#16: Re: Project Unity (206 breeding grounds, pic overload) Author: Addaz, Location: SuffolkPosted: Tue Jul 26, 2016 9:22 pm ---- Looks literally amazing mate, so very well done so far!
#17: Re: Project Unity (206 breeding grounds, pic overload) Author: Sim, Location: West CountryPosted: Mon Aug 15, 2016 4:03 pm ---- Finally something a bit more automotive. Silent Coat really changed the doors' clang into a thud, and only this much was needed:
Covering the backside...
Ordered a toy-CCTV kit to start messing about with (if it ain't half bad, plan is to extend with two IP/digital 720p cameras for extra crispiness)
Will see how many of them is enough for a well lit workshop (we'll still need extra spots above tabletops..)
So far away so close!
#18: Re: Project Unity (206 breeding grounds, pic overload) Author: Sim, Location: West CountryPosted: Tue Sep 06, 2016 9:44 pm ---- Time for a quick LED lights test jig
Really happy with those, £7 a piece!
#19: Re: Project Unity (206 breeding grounds, pic overload) Author: Sim, Location: West CountryPosted: Sat Apr 08, 2017 10:02 am ---- Long time not posted an update here, during which we've built boards up against the insulation and lamp posts, chucked loft rolls into ceiling cavities supported by chickenwire, filled and sanded nearly all by now, also all electrics are in place
And finally, the first dollop of paint! Visual progress always feels better than something less obvious
Will use this area to experiment with paints, seals, and other animals
Months and months of preparations to work up to this moment of ...more work!
Yet still "I'm lovin' it!"
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PS, am I venting too much?
#20: Re: Project Unity (206 breeding grounds, pic overload) Author: Sim, Location: West CountryPosted: Sat Apr 29, 2017 8:24 am ---- The ceiling has dropped! Well, at least on the floor for now
Materials exceeded our expectations on all levels, highly recommend these chaps
#21: Re: Project Unity (206 breeding grounds, pic overload) Author: Sim, Location: West CountryPosted: Wed Jun 07, 2017 9:57 pm ---- Though to give a rundown in pictures to keep track of our sweat blood & tears (of joy)
Wild world white walls
Decided to start at the staircase end first
First faced area seemed like it would be a walk in the park
Was happy with after it dried overnight
Chose this part due to the least amount of masking needed. Ended up in the biggest amount of swearing when paint started to dry too quickly, not a one man's job that was supposed to be
Nice from far, far from nice, it seems it ended up in seams near the corners, though the paint covers well and they should disappear after few more coats, couple of extra hands, and start using better tools for the job
Don't worry about the bands where the filler went, those do hide well under 3 coats, as the short bays showed.
Low-ceiling bays and above
Befores durings and afters
First coat on the big drop wall
Three coats above the mask, ready for the ceiling
The Office (no, not the mockumentary sitcom)
Moments like these you realise that you should have bought the delicate low-tack yellow frog tape
Boxing up the electrickery
A finished piece of the unit! Well it's all smokes and mirrors really, because there's a fake ceiling tile on the right quickly bodged-held by the edge trim
Gateway
For those who went wth is in the last photo: the bit around the doors has been painted
Sound'n'warmth-proofing
One post to hold 'em all
One day Jim decided to take the unit down and just cut off the flaps from the main post that support it
But then changed his mind and welded some tiny ones back on
Reinforcing the banana-franken-post
What started as Unity's Xmas tree
Ended up as one of its pillars
Project "Sucker of exhaust fumes"
Routing out from the unit
And arriving to the chicken coop
Bender test
Fail, but exhaust gas won't be as hot, at least we hope so
Using angle grinder disk as the valve, botched it!
Angle lifter
Jim decided that it's too much of a faff to get the car up on the ramp as it is now, so why not twist it at an angle?
Some experiments with tablechairs
Some warfare
And it's up again (and cleaned, again; proof: see the first post)
bits and Bob's
During winter the white stuff comes only in the form of frost across the West Country
Insulation starts paying off
Close to the roof:
Downstairs:
And the jet-boosting it to 12℃
Prepping Jag for the MOT, checking the extents of the low-ceiling bay
Bob declared he can't let Jim blinding him with welds, so they started to #buildthewall
This extinguisher will forever be embedded in the post
Jag saves another 3meter conduit trip
Just prod them with a pillow
The cuppa and idea generator can finally be brought to its permanent place
Look who came out to play! Still turns over and gives beans can't wait!
Birthday present for Bob, he kept complaining current vice ain't good; Record № 84 bargain from fleabay befores afters made him really happy with that
Piping away so to be able to open doors fully and tee off to the kitchen
Jim-the-car-mechanic never had a chance to build a birdhouse, until now
It then was commissioned off to my gf for "mods"
I wonder though is it "green" enough or might the birdies not like so much of the finish
Looks like they are queuing up already
Or maybe just bemused...
Is really worth having a copy of the unit in SketchUp
We still need to increase that grey splash area in the big bays... Ideas about how and where the raise from 1.2 to ~2 meters could happen?
It does come with a nice brushed steel cover...somewhere
Flex7 is really a great British invention! And also will be able to use up our leftover flex cable
A soffit had to be built to attach the suspended ceiling trim, what a faff! And yet hides the edge nicely
Had to also "grow" a bottom edge now that we knew how high the ceiling will drop from
Unity party
Babies arrived!
Getting that perfect 90° for the ceiling runners, tiles will serve as the speed square
Will be a nightmare to get the tiles in, more like playing Sokoban, but doable, can't afford to lose more headroom anyway!
The risk of going ahead with those not widely used wipe-clean vinyl wrapped plasterboard tiles is paying well off, as they are thin!
Stay tuned for more finishing touches to come!
#22: Re: Project Unity (206 breeding grounds, pic overload) Author: PezHdi, Location: ShrewsburyPosted: Thu Jun 08, 2017 7:31 pm ---- A lot of work has gone in to this.
Fair play it looks great
#23: Re: Project Unity (206 breeding grounds, pic overload) Author: Sim, Location: West CountryPosted: Thu Jun 22, 2017 9:38 am ---- Cheers buddy, it's all about the love of cars!
Yesterday did the rising mask for the grey splash area at 11°, because the staircase above goes up by 22°, worked out to a perfect 208cm at the high end
After putting the 3rd coat of the white above, what a relief it was that this understaircase painting pain-in-the-neck (literally) was finally over
#24: Re: Project Unity (206 breeding grounds, pic overload) Author: Sim, Location: West CountryPosted: Sun Jul 30, 2017 3:00 pm ---- One day...
#25: Re: Project Unity (206 breeding grounds, pic overload) Author: Rob3twenty, Location: South YorkshirePosted: Sun Jul 30, 2017 4:02 pm ---- What a transformation, I doth ones cap. very impressive
#26: Re: Project Unity (206 breeding grounds, pic overload) Author: VorTechS, Location: Gloucestershire, UKPosted: Thu Aug 03, 2017 6:32 am ---- Finally they are indoors!
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