12.31.2020

 

I'm not sure there has ever been a New Year's Eve that has people so anxious for the coming year!  2020 sure has been a year, but there is always much to be grateful for.  Hope that 2021 brings everyone a much safer, peaceful world!

Jim cut and was sanding the access panel door for the sink base...

Trying it out...

He cut a small hole in the back to use as a finger pull to remove the door and then put a coat of polyurethane on...

A coat of primer on the front side of the face frame...

In the afternoon, Jim went back to work on the drywall - this time working on the fill in pieces around the beam...

This looks amazing - the drywall is perfectly fit around the conduit and beam!

Jim had to take apart this receptacle again to get ready for the next piece.  He also had to take the new light switch out - he fixed it so that he can turn it on/off with the breaker so he still had lights...

Next piece up - Jim is cutting out receptacle holes and then he put in the fasteners.

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12.30.2020

 Jim started drilling the holes for the plumbing in the sink base this morning...

All done!

Another coat of polyurethane so everything is protected...

Jim did the hand millwork on the back of the sink cabinet face frame...

He test fit the sides to make sure all was well and then put a coat of primer on the back...

Working on the next piece of drywall in the metal shop.  These front pieces are complicated by the fact that we switched sizes of insulated concrete forms to allow for the brick ledger.  So the flanges don't line up between the two sections - Jim has to mark extra lines for fastening to make sure he hits the flanges when putting in the screws.

Jim cut the top corner of this piece and he will do custom work around the conduit and beam later...

Cutting the receptacles out...

Putting up the last piece for the day.  Jim also cut the top of this piece so that he can put up a bigger piece around the beam for strength...

J-channel in under the beam and more fastening work done...

That's the last drywall for the day.  The next pieces will require Jim to take apart the wiring.  Since it was almost time for him to hit the treadmill, that will wait until tomorrow.

Jim continued to spend time on the phone, trying to get questions answered and issues solved for both the lights that are ordered for the metal shop and the car lift which will soon be ordered!  

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12.29.2020

 Jim did some additional millwork on the sink cabinet base this morning...

He had to transfer all the plumbing markings to the base...

Then kind of a sanity check to make sure the markings were in the right place before he drilled holes...

One of the holes is very close to the edge of the opening for the heater access door, so Jim decided to reinforce the bottom edge and glued another piece underneath...

He also made a special door stop piece to fit behind the face frame of the sink cabinet...

Glueing it on...

All clamped and drying...

After lunch, Jim helped with a rug issue.  I bought rug pads to go underneath our kitchen rugs to protect the floors but the rug kept slipping off.  We bought some heavy duty carpet tape to put on the front edge.  So far so good and the rug is staying put!

In the afternoon, Jim switched to putting up drywall in the metal shop - very exciting!  

Fastening it in place using his new cordless drywall gun - sure makes things easier not having to worry about cords!

Cutting out the receptacle on the next piece...

First piece on the front wall...

Next piece up!

J-channel in place and Jim is going back and putting in the rest of the fasteners...

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12.28.2020

Jim figured out hinge placement on the sink cabinet face frame today and drilled the holes so that it will be an easier attachment when it's time to put the doors on... 

Sanding...

I temporarily emptied out the underneath of the current sink cabinet so that Jim could figure out placement of all the complicated plumbing underneath here!

Jim continued to spend too much time on the phone today trying to track down our metal shop light order.  He also went into town this afternoon to get stocked back up on diesel fuel.  I went into Saratoga this morning for Target and grocery pickups.  

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12.27.2020

Jim started the millwork on the sink cabinet base today.  He had to do some handwork to make the inset section where the access door will go.  Using a saw...

And a chisel...

But it looks perfect now!

Some sanding...

A coat of polyurethane for protection.  Jim will put formica on this so you'll never see any of it but he does everything perfect anyway!

After that, he switched to finishing up the rewiring of the light switches in the metal shop.  He had to turn the power off so he had to work just with a small work light, pulling wires from the original light switch box to the new switch box...

Putting the boxes back together...

He put armor cable between the two boxes...

Once that job was done and the lights were back on, he started working on making and installing the baseboard in this area...

Baseboard is all installed and this area is basically ready for drywall!  Jim had to move things around so that he'll be ready for that job.

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