NXCoupe's Shop Build
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Thanks! I'm getting better, but still not house quality quite yet. Still a lot more walls to do, so I'll get better, lol. Thanks for the props!
your end result looks good, I been a drywall contractor and builder for 30+ years. Keep it from freezing, if there is any moisture in the walls when if freezes, it will expand the seams and cause the tape to pop and crack. Drywall is like a sponge so high humidity or pulling in thawing out a vehicle will cause the absorption. Carry on!
Thanks Don! I have found that out the hard way. I am not doing any taping or mudding until spring. From this point forward, I am just doing walls and hanging drywall. It'll keep the heat in and get us a head start for finishing up in the springtime. It has to get done this winter/spring. It sucks up way too much time and money, and I need to get back to customer work to pay for all this. Lol.your end result looks good, I been a drywall contractor and builder for 30+ years. Keep it from freezing, if there is any moisture in the walls when if freezes, it will expand the seams and cause the tape to pop and crack. Drywall is like a sponge so high humidity or pulling in thawing out a vehicle will cause the absorption. Carry on!
Agree 100% I am moving to the other side to finish the first floor walls, so we can put the joists in, and the flooring for the second floor and finally, the ceiling for the second floor so I can finally turn on the heat and it not go through the roof.
Well, my friend Bill was finally able to come over and help me get going on the walls. We started with the east and north walls since they are pretty straight forward. I put some 2x4s above the man door and sprayed foam to seal all the gaps around the door frame and the scallops in the bottom of the sheetmetal walls. Hoping to get more done tomorrow.
We didn't put the insulation in because we still need to run wires for outlets and the lights in the office and bathroom.
Every little bit is progress - just keep at it and you will get there!
Today, Bill and I put our heads together and decided to tackle the wall that has the breaker box. We had to take a bunch of measurements and sketch it out and still had to redo a part, but all in all it turned out pretty good. Neil came over and pulled the conduit out of the box, I unscrewed the box from the mounting boards and removed some 1x3 and put the box back on the 2x4 mounts. He redid some of the wire routing after we killed the power and worked by flashlight. We got it done tho! Looks good.
Today, the three if us tackled the east wall, the one with the garage door and man door. The 10 ft section we did first needed to have 3 or 4 2x4s together to form a column for the perpendicular wall to mount to. I forgot to do that, so off came the header and we did some measuring and figured out where it would need to be roughly. I put the header back on and we put it into place. One of the posts was so warped and twisted, we had to make the wall short and shimmed it up, which sucked, but at least it's done. Did the small section next to the door as well.
Oh, and yeah, I noticed the switch box and moved it level with the other side.
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