Stuff you have made today

[Blue Chips]

A friend of mine and I just finished installing plywood and eight double-strip LED lights on the ceiling of our new garage. It took 19 sheets of 4' x 8' x 1/2" plywood.

A drywall lift and roll-around scaffold makes installation easier, especially with an 11-foot ceiling, but it's still a fair amount of work.

The black stripes you can see through the plastic are just strips of tape temporarily holding the fiberglass batts in place.

All of the plywood is spaced to match the joists and screwed into the joists, and extra backing blocks were installed to join the sheets between the joists. It should stay flat, and it's not going anywhere.

It's nice and bright inside the garage now, but I might paint the ceiling white later to boost the brightness even more. I plan to eventually insulate and cover the interior walls, but that will have to wait until a few more projects are out of the way.

 

[Seadog]

Painting will make a big difference.

 

[RWD3M]

What @Seadog says

Will make a huge difference.

 

[badabec]

I'd do the walls now while you can still see them. Leave it too long and they will disappear.

 

[Blue Chips]

I'd do the walls now while you can still see them. Leave it too long and they will disappear.

I know what you mean. I don't want to wait too long before I can get to it. Hopefully within the next six weeks. There are a few high-priority tasks in the way, such as:

1. Finish installing our automatic backup generator.
2. Oversee the scheduled grading and repaving of our driveway.
3. Get the dock back in the water for the summer season.
4. Mow the lawn...not an easy task at the moment, because I need to fix the mowing deck.
5. Move our things out of two rented storage units, which means selling, giving away, or trashing a lot of things; otherwise they WILL fill up the garage. My spousal unit is dedicated to the task, and she has already started the process. About ten boxes of stuff have already disappeared. Once in a while she'll ask me if I want to keep something, but for most items she just makes the decision herself, which is probably a good thing, since I have a barely repressed genetic propensity toward hoarding. One of the storage units will be easy to vacate, as it contains my 1954 Dodge M37 project, which will be moving into the other bay of our old garage, which is basically my workshop. We'll be glad to eliminate the monthly rental payment ($440/month for the two units).

I'm fully 'retired,' although the above projects (and others) are essentially a full-time job. It's a good thing that I like doing this kind of stuff.

 

[Bki26]

Poor mans wood turning setup for a locating bump so the chuck doesn't slide about!

 

[nickk]

Made and fitted today for an ex employee,hard to see but 3 of the spindles are wasted in the centre for about 9”.

 

[MattF]

Made and fitted today for an ex employee,hard to see but 3 of the spindles are wasted in the centre for about 9”.View attachment 495713View attachment 495714

Why wasted?

 

[MetalMonkey]

I think he means they are necked down, you can see they reduce.

 

[Beeezer]

I think he means they are necked down, you can see they reduce.

Yes but why?

 

[Beeezer]

Made and fitted today for an ex employee,hard to see but 3 of the spindles are wasted in the centre for about 9”.View attachment 495713View attachment 495714

Nasty burr on that stud.

 

[MattF]

I think he means they are necked down, you can see they reduce.

Ah. Wasted as in waisted.

 

[dobbslc]

spousal unit

 

[Kram]

Hawthorne, chestnut, ash, ivy connifer mixed hedge, look at those thorns!

 

[MetalMonkey]

Cut our hawthorn hedge the other day - people that look at you funny when you are wearing welding sleeves and gauntlets have clearly never reached through a hawthorn hedge.

 

[RWD3M]

That's good defensive planting

 

[bricol]

Cut our hawthorn hedge the other day - people that look at you funny when you are wearing welding sleeves and gauntlets have clearly never reached through a hawthorn hedge.

Been there . . . blackthorn in mine too. Problem is, when I go for a garden wander, and spot dead bits, I reach in to break them out . . then another . . and another . . . I come in with hands looking very secondhand . . and then spend some time over the next few days pulling out snapped off thorn tips

 

[bricol]

That's good defensive planting

I planted mine to stop teenagers sitting on the wall on two sides of my property. As it's a junction, I needed planning permission for a decent height fence. No such requirement for much higher, thicker, hedge

Those teenagers now have kids of their own . . .

I did some hacking down and back, sorry, pruning, earlier in the year as it was getting too thick and high. Of course, the frosts came back, hard. Lots of dead bits. Still, breaking them out gives more room for fresh new growth.

Mixed up with beech and dog rose with other random stuff I've no idea what it is. Feels nicely isolated from the world when sat out on a summers day.

 

[MysterG]

Nearly finished this one.
Have a nice little wedge of mahogany to go in the opening.
Main body without spikes is roughly 4" across

 

[nickk]

Nasty burr on that stud.

Best keep out the way then Can’t beat a bit of necking,purely for some hand made looks,the ready made ones weren’t to his taste,or mine,luckily.