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That is going to be a beautiful shop Bob. It may not meet Jay Leno's specs but then again who does? Will the shop be a general project shop or be dedicated to auto projects only?


Jack,

Jack, I tried to design with some flexibility. Looking from the front, the left side will be day to day parking for my truck in the front 60 or so %, and then the room in the rear will be for the yard maintenance equipment/supplies. The right side will be tandem for two of the hot rods, probably the two '32s. The sedan will go toward the front since it will be in the finishing stages of it's build, the roadster toward the door end. If I have wood working stuff to do, or other things, I'll back out the truck and work in that space. Now on to today's update.

So, at daybreak today the crew rolled in and stuff started happening. By mid morning the trucks with big drums lined up and 36 yards of mud later we be paved with driveway...................gotta love progress!

There is an art to finishing concrete and pulling that bull float is a PITA.

I think I'd rather get a root canal than pour cement, it ranks right up there with body work for me.

Bob, I may have missed it somewhere but do you still have the 36 rag top? I didn't see it mentioned in your last post.


Jack.

DID you buy a house large enough for us visitors to Texas? Sure hope you have room to park my car inside
also....while I am visiting.

Originally Posted by Jack F

Bob, I may have missed it somewhere but do you still have the 36 rag top? I didn't see it mentioned in your last post.


Jack.

No, it went down the road several months back in the fleet reduction period.

Originally Posted by robot

DID you buy a house large enough for us visitors to Texas? Sure hope you have room to park my car inside
also....while I am visiting.

Plenty of room for guests, or even you ...........we'll have to negotiate on the parking thing.............if you can talk Lee into yielding her space you'll be golden.

Hmmmm....I think Lee is still mad at me for the check stuff at the Mexican restaurant in Vegas...maybe I should just bring a car cover, eh? Lindo Mohican....I am going back there SEMA week...got my SEMA badges earlier this week. Bob, does Greyhound run from central Texas to LV? Are you going this year? We leave for the Hot Rod Hillclimb in Colorado next Tuesday.....

All good Hotrods are like old dogs, the cock there leg and leave their calling mark.. Well my appears too so I would have to park out on the grass so as not to spoil that nice new concrete surface.
Now it is laid, I can see the fall of it clearly but one question for you Uncle, does the reinforcing steel just sit on the prepared surface and not elevated on small cones so that it is suspended midway in the concrete like they do here in NZ.?

Whip, to answer before Uncle Robert, concrete guys here do the rebar location one of two ways, one being the little plastic cones and the other being that they lift the rebar as the concrete is being placed. As I remember from strength lab, the rebar needs to be about 1/3 of the slab thickness up from the bottom for max effect. Some will argue that the little cones allow a moisture path to gravitate upward to the metal rebar and affect the metal....corrosion. Don't know if that is true or not. Knowing U Bob, he did it right 'cause he runs a tight ship!!!

Originally Posted by robot

Hmmmm....I think Lee is still mad at me for the check stuff at the Mexican restaurant in Vegas...maybe I should just bring a car cover, eh? Lindo Mohican....I am going back there SEMA week...got my SEMA badges earlier this week. Bob, does Greyhound run from central Texas to LV? Are you going this year? We leave for the Hot Rod Hillclimb in Colorado next Tuesday.....

When you poke the bear, ya get the claws............just sayin'
Hadn't planned on going this year with all the rest that's going on. I'd probably have to find another way. I think my historical eligibility has died.

Originally Posted by Whiplash23T

All good Hotrods are like old dogs, the cock there leg and leave their calling mark.. Well my appears too so I would have to park out on the grass so as not to spoil that nice new concrete surface.
Now it is laid, I can see the fall of it clearly but one question for you Uncle, does the reinforcing steel just sit on the prepared surface and not elevated on small cones so that it is suspended midway in the concrete like they do here in NZ.?

Yeah, the surface makes it easier to judge the fall. As for the iron work, I'd have had to take a video to make that process more clear, good question again. As the concrete dumps on the ground they lift the network up to the middle of the mass. Watching the crew work together on all the little actions needed to keep the process going well is somewhat like construction ballet. It's clear these guys work together regularly.

No daily update for today as very little happened other than form removal. In order to preserve the surface finish from traffic (mostly foot, but dumb things can happen too) damage we kept the other trades off the job. Though our temps are dropping already we got good heat during the day so curing is going well. Tomorrow should see the wrap up of electrical rough in, the plumbing rough in, and more of the trim work getting done, maybe all of it depending on which guys are here. Next week is foam insulation, and, if possible, the beginning of drywall and shingling. Getting to the part where scheduling conflicts slow down apparent progress.

Originally Posted by Bob Parmenter

Our soil here perks (if that doesn't translate to kiwi let's say absorbs) pretty well, so water management doesn't require extreme measures.

Translation unnecessary actually Uncle Bob; perks = percolates...(is different from chocolates.)
We can (if we have to,) talk properly Engglish...



But thanks all the same...

Moving along pretty well so far. Between Friday and Saturday we managed to get the rough in on plumbing, electrical and HVAC done, windows hung, some of the last of the exterior trim, and today the roofers showed up to get that done. Might see painters tomorrow to get after the fascia and maybe some of the staining. The insulation guy threw a small wrench in the works and pushed back from tomorrow to Thursday so drywall gets moved back to next week........boooo.

Your gonna love that A/C. I put a window unit in mine and mmmmmmmmmmmmm, it's nice in the late summer month's when it's 100 deg with 99% humidity outside.

Uncle Bob, that is very nice! Stinks to hear about the insulation guy. That always seems to happen at least a few times on every job doesn't it?