulation work:

 

20210918_203918.thumb.jpg.bd518df818548f1cfa418c5c94b70f5b.jpg

 

I'll run it all the way up like I did on the West wall, just haven't gotten up yet.  Next was paint for the new wall:

 

20210918_163250.thumb.jpg.7e433997490640b33274b5f33a1d106a.jpg

 

You can really see how bad my drywall foo is in this pic.

 

So I had a Harbor Freight electric spray gun I got as a gift a few years ago and figured I would use it to shoot paint in the shop build.  I spent at least 30 minutes following the instruction and cleaning it with warm soapy water etc etc, thinning the paint and using the drip cup to make sure it was the right thickness.  Everything seemed to be going great until I got paint in it.  About the first 3 or four passes were fine, then it started dribbling more paint than it was spraying, then it made a horrible noise and locked up.

 

So I just used the paint roller on a stick I used for the floors.  That was actually WAY faster than dicking with the gun.

 

Took a break to go pick up another pallet of the insulation I'm putting on the ceiling and make some dinner:

 

20210918_203908.thumb.jpg.262559b6a76721c92be281dd85171e7c.jpg

 

With the paint dry, I slammed together some of the pallet racking and then got those pallets off the top of the collector room:

 

20210918_203903.thumb.jpg.85b4c0c88b67565a7c43b9bbfb9d9e53.jpg

 

The A/C guy came by and checked out what I had run and built out for the A/C install and seemed happy with everything.  He said he would order the unit today and let me know when he's ready to get it installed.

 

I'm going to finish cramming food in my mouth-hole and get back at it!

 

I'll post a vid later tonight.

 

Peace!

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So I got a strong start to the day.  Was over at the old shop loading stuff up before 9AM.  Here is the practical implementation of the proverbial 20lbs of $hit in a 10lb bag:

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Then life did that thing it always does and up and happened.  I had to go grab the trailer and take it to a buddy and help him load his Harley and some other stuff on it.

 

Just got to the shop, about to unload the truck and get the office space more or less set up to make it easier to do day job out of for the upcoming week.

 

I'll post some more later today, but I have a strong feeling not a lot of exciting stuff is going to get done.  I may have to help my buddy some more this afternoon.

 

 

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Didn't end up getting much done today.  I was able to get the office sort of set up so it will be easier to work  my day job during the week but that's about it.  I did end up having to help my buddy some more in the afternoon.

 

Here are a couple of shots of the office setup...

 

This is my day-job setup

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And here's the workstation I do most of the shop stuff on:

 

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And the view from the very corner of the office:

 

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I'll probably change things up a bit and I'm not sure if I like that ultra-wide monitor on the shop workstation or not, I'll have to start using it some and see.  I may change it up, but there will be plenty of time for that once the build is done and the shop is up and running.

 

I think I might have tweaked my right shoulder/back helping my buddy today - hopefully a decent night's sleep will sort everything out.

 

 

 

 

 

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4 hours ago, Arthur79 said:

Didn't end up getting much done today.  I was able to get the office sort of set up so it will be easier to work  my day job during the week but that's about it.  I did end up having to help my buddy some more in the afternoon.

 

Here are a couple of shots of the office setup...

 

This is my day-job setup

20210919_143115.thumb.jpg.55b05b9196ccb446715e1eb1c58e4eb1.jpg

 

And here's the workstation I do most of the shop stuff on:

 

20210919_180614.thumb.jpg.37ebd4499b7c6195eb73d43d322bd0bd.jpg

 

And the view from the very corner of the office:

 

20210919_180622.thumb.jpg.84ffa6ccb49cfe6b4a6b61425989d472.jpg

 

I'll probably change things up a bit and I'm not sure if I like that ultra-wide monitor on the shop workstation or not, I'll have to start using it some and see.  I may change it up, but there will be plenty of time for that once the build is done and the shop is up and running.

 

I think I might have tweaked my right shoulder/back helping my buddy today - hopefully a decent night's sleep will sort everything out.

 

 

 

 

 

Back pain in the worst! I have it all the time. Hopefully some rest will do you good. 

 

Enough rest! Get back to it! 🤣

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7 hours ago, Dafaseles said:

Back pain in the worst! I have it all the time. Hopefully some rest will do you good. 

 

Enough rest! Get back to it! 🤣

 

It's feeling a lot better this morning!  I checked the forecast today and it's supposed to get up to 101 today so not sure if I will be getting too much done in the shop.  Plus my arse of a cat didn't come home last night so I kind of want to stick around the house through the day and see if he shows up.  Good news is, there is a cold front coming in and it's supposed to be a high in the 80s tomorrow and on into the rest of the week - perfect weather to make some of that sweat equity investment!

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Today was a decidedly more productive day.  I was able to get the main stud wall run all the way down the south wall along with the little lip on the west wall in:

 

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I was trying to get some drywall in before calling it a night, but that was a no-go as need to finish roughing in the electrical on that wall.  I did get a fair amount of that done and will try to finish that up and get going on the drywall tomorrow.  Here is the recap video for the day:

 

 

 

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