Shop Talk

pex hockey puck panels....

one version..

gotta be more.

'as seen on TV' DIY shows, they make it look simple....The real challenge is the proper design.... 'zones' and layout....so spend some time and get edumacated.....

Do yourself a HUGE favour ( favor) ! Run CAT5 from house to garage instead of 'WiFi' !! it'l be 8-10X faster and reliable.

BTW those wifi enable cameras take a HUGE amount of 'bandwidth' out of your route as well......

nice progress, looks like  just enough to do without feeling like the weight of the world is upon you.....hopefully you've got a book or list and checking OFF 'things to do' more than adding 'more stuff'......like mybe a cupola with a weathervane ? A nice siloette of a tractor( orange of course) !

It took 2 weeks but I finally got an email back from the City, it'll cost me a $595 'donation' to literally roll the dice to see if I will get a 'minor' variance to put 2nd storey on the garage. They could say no and keep my money...

sigh...

options, there's always yet another 'option',sigh.......

re: the stain.....

If possible, prestain the boards before you install. Sorry, the orange may have to sit outside for a day or two, but.. it's a lot easier and faster to stain them now than when installed. You can get the tongues 100% stained, so when the wood shrinks you don't see bare wood. I did this with the T1-11 sheets for my garage and ,yes, staining 4by8 sheets wasn't fun BUT it really did make the job go faster.

 Into the details of trim work like fascia and "J" channel and door trim. All takes time. Both Eric and Adam were helping the old man yesterday. We keep hitting at it.

All the sofit and fascia work is complete and they got the gable end window in place.

Adam caught me doing something!:)

Regards,

 Chris

Yes I have a problem that if rushed I may not be happy with the final work. The building is a pole barn garage, so it doesn't have to be perfect, but I want it to look good in the neighborhood. Being right out near the road it will be viewed a lot.

  I have about 500 sq feet of hemlock wainscoting to do so it will take some time and work to get it coated properly too. I sprayed and back brushed the sugarhouse when I did it 5 years ago. I think I used almost 10 gallons of stain Olympic brand Honey Gold color, if I remember correctly?

Thanks for the info and support.

Having all my items on order to get dried in before winter feels good. Now is the wait for them to get here mid September. 

So I have lots of things like this overhead door trim work to keep me busy for several days. Then to the wainscoting, prep for cement, downspout underground drains, electric service final install, and a short drive way, on the east side, then gutters. Yikes! Yea that should keep the wallet lighter!

Oh yes music! Chris LeDoux has helped build almost all this building. Now Patsy Cline helped with the WD45 project! I have to have something to keep me going. 

Regards,

 Chris

 That is a big building your going to build. Almost 3 times the size of this shed I am doing. As far as cost. Wasn't sure which part of the project you were referring to?

Today I have been helping the neighbor tear off his house roof to re-shingle. Luckily the temp is about 70F.

Regards,

 Chris

I agree with John about dropping RG6 ( cable TV) into the ditch... I forgot that when I pulled CAT5 to the garage...grrrr...4 hrs to go less than 100', I SHOULD have pulled coax...sigh...

The reasons for CAT5 wire  is greater bandwith and speed and security. 'hardwire' is a LOT faster, something you'll notice if you watch Netflix or goto websites with a lot of pictures/video like Youtube. If you add a wireless security camera to your 'system', it'll chew up a lot of bandwith. If there's only 2 users you may not notice the drop in performance..until say Windows 'auto updates'.....

Pulling wires is simple and cheap,now......like PEX , it's one of those 'woodashooda' things.

Lookin' great, Chris!

I always run one conduit for power, one for audio/data/etc, and one as a spare... and I always drop a span of PEX in for compressed air... so I have one big shop supply that's in an environmentally-conditioned space, and available in all buildings, and in the driveway, hen house, and garden-shed year-round.  Seems there's always a low or flat tire that needs a boost, a dirty chainsaw that needs a blast, or a roof that needs new shingles.  When I had my roof replaced, I already had a supply line threaded up to the attic.  My contractor was elaited to find that I could feed more than enough air to run seven nailers in March and not miss a single nail.

And I second the note on pulling CAT6 or CAT6... I pull several, because it's inexpensive.  Using wireless makes it 'spotty', especially inside a steel building.  Using extenders can cut throughput of connections in half or more.  I just use wire to make the long span, and put an access point inside each building.  I use the extra hardwire ports of the AP for Ethernet cameras, data units, etc.,

And Ethernet typically only uses two of the pairs (green and orange), the other two pairs are unused.  In the main spans I use unused pairs either for telephone (intercom) or for audio LEFT and audio RIGHT to my jukebox system... distribute audio to all the buildings, so I can listen to the same music from building to building... and in the garden... on the patio... in the radio room... in the barn...