[Homestead] Doings
Don Bowen
don.bowen at earthlink.net
Fri Nov 18 11:10:29 EST 2011
I have been busy since we moved here a year and a half ago. Lots of
little and some large projects. The three most recent are putting in a
wood stove, a bathroom in the sewing room, and completing the shop
insulation.
The wood stove project was one that expanded beyond its bounds. We
tiled the entire room before installing the stove. It is now keeping us
warm.
http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/September%2011/images/tiled.jpg
Tiled room
http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/September%2011/images/stove.jpg
Stove waiting for cold weather
http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/October%2011/images/fire.jpg
Warm fire in the stove
The next project was plumbing the sewing room. I had to run water lines
to the room then plumb in a sink and toilet.
http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/September%2011/images/rocks.jpg
Trenching through Ozark rocks.
http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/images/tile.jpg
Toilet platform. I installed the toilet earlier this week.
http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/images/backsplash.jpg
Sink backsplash was part of the mess.
http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/August%2011/images/shelves.jpg
This is the book shelf I built several years ago. This is the third
installation for the sewing room.
The shop is another big project. I built false walls between the posts
and insulated with roll insulation. This last couple of weekends I had
a tin ceiling put in and had insulation blown in. Now I am completing
the electrical.
http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/September%2011/images/shop%20ceiling.jpg
Shop ceiling before.
http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/images/tin%20ceiling.jpg
Shop ceiling after.
http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/January%2011/images/start.jpg
Start of project, bare tin.
http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/January%2011/images/false%20wall.jpg
Put up a false wall with studs on 2" centers.
http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/January%2011/images/insulation.jpg
Insulation.
http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/January%2011/images/OSB.jpg
Cover the whole thing with OSB.
http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/January%2011/images/work%20station.jpg
Workbench and shelves I built last winter.
Another project completed this summer was putting the grandsons swing
set back together.
http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/September%2011/images/swing.jpg
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Don Bowen KI6DIU
http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/Journal.html
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