Elgin Shop – Electrical Part 1

Started on the electrical. First we ran the cable puller through to make sure everything was clear. Then we put boxes 42 inches up from the floor and ran the plastic conduit:


Next came the breaker box.


Next we ran all the cables. They are all marked, labeled, and color coded, we know what run goes to what. Still need to run the conduit to the breaker box.


And:


Soon we hope to trench in the 3 strands of 2/0 to the breaker box and get it hooked up and start working on the plugs and lights.

Burn Keg

While I am waiting for paint to dry in the shop, I decided to finally convert one of my homebrew keggles to a burn keg. The top is already cut off. I cut rectangles at the bottom to improve airflow. When I was welding on one of the fittings I had a fairly large blow out, when I cut the rectangle it will be like it never happened! I made all the cuts with a 4 inch angle grinder.


Filled the bottom up to the rectangles with sand, put in 2 bricks and set a piece of steel mesh on top of them:


I cut a piece of steel mesh to go over the top as well.

 
Burn on!

Elgin Shop – Drywall Part 1

Well drywall is geting done this week. That is one thing I just dont have the skill or physical ability to do ourselfs. We had Eduardo Lezama (512-350-8997) and crew hook us up. They did some work for us at our other house, Clean work site, On time, great communication, and reasonably priced.

Here are a couple shots of things getting started:

And


Here is the ceiling:


Here is the back room:


And here is a start on the floating and taping:


And:

 

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Elgin Shop – Insulating Part 1

Got the Insulation going this weekend. The insulation/radian barrier that the builder installed is like the this Reflectix. According to the site it had a 3.7 R Value. I really did not get it for the insulation properties but rather it barrier properties. It will help with the condensation that happens down here on the metal roofs and buildings.
The walls have R19 all the was around:
And R30 in the ceiling:
 And
  Still need to do a little finishing, should be able to start dry walling soon.

Elgin Shop – We Have Been Framed; An Inside Job

We got the interior wall all framed up! Here is a shot of our first ever interior wall frame section:
We bolted down, squared, and leveled each section as we set it up:
Here is our doorway, 38 1/4 by 82. We are putting in a 36 inch door, should allow us to get anything we want through it:
Came out pretty straight:
All finished up with the fire breaks. We are pretty happy with the way it came out:
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