how did the LED trick work, pretty good by looking at photo?
Make The Space - Sunday 24th January
If the lining goes in this week (and there’s some hope) - jo and stefano are down tonight to do some more work, I’ll be putting a call out for Wednesday night, and we can crack a whole bunch up on saturday evening and sunday next week, we’ll want to start the floor straight after….
Pete,stefano,joe et al, can we get some wiki stuff for the lining, maybe with some photos, so that crews on sat (me) and others will know what they are doing? cheers
that would be mental if we get the lining mostly done in a week, is it possible?
joe has some ideas about lighting as well, Joe?, it would be good to decide now so we have the infrastructure behind the lining htat we need to hang lights
It’s the footings first, for the floor.
I’m now having a bit of a >_< moment.
We had 140 and 100mm blocks. In order to have a consistent appearance, I decided to use the 100 blocks for the wall. There are now hardly any left.
The 140 blocks are too tall (when laid flat) to build the footings, unless we change the floor construction method. They might be useful towards the back, where the floor drops away, however.
In retrospect, we should have used up all the 140s in the wall, finished it off with 100s and used the rest for the floor. But we didn’t.
So, two options for the floor footings:
- Buy ~75 new 100mm blocks
- Cast the footings in concrete
the 140mm will def work towards the back.
If we cast the footings, won’t we kill the airflow?
Gast the gaps in, of course (blocks of foam work well)
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Having the floor clear to put the footings in is an important point.
Last time we did it they went down very quickly. So it’s a logistics issue of being able to get stuff delivered at the right time.
We now of course, have much less crap wood in the space to cast footings, but maybe casting the footings would be the fastest way to get them done….
It was so quick last time due to the blocks being almost exactly the size we needed…which is also why they were bought…we cast a few bits of footing here and there, mostly when the concrete subfloor was too high.
Humph. This might be tricky. That said, we have the concrete mixer now, so if its a case of knocking up a few forms, and pouring a couple of feet, we could probably knock this out in an evening. Generally, all the forms will be the same sort of shape and size? With Jo’s semi-automatic nail pistol this should be pretty easy.
That said, if it can be as simple as balancing blocks and then we’re away, we should do that if it’s faster.
I’d say, as a rule, the blocks will be faster.
Agreed. a bit of a shame that we got the block sizes the wrong way around ><
Yes, and no.
Building a wall with those big blocks is a pig! Using them on the lower layers would have been okay. But at first the plan was to have some blocks exposed, so it seemed wrong to use different sizes.
I don’t think there are that many anyhow? So they’ll probably get used up on the back rows.
all truth facts.
I’m easy with whatever solution, lets just try and get the logistics correct so we don’t end up wasting a weekend twiddling thumbs. Would be better to have materials stacked up than to run out of stuff to do.
@tomnewsom Why is the cladding only up half way? It looks stupid? Also think the window should be the other way round.
We need:
Doors
- 1x Single Door solid
- 4x Double door with vision panel + ironwork
- 7x Door closers
so we can fit one on the snug and replace the front door one with something that is adjustable
Wall
- Timber for the wall frame
- Insulation material for wall
- 15mm birch ply for cladding the wall
- Thin battens for the block wall so that the freezer still fits
- Black drywall screws
- Osmoil
Lighting
- 12x Fluorescent lights
- 2x Emergency fluorescent lights
- Electrical conduit + junctions + hold downs
- 10x Klik ceiling roses
- White electrical flex 2+E & 3+E
- Zipties
- Galv wire for hanging lighting, crimps and crimp tool
- 5-way switch
- White mastic
- Hanging hooks for fluorescent tubes
Personally, I think we should only order materials for the small wall for now. Get that built ASAP so that phase 1 can become properly pleasan, and phase 2 used as a materials store as space becomes available.
Sideways window fine by me. The bracing of this wall is very important. Before the floor is finished, it will need to be firmly braced against the concrete floor so the heavy window can’t tip into/away from the kitchen. Then when the floor comes along, a proper “fin” wall can be fixed to it. We can’t rely on the cladding/lining interface for stability here. needs to be robust.
the less material we have lying around the better for getting work done.Also the less cladding we need to look after to make sure it doesnt get dirty/damaged the better.
If we are to split it up without impacting delivery costs/hastle too much then its prob best to split it up.
Yep. I think the bare minimum that needs ordering in short measure is the material to build the short wall. We’re 6 screws away from being ready to build that.
I think we’re all set then. Just need to keep a careful eye on logistics to ensure that stuff that we can be doing has the material ready to do it is all.