This building sure has been keeping us busy (and our pockets empty) this summer!
I will spare you the step by step pictures that led us to the inside being (almost) done. The pic below is me standing inside the overhead door and to the right. In front of me are two 'pits' where motorcycle lift tables will go. The room in front of that is the 'fabricating room' aka the 'dirty room' where Duke will have his grinder, machining tools, welder, etc.
This is a look inside the fab room. He has started to move some of his equipment in since this pic was taken but that will have to be for another day.
To the left of that is the hallway (duh!) and then further to the left is the 'dyno' room.
The dyno room that is filled full of JUNK, that is! While the electrician has been working this room has become the catch all for all of the stuff. If you look close you can see that the walls are made of peg board (there is also a second wall with sheetrock behind the peg board) and the hope is that it will help to muffle the sound while running a bike on the dyno. Let me tell you, Duke sure put a lot of thought into this shop...like 20 years of dreams that are finally coming true, that is!
The ever exciting hallway. The door on the right is an access door into the fab room, the first door on the left is the mechanical room and the second door on the left is the bathroom.
Inside the mechanical room, where some day there will be boiler to heat the infloor heat.
And the bathroom. It is hard to see from the pic but our friend Keith stained the concrete floor a reddish-brown and let me tell you, it looks pretty darn cool!
This is the back area aka 'cold storage'. It has the option to be heated but for now it is going to serve as a big (34' x40') garage with pallet racking and room for all of Duke's 'toys'.
Another angle of the cold storage.
Looking from cold storage back into the shop.
Oohh, there is the front garage door and the front service door.
Another view of the front shop, which is also 34' x 40'.
And these last two pictures are a little more recent. Last Friday, Duke and his friend Doug began building a workbench and the desk area for the front shop.
We are going to have to wait another week or two before the counter tops are in to finish it though. Oh, and you can see there is now electricity and ceiling fans! I can hardly contain myself!!
I am also proud of myself because I have been watching the Menards ads and I managed to get a toilet for $39 after rebate! Woo Hoo for cheap toilets. I also picked up a faucet for the sink the other day and today I found some roller shades for the windows. It will be nice when we can FINALLY clean out our garage and shed at our house. I just have to keep reminding myself that it is getting closer by the day!
I LOVE stained concrete!! But I would have it in the house and forget about the shop!!
ReplyDeleteLooks good, next time we will be paying a visit so we can see it in person - and all finished.
Did you show Duke the purple/eagle Harley? Maybe he sees things like that all the time, but we thought it was pretty cool!