The scope of this project is to create a metalworking shop behind my existing woodworking shop. It will be staged as funding permits, the first was the concrete slab poured about a year ago. Now its time to build the shell. The unique part of this is that I decided to reuse the existing gable end wall. Why? Because its an expensive wall to reproduce. Its stucco'd, sheet rocked and insulated. All that was involved was careful planning and making sure everything was rigged up well and the wall was cut loose from all previous fastening points. I had a little help from a forklift that I own. Even that took some finageling to get in there. We actually had to remove the forks to get the mast up between the gable wall and the next truss behind it. As you can see, we used some heavy duty ratcheting tie down straps to help rig the wall up. Best part of it all, it worked and nary a crack in the wall. It went very smoothly and took about 20 minutes to actually move the wall.
I thought I'd take the time
to snap some digital pictures of the project as we went along to share
them with others for inspiration or fun? :-)
Credit, My father, father-in-law
and myself are doing all the work. We built the home my family lives in
and my FIL and I built the shop together. This is the 3rd (and FINAL!)
addition to the shop.
DAY ONE:
The first day was pretty
much for prep work, and framing the new walls that would support the gable
end wall.
DAY TWO:
We spent this day rigging
the gable end wall, moving it, building and sheetrocking the partition
wall and rolling the trusses. The weather was starting to look questionable
so we decided to lay 6 sheets of sheathing to try and protect the drywalled
partion wall.
DAY THREE:
Today, we did the final
detailed framing work, eaves, fascia and most importantly the sheathing
work....
DAY FOUR:
We spent the day with some
final work to the framing in the morning. The fellow doing the stucco work
came over and lathed the building....
Late morning and most of
the afternoon we roofed the addition. We were under the gun as a storm
was moving in. We were chasing shingles mid afternoon as the wind was too
much, the temperature dropped severely too! We had about 9 square feet
of roofing left to do and the cap.
We got down, went in for
a bite to eat and watched some TV waiting to see if the storm would die
down long enough for us to finish. Wind let up and the rain stopped so
we got back up to finish, no sooner than we got up on the roof that it
started to drizzle. We finished it up and called it a day!
DAY FIVE:
Stucco base coat was applied today...DAY SIX:
Stucco finish/texture coat was applied:
DAY SEVEN:
Shell was painted.
Okay, so I've been a little lax in what's been going on. Fact is ran out of money! I have picked back up a bit and started on the inside of the shop, sheet rocking, taping and texturing (this isn't for the faint of heart, hanging the sheet rock is the easy part! Taping is the HARD part!) :
Inside is also now painted....and I've begun to pour concrete around to the double doors so that I can move my machines in. I recommend using a commercial "drop ceiling" as it saves the heart ache of hanging, taping, painting drywall and allows you the flexibility of locating air lines, electrical etc.
Finished up the concrete around the shop today. 6/19/01
