did you always work that hard?
or is that your new retirement standard?
When I was working, I worked on my feet all day. I’m doing about 4-6 hours, 5-6 days now. I tried taking days off for the holidays, but I got bored quick.
It’s really the enjoyment in seeing the plan coming together that motivates me.
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He is trying to stay in shape for when he gets back to the track gang
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Just in case some of you think I might be a bit OCD, I am posting this detail shot of fill-in pieces at the window in my defense…
You are OCD cause you could have just raised the box but NO your outlets had to be EXACTLY all at the same height!
Yes, I have standards for outlet and switch heights. This was a new work box. I mis-measured the opening so I needed to make it bigger at the bottom and fill at the top.
The crazy one is to the left of the outlet. Took me 3 tries to get it cut correctly. It would have been easy if done in three pieces.
Today I finished hanging the last of the panels where the walls are accessible…
After that picture was taken I set up for painting more cieling panels, but couldn’t get motivated to paint today.
Jon, I love it, sort of reliving some of the fun I had last year. Your panels look great. Are they sanded “sheathing” plywood? I’m planning on using that to finish a single basement wall, just 4 sheets worth. It’s currently exposed metal studs and I’d like to improve on that.
I’d probably have to sand, prime and paint… Hard to stain it, with all the ink printing gracing its surface. HD has that “Sandeply” but it costs 2x as much, but I don’t care about staining, just painting. What will you do for yours? Paint?
BTW I’ve had good success with cheap roll vinyl flooring, even with rolling around heavy gear.
This looks like a keyboard stand, you also planning on jamming out there?
What they call 3/8 sheathing. 3 Ply, supposed to be graded C/D but most I would grade D/F! It is not sanded and there is no consistency to the stamping and the better side. Some have the brand name stamp out, others the date stamp out.
For now, there is no plan for any finishing. There will eventually be bench work for the indoor RR. Below the bench will be storage and above will get decided on as I build.
It is. Left behind years ago by my oldest son. It doubles as a saw horse and a stand for my chop saw. However, Alexa’s new male name is Ziggy. I have not asked him yet if he plays guitar, jamming good with Wierd and Gilly and the Spiders from Mars…
Thanks for the 'splaining Jon. Yeah, I get the “D/F” comment!
Today was move a whole bunch of stuff so I could hang the ceiling panels I painted yesterday. That big armoire in the corner was Marilyn’s craft cabinet in CT. Unfortunately it was too tall to stand up in the house. It just barely cleared the cieling in the shop while tipping it up. Once all this was moved…
These two 4x8 ceiling panels were hung. Sorry about the weird angle…
In order to finish that section of ceiling, I need to move even more stuff. I think Ill do one more wall panel first.
I lost my train storage space the same way. When do the craft materials move in?
On the up side, there is more together time. I have gotten to use all her stuff within my reach, except for her fabric scissors (which she says is a divorce-able offence to use).
Marilyn has ceded the cabinet to me. Once all my crap is out of the back bedroom it will become her craft room and I’ll build her shelves to replace this. I had to abandon several cabinets in the move, so this will replace those for paint and tool storage.
It was a struggle, but I managed to hang the last three pre-painted ceiling panels. They all gave me grief. I measured before trying to hang each, but square error made even my adjusted pieces not fit. My second trim was only 3/16" off of the short side of a 4x5 panel. There is no way I could have done that cleanly on the table saw and a hand held saw would be too inaccurate. The Kreg track saw adapter did it perfectly! Check out the drop…
So now that I’m more than half done with the ceiling, I’m going to back to walls and trimming out of the widows and door before I go back to the ceiling. In order to finish walls I need to move the plywood stack yet again. At least it’s only 10 sheets left now.
This is the ceiling progress where it will stay probably into February…
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I’ve never claimed to be skilled at trim carpentry, but I wanted to seal up the gaps around the existing windows and cover the old framing. I started by filling the gaps with Alex latex caulk… .
All of my wall panels are around 7’, so I have lots of 1x4’ drops. From these I ripped a bunch of 3.25" strips that I covered the framing with and cut a sill from one of the existing shelves…
There will be some standard trim around the outside that will cover those gaps from measurement errors.
The local lumber yard is now 70% off and they had a bunch of millwork left last week. I went yesterday to grab enough to finish the room and someone had purchased the entire lot the day before 
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You know the saying: putty and paint make the job what it aint
You’re never gonna get to model building because after you decide on trim you will need to decide whether cafe curtains, tiers, insulated drapes, roller shades or venetian blinds. Then once that decision is made it will have to be a color decision.
If you decide on drapes or curtains then you will need to decide on rods and finials and whether you will have tiebacks (I prefer the gold tassels myself).
Also before you start modeling there another decision to make. What type of fire extinguisher (powder, foam, CO2, water or wet chemical) and also what color? However that way when the border patrol shows up and asks if you have any fire arms you are prepared and can tell them yes !
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No curtails and I already have blinds. You do, however, bring up several good points.
I need to buy fire extinguishers. One for the house and one for the shop. I should also add a CO/Smoke detector soon!
Only 14" of wall left to finish. I was hoping to get it done before football, but it will take some time as it is a tapered sheet. I don’t want to miss kick off. GO BILLS!!!
Jon, HD has a 5lb rated ABC extinguisher for around 50 bucks.
Walls and electric are done!
That last narrow sheet on the right of the front wall has a compound taper because the old wall is leaning out a bit at the top. I’m really happy with how tight the corner is! A tip of the hat to my anonymous helper who taught me a great measuring technique.
Next up is to trim out the new front window then back to my least favorite task: the ceiling. Two full a sheets, two 5 foot sheets and two narrow sheets and it’s done. It looks like Monday it’s back to painting
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A huge milestone Jon, congrats! And your ceiling & painting ordeal are soon to become history!