Yes sir. Here ya go. The fan... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07J9PTYRN/?tag=atomicindus08-20 Here is the check valve. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0842Y637Z/?tag=atomicindus08-20 The vent https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DSFR3H55/?tag=atomicindus08-20 The duct. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07WNK8BLN/?tag=atomicindus08-20
Looks great. Now that song is stuck in my head, lol. "Green door, what's that secret you're keeping"?
So, this week was a lot of manual labor. A LOT of manual labor. I painted every square inch of the new sheetrock....twice. Once for primer, once for paint. I burned up a HF spray rig and had to buy a new one from the local big box store. 55 gallons of primer and 55 gallons of paint. It wasn't cheap, but it did save me roughly $8500 by doing it myself. Let's just say I am glad to be done. Now, I can start doing the fun stuff. Well, as fun as building your own house can be.
That is a major milestone. I used to really like all the work prior to paint, but now I prefer the after paint work.
I'm kinda doing it out of order. I am building my own cabinets, laying the flooring and doing all the trim work. I think it's easier to paint everything and then trim it after I lay the flooring. That way the trim lays flat on the tile. I picked up the flooring today, but I have to build my cabinets first.
I have been thrashing on the Viking Fireplace (TM) mama wanted. It's 17' tall and 8 foot wide. We used 5 different stains over white pine. I fabbed ther mantle out of 1x12's and distressed them to make them to look like one solid beam. The bottom will be covered in thin brick. The TV will mount above the mantle and all the cabling is hidden inside.
Got my Roothawg patented Suck-N-Blow setup delivered by Amazon! HVAC guy is going to cut down an enclosure he has left over from the Mini-Split install, should work great!
So I have this weird little jet out in the shop office. It hides all of the air conditioning ducts and returns for the downstairs unit. I decided I wanted a cool MCM vibe in my office. Everything is going to be 1964 and earlier. I looked into the acoustic panels and they were way too expensive, so mama Root says that I should just make my own. So we did. We bought a bunch of 1x8’s and ripped them on the table saw to 1.5”. Painted the wall black, to make it kinda disappear. A little construction adhesive, a few finish nails and some Kona stain and it changed the looks. This area is gonna be a throw back living room from 1962ish.
Did a little floor work in the upholstery shop. It’s a big room, 15x23’ and yes it has low ceilings. Made the trim boards out of 1x4 pine and routed the edges. I still need to trim out around the door.
HVAC guy got my DBSS Suck-N-Blow installed today, turned out pretty cool and it really SUCKS! It’s in a A/C return box that is going to have a furnace filter enclosure so I can try to keep the big chunks out of the fan. The EMT is for the control cable to get pulled thru but right now I’m waiting for the male/female extension cord to come back into stock @ AC Infinity. They said that even though the cable looks just like a Micro-USB it is different and could smoke the fan motor! FYI! HVAC guy used the AC Infinity 8” duct and then reduced it down to 6” cuz had to use a 6” wall vent to fit between the wall ribs. Used a 90 elbow to make the turn out the wall to the vent. Wall vent all installed and looking professional! Thanks Root for pointing me in the right direction, I was stumped on how I was going to get this part of my shop done!
So, this week has been a lot of staying out of the way mainly. My electricians came back and put up the ceiling fans, lights, plugs etc. I don’t know if I showed you this, but I bought a pair of matching light globes for my 1962 office. It pained me at the time to pay, but I am glad I did. I am geeking out about the details, so here are my 1960’s light switch covers.
I did finally hang the doors out to the staircase landing. I took these out of a house built in 1932. Still have to do some trim work and paint. At least I can turn the AC on now. It’s averaging the mid 90’s now.
So I had a really cool score this week. Mama Root is a FB marketplace scavenger and she found a door for sale. It was an old general store/gas station screen door. This one really is an actual commercial grade door. I have never seen anything like it. It’s a 36 inch door, which is odd, since a lot of the old doors were weird sizes. It has heavy grates over the screen to keep people from pushing on it. The door itself is HEAVY. Just a bunch of neat details. We are putting this on our pantry. The plan is to replace the screen and print a LeGrange Produce logo on it. It has the coolest brass “No Solicitors” type of tag. There are shabby chic folks that love the old paint falling off, but we ain’t them…. Im not your patina guy. We are restoring this door to its former glory. More on this in the future.
So I couldn’t help myself, I had to get started on the door. I stripped it down to the bare bones to look for any repairs I would have to do. I have a couple, but nothing drastic. The screen pieces that lock the screen in place will have to be reproduced. I assume they figured these were the sacrificial pieces, since they loaded it with so many finish nails. The placard for the “no peddlers” is freaking awesome. It appears to have been installed before the door was ever painted. I was hoping to get a sample of the original color under it and I was surprised to find bare wood! This thing is gonna be wicked cool when finished.
Beautiful old door . Great find . The old grating is there cool . Yes you should probably strip it down to bare wood to remove any lead based paint . Although I’m sure you’re not going to be chewing on it or picking paint chips off and eating them . My son in law and I made sliding doors from old boxcar siding . We sealed it with a matte spray on clear paint to seal the old paint on to the boards .
I’m sure you guys don’t care about the house side of things, but it may be a while before I can work on the actual shop. So, with that said, here are some pics of the pantry that the screen door is slated for. We wanted to feel like you were in your grandma’s pantry….
And since we are on the subject of boring stuff….a pic of the shoe rack I built for the master closet. You trim carpenters look away. I still have to build the face frame. Yawn…..
This is what I put on my roof of my 30X60 building. It has rolled insulation in it but it’s cooler on the side under the panels when it’s 102 outside. It paid for its self in less than 3 years. It supplies the house also. I enjoy following your build Frank
Love the pantry door…very cool! I would have restored it, too. Is that some vintage style floral wall paper in the pantry? Very nice!!!!
Been doing boring stuff lately. It sucks because I would rather be working on the shop side of things, but this has to happen. One good thing is we completed the master bedroom. So, we moved in there and that helped. We still use the travel trailer for showers, but that will end soon as well. I spent way too much time building out a closet for the master. It’s done, except the built in chest of drawers I am building. I Jane been installing all the doors and trimming everything out. I really hate this part of it. It’s saving us a ton of money though.
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