Crzypete's new Studio

crzypete · Post by **crzypete** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 6:56 pm

More progress pics, the purloins are just about complete and the collar ties are done. The building is really coming along.

The seldom seen backside

The loft without the scaffold- really opening the place up.

Pete

nektai · Post by **nektai** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 7:41 pm

You must be smiling from ear to ear. The loft looks fantastic!!

DenaliPilot · Post by **DenaliPilot** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 2:32 am

[quote="crzypete"]More progress pics, the purloins are just about complete and the collar ties are done. The building is really coming along.

Looks great- nice to see the view of the backside. The inside space looks very versatile. Who did you purloin your purlins from, by the way?

crzypete · Post by **crzypete** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 9:41 pm

Hey DP, Thanks for the spelling tips, It looked wrong, but spell check didn't like anything else, so I went with it, I am the wiser man now.

We had more special visitors last week. They had to out do our first pair by carrying a board. good seeing you Bruce and Zarco, way to work up a sweat!

This week has been slow and detail oriented. Working on the soffit and trying to make it look good. Add a little tyvek and cut out the windows and it looks like some progress is made.

Here is the end of the day today.

The word on the street is labor reinforcements are on the way.

crzypete · Post by **crzypete** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 11:11 pm

The latest pics.

Finished framing up the back soffit today.

The scaffold on the front is dropped and I trimmed the ends, so tomorrow we should be close to completing that one as well

My brother has been playing the roll of teco-man nailing up numerous hurricane straps all over the interior. Late in the day our master rigger and truss installer Jim showed up for an encore visit. I am excited at the prospects for progress that are ahead.

nektai · Post by **nektai** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 8:14 am

Nice work crzypete

I like the size of the soffit. It should do a great job of keeping water off of the vertical walls and allow you to store ample amounts of crap in a quasi rain free way.

crzypete · Post by **crzypete** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 6:26 pm

Work continues. Lots of progress today, an especially good day of wrapping up little details which have been hanging over my head.

The soffit in the front is progressing. Also the end wall sheathing is now complete and the final purlins have been added to the ridge top.

The view of the sheathing from the inside really completes the attic space. Also in this picture you can see all of the cross bracing for the trusses which has been completed.

The roof is supposed to be delivered tomorrow. We are not quite ready, but I am definitely ready to have it on site. I hope our roofing crew is sharpening their hammers.

mr douglas t · Post by **mr douglas t** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 7:38 am

Things are looking great. The detail shots sure shows the level of accuracy you are taking it to. Do you have a hamond on sight? I will get my hammer sharpened. Can you get your pack and play set up and we will be there. Actually, it looks like you will need 4 pack and plays. Maybe a full time daycare provider on site would help the progress?

crzypete · Post by **crzypete** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 9:09 pm

I thought the whole concept of the pack and play is the fact that you can PACK it. The roofing arrived on site today. It is an amazingly small stack of material for such a large roof.

Our preparations for the roof continued. You can see just about everything that was done today from one simple photograph. If only I had the same photo from yesterday we could play a game.

You can see the tyvek on the front and the tying in of that soffit. Also all of the little corners of the soffit got sheathed in OSB. Some more windows were cut out. Lastly the first edge of the roof was framed. I kinda wish it overhung a tad more, but it is too late.

nektai · Post by **nektai** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 12:51 pm

Did you decide on the overhang when you ordered the roof or do you cut the first and last panels to fit? I realize it is too late to change it but I am curious as I haven't worked with a metal roof.

I love the transformation of the last week, looking forward to more pictures.

crzypete · Post by **crzypete** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 7:00 pm

Nektai, the roofing come in 38" panels which overlap 2" so your total roof is 2" longer than a multiple of 3'. The building is 56' long so the roof is 57' 2". I ordered an edge cover which allows for some variance there. I have heard that you can score and snap it to make custom widths. I would think you would be able to do a greater overlap- they have big ridges which limit the overlap. The lengths are ordered to size.

Here is some more progress. The eaves are complete and we have added some high up tyvek.

From the other end, tyvek is up, scaffold is down.

Here roofer roofer roofer

Thanks for all of the help Jim. My brother is back to help with more details this week. We are ready for the roof.

mr douglas t · Post by **mr douglas t** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 10:02 pm

I am happy to see some of the tyvek upside down. Tyvek I believe can be a tempoary siding material for up to two years, as long as you put it up with the writing upside down in places. Looks good.

crzypete · Post by **crzypete** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 9:52 pm

Labor day, so we labored, but only for a half day. The progress today was very visual and rewarding. We framed in the soffit on the front, removed the scaffold, cut out the big windows (finally) and patched in a piece of osb over the exposed concrete corner with a .22 nailer.

crzypete · Post by **crzypete** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 11:13 pm

Damn Massachusetts roofers haven't showed up. We had to take matters into our own hands today. Here is the last sheet of the day going up.

crzypete · Post by **crzypete** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 9:08 pm

Yesterday was a lost day. Instead of working 25 feet up in the air we ended up working 60 feet below the ground. It all started Wednesday evening as we finished up the first half of the roof from the last post. I came to the house to find no water. Checked the tank, the pressure switch and determined in was a bad well pump. No problem. We went out to dinner stopped by lowes which was open late and bought some supplies to pull the pump.

Next morning I hooked up my homemade puller and with my brothers help started to hoist the well out of the ground. Slight problem, it was heavy, extraordinarily heavy. It turns out the piping was not the typical polyethelyne that I have encountered in the past, nope they decided to use galvanized pipe. We had to set up a section of scaffold and mechanically pull the thing. It was a dirty nasty job. We pulled 20' sections at a time and then cut them with a sawzall. Got it all done and water was flowing just in time for showers last night and boy were they needed.

Here is our pulling apparatus. The block of wood is a safety and a stop that allowed us to rest it on top of the well while we repositioned the pulling chain. The pipe is clean here, but quickly became nasty and corroded as we hit the water level.

here it is with a twenty foot section sticking above our pulling set-up.

Ok, enough of that business, we were back at the roof today and made good progress. We fully wrapped up the first side of the building.

nektai · Post by **nektai** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 7:37 am

Thanks for the late night entertainment! (I came in from the new studio at 1:30am after sealing the floors)

The roof looks great!

chapster · Post by **chapster** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 10:45 pm

petey, the shop with roof looks surreal, soon you will be working in your new space...this will be a great day. you will rule the world next. thanks for including us in your gallery of pics, zarko will be notified of his splendor, but do try to keep the riff raff away.

crzypete · Post by **crzypete** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 9:52 pm

Last week I took a field trip to one of the local saw mills and ordered siding for the shop. I went with 8" T+G. As with every saw mill I have visited, it is run by an old timer who is a piece of work.

On tuesday we had the following exchange.

Lumber Guy: How soon do you need it?
Pete: A couple of weeks would be great.
LG: Good, I don't like to be rushed.

On thursday evening the phone rings (less than 48 hours later)

LG: Your lumber is ready.
Pete: Great! (jaw dropping a bit) Do you need it out ASAP?
LG: Not ASAP, but the day after.

Well, after a massive rain storm yesterday, today was the day. here are some pics from my visit.

his old planer/molder

the cobbed together ductwork which lead to the largest sawdust pile I have ever seen

3000 linear feet of siding stacked in my barn ready for stain.

guzziguy · Post by **guzziguy** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 7:11 am

nice barn. what a luxury.

nektai · Post by **nektai** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 2:35 pm

It looks like the barn could use some of that new siding!! Will the sawyer be a future source for that project too?