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Elgin Shop – Electrical Part 2

What a weekend! The trenching was done Friday after work, went better than expected and we finished the evening ready to lay conduit and 3 strands of 2/0 and one run of #4.

Well….we had no idea that 2/0 was so unforgiving! We laid out the conduit straight to make the run easier, soaped up the cables, and used the riding lawn mower to pull it through.

We then dropped it in the trench and buried it up:

We started early and I really thought we would be done in time to go to town for lunch. We finished up around 6 in the evening, learned a lot and had some quality family time.

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.

Elgin Shop – Painting

Got the painting done and the interior door installed. Still need to trim everything out and put locks and door knobs on. Kind of hard to see:

Here is the office:

And a couple shots of the shop:

And

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 2

Got the Ceiling taped and floated:

Everything got a second coat and was then sanded and cleaned up:

Back room has the same treatment and then textured:

It is hard to see, tried to get a shot around the window:

If the weather allows we will install the interior door and paint next week.

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:

Elgin Shop – Insulating Part 2

Finished up the insulation!

Framed around the roll up garage door:

Then we rolled out the rest of the R30 insulation:

And

Then we spray foamed all the large gaps that are to small for fiberglass:

And cut off the excess:

Drywall starts tomorrow!

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: