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This came rolling in my driveway at 2:30 this afternoon. (Told my husband that just because it followed him home, he is NOT keeping it.) The operator & construction crew will be here at 7 am to start on my shop. After dancing around the driveway while the guy unloaded the dozer, I walked into the basement and looked around at the hole in the wall I call a shop. I am so not going to miss crawling over stuff. I took a minute to think about the bookshelves I'll have (as opposed to stacks of mags & books now), how I'll have both an easel and a worktable and be able to use both at the same time, I can't wait to create my first paint spill on my virgin floor. Hoo, Hoo, Hoo (insert Tim the Toolman voice here)
Hey Perkins, to answer your question before Quebec, finally found someone who is up at 7 am.
Oh, almost forgot... seeing as I'm sure I'll be awakened to a dog standing over my head barking in my face at 7 am every morning as long as the construction crew is here, and his constant barking all day long til they leave, I apologize in advance for my bitchiness.
-------------------- Chris Welker Wildfire Signs Indiana, Pa Posts: 4254 | From: Indiana, PA | Registered: Mar 2001
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Remebmber this same feeling all through the construction progress. THere will be days when it isn't quite so exciting, but it will be worth it all in the end!
I KNOW exactly how you feel!!
Keep having fun ALL through your project!
-dan
-------------------- Dan Sawatzky Imagination Corporation Yarrow, British Columbia dan@imaginationcorporation.com http://www.imaginationcorporation.com
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Congratulations on your new project! Kissy what size shop are you going to build?
-------------------- aka:Cisco the "Traveling Millennium Sign Artist" http://www.franciscovargas.com Fresno, CA 93703 559 252-0935 "to live life, is to love life, a sign of no life, is a sign of no love"...Cisco 12'98 Posts: 3576 | From: Fresno, Ca, the great USA | Registered: Dec 1998
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Bob, I'll have you know my daddy was the best equipment operator around here and I always wanted him to teach me how to run dozer....wonder if they left the keys in it or if there is a stray cat key floating around here
Dan, I'm certainly going to try to keep a good attitude through this, just thinking the dogs will drive me up a wall. I figure whenever they get to me too bad, I'll just start packing stuff up. I walked around the yard today where the shop will be. I'd stop and say "I'm in my spray booth", "I'm standing behind my counter". Felt great.
Cisco, the shop is 30 x 48, 2 stories. Considering I'm working in the section of our basement that was a 1 car garage, the new shop will feel like a mansion to me.
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That's GREAT! Let the good times roll...You will feel like a princess in a new Castle. Right on!
-------------------- aka:Cisco the "Traveling Millennium Sign Artist" http://www.franciscovargas.com Fresno, CA 93703 559 252-0935 "to live life, is to love life, a sign of no life, is a sign of no love"...Cisco 12'98 Posts: 3576 | From: Fresno, Ca, the great USA | Registered: Dec 1998
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Rick, I don't have a floorplan, so to speak. The building will be 30x48. The stairs will be at the right end, against the 30' wall. The 1st floor will be split into 3 bays (I get to put the walls up). The upstairs, when the contractors are done, will be totally open with just the steps coming up. Any walls that will be built inside the shop will not be supporting walls so I will decide where I will put them once the contractors leave. The shop will have a modified scissor gambrel roof, so my long walls will be angled sorta domelike, which I think is really cool.
-------------------- Chris Welker Wildfire Signs Indiana, Pa Posts: 4254 | From: Indiana, PA | Registered: Mar 2001
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I gotta have a floorplan... It's just the way my brain works... Dimensional tool in corel makes drawing floorplan easy. I find it much easier to position everything; equipment, workspace and storage areas while envisioning workflow while working with scale drawings.. saves a lot of trial & error (and lugging & lifting). Plus everytime you add a new toy you position it with the floorplan first.
-------------------- Mike O'Neill
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I built my shop 4 years ago. Do yourself a favor. DON'T move in until its finished. I made that mistake. One bench which I've used for 4 years is a kitchen counter top on saw horses. The other bench never did get built. I moved in and was always too busy with sign work to finish the shop.
It's finally driven me crazy enough that I went out and bought some lumber and am making new benches. I vow to have my new sign up and all benches built by Christmas.
-------------------- Dave Sherby "Sandman" SherWood Sign & Graphic Design Crystal Falls, MI 49920 906-875-6201 sherwoodsign@sbcglobal.net Posts: 5401 | From: Crystal Falls, MI USA | Registered: Apr 1999
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Im envious Kissy, and good luck on your new shop.
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Kissy, Go ahead and double the size or your building now. You would be amazed at how fast you will fill that building up. I never thought I would be crowded in my building, but stuff just keeps piling up. Congrats on the new facility. Really exciting isn't it?
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A floor plan makes it so you don't get sawdust in the wet paint, or have obstacles to negotiate when a dash to the washbasin or phone is in order. A smoothe flow without doubling back helps keep it going. Where will you be doing what? Will there be a sound system? Where are the controls? Where will the table saw be? Wouldn't it be nice to have a floor plug there rather than cords on the floor? What about phone lines? How about conduit in walls with string in it so future cables can be pulled as our communication needs change? Dust collection system? Think about flow of air too. Heat movement. Ventillation. Lighting. Will there be skylights? Can they go somewhere to let in light without glare? How are you gonna get the heavy stuff up stairs? Have fun dreaming Chris.
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Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. — Charles Mingus Posts: 6730 | From: Mendocino, CA. USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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Don't worry about the dogs. They will get to know the contractors long before they go away. Just keep thinking about how nice it is going to be when finished.
I have to disagree with Donald though. I have a 30x50 shop and a 30x40 garage (used for storage), and my neighbor has a 30x60 building she is not using(so I have my stuff in it). One thing I have learned is ... the more space you have, the more junk you collect, and it still gets full real quick.
Congratulations, and be sure to let us know when the "shop warming" is.
-------------------- Don Hulsey Strokes by DON signs Utica, KY 270-275-9552 sbdsigns@aol.com
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2 more thumbs up for a very cool milestone! ditto all the encouragement for doing up a floorplan for yourself... then instead of wandering around in the mud at night saying "& here is my weeding table etc." you can do all that at your computer.
Or hand drawn floor plans are fun, or computer drawn, but printed out & then print out a page of shapes that represent all your furniture & equip drawn to the same scale. you can sit there & move things around till your dizzy, but at least you won't have a sore back
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Hey Woman...Thought you meant someone had fallen asleep in the yard...haha...you do live in a quiet little neck of the woods! Now that you're gonna have a real shop, when are you actually going to put up a WILDFIRE SIGNS sign? Hmmm? Let us know when the first meet will be held. Love- JILL
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I walked around the yard today where the shop will be. I'd stop and say "I'm in my spray booth", "I'm standing behind my counter". Felt great.
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