The Garage!

[gbrown]

We've got SLAB!



When we get back from France in two weeks the framing should be all done!

[Lorne]

Did you put your initials and the date in it?

[gbrown]

They're going into the sidewalk. I'm also firing a glass tile with names and a year on it... that will get embedded in the sidewalk, too.

GcB

[John-oh]

I love all these huge North American houses, I'm from Yorkshire and I was lucky to be brought up in a hole in the ground ...

Heres some more who were equally lucky ..four-yorkshiremen-sketch.html
I like the Alan Rickman version.
Keep us posted with the progress.

[Corey]

John-oh, 98% of the houses here are not that size. Those are a couple of biggies.

[gbrown]

It's a Victorian... built 1901. The Dot and her Ex bought it back in 1980 or so. Back then it was split into multiple appartments. Really nasty. It's also neat in that it's on a lot and a half, which is very unusual. THe addition that pokes out the back was put on in the early 90's.

You should have seen the hoops we had to jump through to get the plans approved by the Historic District.

GcB

[Corey]

I'm considering designing a new wrestling move called, "The Victorian".

[eric_darling]

I'm considering designing a new wrestling move called, "The Victorian".

It would have to involve a corset and a jar of snake oil. Maybe some frilly adornments, too.

Yeah, I love those houses, gbrown. My office is in a 1909 victorian building, but it's hardly the gem of the neighborhood in terms of historical significance.

[gbrown]

We are right on the northern edge of the district. Accross the street you don't have do bow & scrape to The Comittee. It wouldn't bother me if they had a nicely written set of "Thou Shalt" and "Thou Shalt Not". If you get on the wrong side of one of the people, you're toast.

That said, it's great having the district... it's one of the largest in the US!

GcB

[Intrigued]

Looking good so far.

[eric_darling]

We are right on the northern edge of the district. Accross the street you don't have do bow & scrape to The Comittee. It wouldn't bother me if they had a nicely written set of "Thou Shalt" and "Thou Shalt Not". If you get on the wrong side of one of the people, you're toast.

That said, it's great having the district... it's one of the largest in the US!

GcB

I know precisely what you mean. Rules and regs coupled with absolute power are dangerous.

Savannah has the nation's largest. On top of that, we have several smaller nationally recognized historic districts outside of downtown as well.

[gbrown]

Here's the Ramsey Hill Historic District Site.

GcB

[gbrown]

Wow... you go on vacation for a couple of weeks and you come back to THIS:



The two right-most bays will be for the cars. The left-most bay is walled off seperately and The Dot will be storing her teaching stuff in there. She has a zillion big tubs...with a couple of tubs representing one grade. Since the Minneapolis School District (in their INFINITE wisdom) keeps laying her off each year, and hiring her back at a DIFFERENT level each year, The Dot has full classroom set up for every grade from 1 through 5. Now we'll just be able to back the truck up each year and load/unload the year's classroom instead of schlepping it up and down the steps into the basement of the house. Of course, some year they might actully keep her on in the same classroom. THAT would be a treat! There will also be room in there for the exercise equipment that currently lives in the basement. But I digress...

Here's the new office space:



We worked our little butts over the last four days. The ready-for-rough-in-inspection wiring is around 80% complete. I've got all the lighting cans and spot lighting boxes in, and 2 out of the 3 ceiling fan mountings. You should see the size of the wire I stuck in for my 240V kilns... AWG 8!

We should be ready for the FIRST inspection this weekend.

GcB

PS. It was HOT up there this weekend. It was getting up to 90F and there is (obviously!) no insultation in yet. Lots and LOTS of water...and a BIG fan.

[Intrigued]

Ah, making some very productive headway!

Nice job Gary.

[gbrown]

Hmmm... here's a question: should I hard-wire in a bunch of network cables around the room, or just put in a nice wireless unit and receivers on each box?

GcB