[simpits-tech] shop update....

[Gene Buckle]

Well the shop STILL isn't completed yet.  I don't understand why they 
don't work a whole day, but it's beginning to drive me insane.  If you 
worked construction, would expect to remain employed if you arrived at 
work at 12:30 and left before 4?  That's what they did today.

If you're going to build a pole barn style building, avoid AT ALL COSTS 
Pacific Post Frame Construction unless you don't mind waiting 9 months 
for a building.


On a sadder note, here's a picture of the old shop that I took last week:

http://www.simpits.org/~geneb/old_shop.jpg

Rob & I finished emptying things out of the old place this week.  By the 
time you read this, it's quite likely that the old shop has already been 
razed to the ground.  A pity too.  The building was only 6 years old. 
Unfortunately this also means my childhood home has met the same fate in 
order to make room for 20 new homes.  Homes that will more than likely 
be filled with entitlement-minded soccer mommies, dragging their 
ill-mannered uterus trophies about with reckless abandon.  Oh. Joy.

What makes you realize your shop MIGHT be too big:

http://www.simpits.org/~geneb/pinch_head.jpg

...when you can play the "I pinch your head!" game from across the room. :)

Here's what the shop looks like as of about 10 minutes ago:
http://www.simpits.org/~geneb/not_done_yet2.jpg

They put the whole wall up that you see to the left edge of the image 
and they also put up the roof cap.  The roof cap is a formed metal 
extrusion that seals the very top seam of the roof.  I still can't 
fathom why they left.  There is plenty of material left and plenty of 
fasteners.

My site prep guy (Terry Bush of Bush Construction - fantastic guy, 
prompt and a joy to work with!) will be here on Saturday to re-level the 
floor so the concrete floor can be poured.  The concrete pour had better 
  happen next week or heads will roll.

Because these idiots are so slow, my poor F-15 sits outside, shivering 
in the cold: http://www.simpits.org/~geneb/f15_tarp.jpg

Thanks for reading folks. :)

g.
-- 
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