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Just now, Dafaseles said:

Moving along very nicely! At this pace, when do you think it'll be done? 

It's hard to say, I need to have everything moved out of the old shop by the end of the month.  I'm hopeful that I will have the west side of the building studded and insulated and partially drywalled and *maybe* the laser room roughed in by the end of Friday.  I need to get the rest of my crap down from on top of the office in the old space so I can pull those stairs down and get them installed in the new shop, then I can start working on roughing in the spray booth.

 

I'm feeling pretty confident I can have everything out of the old space before Oct-1 but I'm not sure if I will have everything finished in the new shop by then.

 

I was looking at my day job schedule for the rest of the week and it's pretty busy but as long as I keep staying up there until 10PM every night... LoL

 

Oh, and I found my arse of a cat yesterday:

 

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The little shit managed to stow away in a neighbors shed Sunday afternoon.

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7 hours ago, Arthur79 said:

It's hard to say, I need to have everything moved out of the old shop by the end of the month.  I'm hopeful that I will have the west side of the building studded and insulated and partially drywalled and *maybe* the laser room roughed in by the end of Friday.  I need to get the rest of my crap down from on top of the office in the old space so I can pull those stairs down and get them installed in the new shop, then I can start working on roughing in the spray booth.

 

I'm feeling pretty confident I can have everything out of the old space before Oct-1 but I'm not sure if I will have everything finished in the new shop by then.

 

I was looking at my day job schedule for the rest of the week and it's pretty busy but as long as I keep staying up there until 10PM every night... LoL

 

Oh, and I found my arse of a cat yesterday:

 

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The little shit managed to stow away in a neighbors shed Sunday afternoon.

Damn cats! Lol

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There is Good and then there is Good Enough

 

Feeling a lot better with the progress I was able to make today.  I was able to finish pulling all the electrical for the south wall of the shop, the the drywall in and most of the mudding done before I ran out of mud.  Not sure what possessed me to only buy 1 small bucket to begin with...

 

Here are a few pics:

 

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You can REALLY see how bad I am at this in this pic:

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And putting a dent in the materials:
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And here is the nightly recap video:

 

 

If I can be as productive tomorrow as I was today, then I should be on track to start moving some of the bigger stuff out of the old space on maybe Sunday.  Saturday I have an appointment with my physical therapist at 8AM, should be able to get into the shop and working a little before noon.

 

I'm going to ping the A/C guy tomorrow as well.  He checked everything on Saturday evening and said he was going to get the system ordered this week.  Hopefully he has good news for me ^_^

 

I'm ready to get this build-out done and have the shop up and running again.  I've also not been as active here as I would like, but hopefully things will be back to normalish within a month or so.

 

-Peace

 

 

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8 minutes ago, Arthur79 said:

There is Good and then there is Good Enough

 

Feeling a lot better with the progress I was able to make today.  I was able to finish pulling all the electrical for the south wall of the shop, the the drywall in and most of the mudding done before I ran out of mud.  Not sure what possessed me to only buy 1 small bucket to begin with...

 

Here are a few pics:

 

20210923_220106.thumb.jpg.caff99a9ec6de5e6d7724582497cb566.jpg

 

20210923_220113.thumb.jpg.437b51cffa8505d78b72f52a2b6b7c3b.jpg

 

You can REALLY see how bad I am at this in this pic:

20210923_220120.thumb.jpg.e85faf5798e13b7f5ffcacfd755d4a13.jpg

 

And putting a dent in the materials:
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And here is the nightly recap video:

 

 

If I can be as productive tomorrow as I was today, then I should be on track to start moving some of the bigger stuff out of the old space on maybe Sunday.  Saturday I have an appointment with my physical therapist at 8AM, should be able to get into the shop and working a little before noon.

 

I'm going to ping the A/C guy tomorrow as well.  He checked everything on Saturday evening and said he was going to get the system ordered this week.  Hopefully he has good news for me ^_^

 

I'm ready to get this build-out done and have the shop up and running again.  I've also not been as active here as I would like, but hopefully things will be back to normalish within a month or so.

 

-Peace

 

 

That looks nicer than my first house! Digging it man

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Today was another one of those days that looked good on paper, but didn't turn out as productive as I would have liked.

 

I did manage to get the mud this morning before my 8AM work call and finished up the mud work on the drywall that's up so far and made another run to Lowes to get a door for the laser room I'm working on:

 

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And moved all the insulation again:

 

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Got started on the laser room, but had to knock off for the night:

 

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Here's hoping that tomorrow will see more progress!

 

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48 minutes ago, Arthur79 said:

Today was another one of those days that looked good on paper, but didn't turn out as productive as I would have liked.

 

I did manage to get the mud this morning before my 8AM work call and finished up the mud work on the drywall that's up so far and made another run to Lowes to get a door for the laser room I'm working on:

 

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And moved all the insulation again:

 

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Got started on the laser room, but had to knock off for the night:

 

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Here's hoping that tomorrow will see more progress!

 

Even a little progress is still progress. 

I hand dig a whole lot in my job. Sometimes, it feels like I can be digging a single hole forever and I start getting discouraged because it seems like I take a shovel full out, 2 shovel fulls fall back in the hole. You just have to keep telling yourself that you are making progress. That you still are moving more dirt than you think. Soon enough, you'll be done. No matter how fast, slow, big, or small the steps you take are, as long as your feet keep moving, you will always reach your destination! 

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On 9/24/2021 at 10:18 PM, Dafaseles said:

Even a little progress is still progress. 

I hand dig a whole lot in my job. Sometimes, it feels like I can be digging a single hole forever and I start getting discouraged because it seems like I take a shovel full out, 2 shovel fulls fall back in the hole. You just have to keep telling yourself that you are making progress. That you still are moving more dirt than you think. Soon enough, you'll be done. No matter how fast, slow, big, or small the steps you take are, as long as your feet keep moving, you will always reach your destination! 

 

I like the shoveling analogy.  I've definitely had some days over the last couple of weeks that felt like 2 shovel fulls fell back in the hole, but progress is being made 🙂

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So I got into the shop a little before noon and got to work.  I was up at the shop until midnight, but I did take a couple of hours in the evening to go home and make some dinner and take a break. I had to finally stop tonight just short of where I wanted to be, but I managed to tweak my right wrist and my back is giving me hell.  Fingers crossed that a decent nights sleep will cure what aisle me.

 

I stopped off at the home store on my way back from my PT appointment to grab some more nails as I was running low.  Hard to imagine that I've already run through almost 1k nails:

 

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I think after I finished the work I did today, I have 1 or 2 strips left.  Going to have to break into the new box tomorrow.

 

I ordered some cheap foam sound dampeners for the office so it doesn't sound like I'm in an underground dungeon when I'm on my DJ calls.  They come super compressed and you have to peel them apart and let them sit for a day or two in order for them to expand and off-gas:

 

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I laid a bunch more of them out and still have more to sperate, I think it will be an on-going task for the next week or more.

 

I was able to get the laser room studded out, the joists up, the door in and almost finished the electrical:

 

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I pulled a run of MC 12 AWG for a 20A circuit and re-purposed the metal conduit I pulled off the south wall to run some 14 AWG romex for a 15A circuit:

 

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I still need to run a pair of network cables (one for a security camera at the front door and one for the computer that controls the laser) and finish roughing in the laser room's electrical.  Then I need to build a big gate style double door on the end that will make putting the laser in there a lot easier (need to do the same for the dust collector room).  Hopefully that will go fairly quickly tomorrow.

 

I was thinking that I wanted to pull the stairs out of the old shop tomorrow, but I don't have anyone that can help me (unless my shop neighbor is at his place tomorrow - that dude is a mountain of a man).  We'll see how that goes, but I need to get moved before I can start working on the spray booth.

 

I sure hope this side hustle is wildly successful so that when it's time for more space again, I can pay professionals to do all this stuff LoL.

 

I did take a few minutes in the early evening to horse around some.  I'm storing my buddies riding mower at the shop for a little while and I decided to have a 1 mower race around the shop!

 

 

I'll try to get more done tomorrow, hope everyone is having a nice Saturday night ✌️

 

 

 

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