Author Topic: Building a shop (Read 72167 times)

ChriX · « **Reply #100 on:** November 13, 2012, 04:33:49 PM »

Not really much of an update for you, but just to keep things going.

Put this up at the weekend, exciting! (still got to do the other end, it's just a feed coming across from the house).

I got this moved in a while ago, it's getting in the way quite a lot but had nowhere else to put it - looking forward to getting it powered up. It needs a damn good degreasing but it's served its job and all the surfaces are clean underneath.

Cheers

Stilldrillin · « **Reply #101 on:** November 14, 2012, 08:26:10 AM »

Hi Chris.
Nice to see things are still progressing.

First pic. I thought, YAY! the lecky's arrived!

Then I read, there's another end to the wire, still to attach........

Second pic. I thought, poor neglected little orphan......

Then I read, all underneath is sound......

Talk about highs an lows, peaks an troughs!

I'm really enjoying this post. Keep on, keeping on.

David D

ChriX · « **Reply #102 on:** December 15, 2012, 01:16:23 PM »

Hi everyone. No milestones to report, just continued progress.

A lot of the roof insulation is now in place, but not quite all of it. All 4 of the skylights have been framed and then lined with a bit of twin-wall polycarbonate (conservatory roofing).

Had to rig up some temporary lighting because it's getting dark so early now...

Hope these are of interest. I probably won't be back with more until the new year now so hope everyone has a great Christmas!

DavidA · « **Reply #103 on:** December 15, 2012, 01:59:18 PM »

Man. Just look at all that space !

Dave

Turns green with envy.

PekkaNF · « **Reply #104 on:** December 15, 2012, 02:02:17 PM »

That is a frigging barn

My garage looks like a dustbin compared to yours. If I wouldn't be supper happy for you, I would be supper jealous.

Pekka

DavidA · « **Reply #105 on:** December 15, 2012, 02:34:11 PM »

For comparison, my lathe is against one wall of my narrow outhouse and I can lean back against the opposite wall as I operate it.

Dave.

Rob.Wilson · « **Reply #106 on:** December 15, 2012, 05:08:54 PM »

way way too much space ,you suck

canny lathe you have yourself

Rob

ChriX · « **Reply #107 on:** February 03, 2013, 01:59:08 PM »

I hate painting! Since my last update, all of the roof insulation is now in. The outside is pretty much finished and all creosoted up. I have even put in some nice outdoor lights (sorry forgot to do outdoor pics!).

We've then been working on lining out the ceiling, and then painting...

The floor paint I bought turned out to be more blue than I was expecting - what do you think?

Did I mention I hate painting?

Swarfing · « **Reply #108 on:** February 03, 2013, 02:20:11 PM »

Chris i think i like the blue, brightens up the floor area making it more easy to find those nuts and bolts you will drop.

Deko · « **Reply #109 on:** February 03, 2013, 05:46:54 PM »

Grand job so far. Keep the pics coming, allthough you are making me very jealous.

Cheers Dek.

ChriX · « **Reply #110 on:** February 04, 2013, 04:31:38 PM »

Quote from: Swarfing on February 03, 2013, 02:20:11 PM

Chris i think i like the blue, brightens up the floor area making it more easy to find those nuts and bolts you will drop.

So when are you coming round to help with the painting? There are a few bits of Bridgeport in the way at the moment mind...

Swarfing · « **Reply #111 on:** February 04, 2013, 05:42:32 PM »

Well summer is close by now

ChriX · « **Reply #112 on:** March 03, 2013, 07:15:44 AM »

First coat of floor paint on, in one area at least - too much stuff in there to do the whole lot in one go. I like it!

Stilldrillin · « **Reply #113 on:** March 03, 2013, 02:44:50 PM »

That's looking good Chris!

David D

Swarfing · « **Reply #114 on:** March 03, 2013, 04:00:46 PM »

Blue defo looks good Chris

spuddevans · « **Reply #115 on:** March 03, 2013, 04:54:28 PM »

Looking real nice

Tim

Rob.Wilson · « **Reply #116 on:** March 03, 2013, 05:02:56 PM »

way way way too clean looking , mumble mutter

Rob

Swarfing · « **Reply #117 on:** March 03, 2013, 05:41:35 PM »

don't worry it wont stay like that long anyway

ChriX · « **Reply #118 on:** March 04, 2013, 04:33:52 AM »

You were right in that it didn't stay like that for long - after giving the paint 24 hours or so I went in and just touched a part of it with my finger to see how tacky it was, and the paint stuck to my finger and lifted revealing bare concrete underneath! What a disaster.

Originally I sealed the floor with a unibond/water solution but what seems to have happened is that this mix didn't adhere to the floor very well at all because its the unibond-concrete adhesion which is failing rather than the paint-unibond. I notice that in the places where the unibond had already come off the floor (due to scratches/gouges whatever) the paint has stuck fine.

I have therefore spent ages scraping off all the loose stuff and vacuuming well ready for another coat - hoping for a better result this time.

Sorry about how the photos are so rubbish now - I need a wide angle lens! It was much easier when there were no walls or stuff in the way.

Bluechip · « **Reply #119 on:** March 04, 2013, 05:17:43 AM »

ChriX

If it helps, the first coat of floor paint is often put down thinned ...

I found this out years ago doing a garage floor.

I'd put about 1/3rd down straight from the can, then a mate came up and said it will lift ..

Did the rest thinned about 3 parts paint to 1 part white spirit. It is somewhat patchy so 2nd undiluted coat needed.

About 2 yrs later the first stuff had largely come off but the thinned 2-coat area was still intact when I sold the place some 4-5 years later .

Look on the tin, when I was told and decided to read the wretched instructions it actually says so on the label.

Dave BC

Stilldrillin · « **Reply #120 on:** March 04, 2013, 07:43:38 AM »

Oh, BUGGA!!

Commiserations Chris........

But, Real Men don't read instructions. Hence the saying. "If in doubt, read the......."

David D

Bluechip · « **Reply #121 on:** March 04, 2013, 08:17:58 AM »

Quote from: Stilldrillin on March 04, 2013, 07:43:38 AM

But, Real Men don't read instructions. Hence the saying. "If in doubt, read the......."

David D

Quite so !!

Reading the label is a defeatist attitude IMHO .....

Mankind hasn't got where it is by reading the friggin' instructions.

The Neandertals could not read, nor did they have instructions to read ... and they did OK didn't they ???

Oh, hang on a bit ......

Dave BC

micktoon · « **Reply #122 on:** March 04, 2013, 03:58:56 PM »

Sorry to see the paint turned out like that Chrix

but it could have been worse lol , as I found out when I painted my shed concrete floor with two pack paint that only dried to the same as sticky hard toffee , e.g you stuck to the floor if you stopped for more than one or two seconds, I tried heaters etc and left it for a couple of weeks but in the end had to scrape most of it off with a sharpened one inch wood chisel, it was stiff sticky S***t so took forever to get off

............... as I was stuck to the floor doing it, I will never paint a floor again without a test patch on the actual floor lol.
Hope it turns out better with the next coat of paint

cheers Mick

Swarfing · « **Reply #123 on:** March 04, 2013, 04:10:25 PM »

Ouch! Chris i did not mean to put a hex on things. Forget the sealer and like the others have said just thin some paint down and go with very thin coats. It will dry very quick that way and you will get a good key into the surface. Airflow is key when drying not necessarily heat (that does help though).

ChriX · « **Reply #124 on:** March 26, 2013, 05:01:25 AM »

Hi guys just a quick update. First of all thanks for the tips on the paint - it seems to have worked this time! I first put down a coat thinned with 25% white spirit, this really soaked in and almost vanished overnight. Then I put down a second coat just thinned a little bit, maybe 5-10%. After these two had had a few days each to dry I put down a full strength coat.

I have left it almost two weeks but I am not convinced it is completely dry underneath but has stood up to me wheeling machines over it on the engine crane so certainly usable. Now just got to do the rest of the floor!

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