Poker room 11/27/05

I did manage to go get the building permit during the Thanksgiving break. I might as well get it and have the electrical and mechanical permits verified by an inspector even though I plan on doing my electric work and letting a contractor do the mechanical part.

The powers of 2 finally got together after a month of hiatus and work the next part of the house, the poker room! This will not be too shabby but we do have 2 windows, 1 door and a soffit to create. With only 5 hours, we managed to finish 1 wall and a window wall. That window wall
too too damm long to do but we got it up and it was pretty accurate but it took awhile to level.

Here is what the room looks like so far.









I found some pics on my nikon from back in the beggining of the project.
So let's get nastalgic!


Simon and I getting ready to Jack hammer!

Media Room 11/12/05

After a 2 week hiatus, I picked up the slack a little bit but without Simon because he was busy.

Let me tell you, things are slower when you have to do it yourself.
Amazingly, I put up a 12 foot wall section myself without a whole lot of effort. I managed to catch all my mistakes before nailing the wall together. It's amazing how smooth the wall went up when you calculate correctly and catch all the mistakes before assembling the wall. I also hit a milestone today in that I emptied my first box of those 2 3/8 bostich framing gun nails. Damm, that's alot of nails.

Here's what the media room looks like so far:



Oh another tip. As you can see in the picture above, never buy 16ft lumber. they suck because they tend to warp. Either that or Home Depot sent me warped boards thinking that since I had it delivered, I would have no means to bring it back. Those Fockers.

So after one wall, it was around 3pm so I got lazy. I decided to finish up all the little things we missed earlier that were required for drywall. This like this little ad-hoc framing job for the framing:

Hey cool, the stupid double spacing went away!

Well, that's it. Next week Simon promised to help me out so hopefully we we can knock out the media room and move on to the "poker room". That will once again require a soffit.

At this rate, I'm hoping to finish the Framing by end of the year.