SO not more spiders, but the start of the spider room.
It was a bit back to front building project, originally it was the garage and then got turned into the barn for bails of grass and horse food, so had an outside door installed at the bottom of the garage for access to the food as the bails where stacked from floor to roof, back of garage to front , then the door got bricked up for safety as it got conformed into a flat, then broke out again when I built the store room(which is now the spider room) which got bricked up again to seal the spider from the outside. (for space)
Here are some pictures not the best photo's I have but was not that into documenting dusty messy work with the camera.
As winter was fast approaching I had only so much time to break out, brick up, plaster paint and get everything sorted between work, family and my other projects i was busy with.
As always, time is never on ones side and sometimes you have unforeseen problems, like half the wall falling over and you have to rebuild it from scratch.
Will I was grinding the bricks to knock out, to install a window, there was a piece of metal holding the bricks together which the grinder did not cut properly, so when I took the 10 pound hammer to the chased "bricks", the first hit from the hammer caused the top half of the wall to fall down like domino's, needless to say this was not part of the building plans and took me some extra time to rebuild. (The owner before us really liked cutting corners and did not build according to standards.)
The wall rebuilt.
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knocking the old door out,
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The proposed new door.
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The opening for the frame.
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The mess.
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I kind of did the thing back to front, instead of me bricking the old door closed and then knocking the new one in, I made the new door and did not have enough time or bricks to brick up the existing door, so by the time I had finished knocking down the new door the shops had closed.
As all my tools, spiders (not that people would steel them) and valuables where in the garage, I had to sleep there to keep everything safe until I could get more building supplies. :igiveup:
The half closed door way.
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Once I had everything bricked up and cleaned I started with the bag washing (plastering the walls).
Also had to fit the door, lay the tiles, paint, install the ceilings and run the power for the plugs, mount the heating panels and install the lights all before winter kicked in.
Needless to say, time ran out and winter came with a speed, I plastered 3 walls, I sealed 100ds of gaps in the existing brick work so the plasture will cover the wall without big ugly holes all over, installed the ceiling (one man on a ladder :rock ) and managed to install the door just before winter arrived. spider room was put on hold as I had other things that needed my attention. I finally did the tiling a year later.
The start of tiling.
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I must say, the cement floor was much more warmer than tiles are, after I had laid the tiles you could feel the drop in temp in winter, I also could not mess water on the floor to keep up the humidity like I did, now I just splash the walls with water. whistle2 :lol: But a carpet works great to keep it a bit warmer.
I still have to bag wash the one wall with 3 more coats of plasture and then paint, this will be done after winter this year. <---- topicsucks.
As I have to move all the spiders out and then do the list of things, it makes it a bit of issue to do in winter as the paint has to dry before I can put the spiders back in, same with the bag washing, it is messy and takes a couple of days to do. And the fact that I only really have weekends to do planned projects also takes time.
