I haven’t posted in a while because last week went fairly uneventful, except we found a new plumber and bought some benches. We mostly got things ready for the sheet rockers to show up this week. We also had some friends from out of town come in Friday for the weekend, so there really weren’t any pictures to show a lot of progress.
Funny thing about those benches. We went to lunch one day, and as we came back there was a couple looking around the building. We talked with them and found out they are fairly new to the area and are building a house north of Barksdale. Turns out he was the Chief of Police in Addison for 17 years and they used to live Plano. Small world. In any case, he mentioned he had some benches he purchased from the Kelly Air Force Base Officers Club he wouldn’t mind selling. We went and looked at them with our interior decorators (Shelli and Frances) and promptly purchased most of his inventory. We now have benches from Kelly Air Force base in a building that was once an American Legion Hall, built with wood from the barracks from the old Air Force base in Hondo. Hmmm…maybe we should consider a name change, something military.
The plumber came by last Friday and we started laying out the plan for the kitchen. There was one drain in the kitchen area we wanted to utilize, so we were going to build the janitor closet around it so that we could use it to drain the mop sink. However, some squirrel that was getting into the building had been stashing pecans in there for some time. It wouldn’t work. The pecans weren’t so much the problem as it was old cast iron 1¼” pipe and time had just taken its toll. It wouldn’t work.
We needed a solution to drain all of the kitchen equipment anyway, so we decided that we would tap into the sewer line between the 2 bathrooms to handle all of the draining. That meant we would need to bust a hole in the slab under the stage. That was accomplished Friday and things started to happen.
Yesterday (Monday) we began to hang the insulation in the ceiling. Ray Ross came by and said he would have the sheet rock delivered this morning. Also, the plumbers came back today and our new front windows were delivered. Needless to say, it was a bustle of activity today. We were bumping into each other, but to me that’s a good thing. It means things are happening.
We finished hanging insulation today and about ¼ (maybe less) of the sheet rock has been hung. I’m rather pleased with the way the sheet rock is going up. Much like anything else that is 60 or so years old, there are a few sags in this roof, but they don’t really show with the sheet rock in place. It’s like spandex that way. As long as we don’t add any sheen to the ceiling no one will notice.
The pictures are of the benches, window and sheet rock delivery, new drain under the slab, bustle of activity and the new windows installed (one still needs to be framed). I’m starting to see a restaurant in this building.
Funny thing about those benches. We went to lunch one day, and as we came back there was a couple looking around the building. We talked with them and found out they are fairly new to the area and are building a house north of Barksdale. Turns out he was the Chief of Police in Addison for 17 years and they used to live Plano. Small world. In any case, he mentioned he had some benches he purchased from the Kelly Air Force Base Officers Club he wouldn’t mind selling. We went and looked at them with our interior decorators (Shelli and Frances) and promptly purchased most of his inventory. We now have benches from Kelly Air Force base in a building that was once an American Legion Hall, built with wood from the barracks from the old Air Force base in Hondo. Hmmm…maybe we should consider a name change, something military.
The plumber came by last Friday and we started laying out the plan for the kitchen. There was one drain in the kitchen area we wanted to utilize, so we were going to build the janitor closet around it so that we could use it to drain the mop sink. However, some squirrel that was getting into the building had been stashing pecans in there for some time. It wouldn’t work. The pecans weren’t so much the problem as it was old cast iron 1¼” pipe and time had just taken its toll. It wouldn’t work.
We needed a solution to drain all of the kitchen equipment anyway, so we decided that we would tap into the sewer line between the 2 bathrooms to handle all of the draining. That meant we would need to bust a hole in the slab under the stage. That was accomplished Friday and things started to happen.
Yesterday (Monday) we began to hang the insulation in the ceiling. Ray Ross came by and said he would have the sheet rock delivered this morning. Also, the plumbers came back today and our new front windows were delivered. Needless to say, it was a bustle of activity today. We were bumping into each other, but to me that’s a good thing. It means things are happening.
We finished hanging insulation today and about ¼ (maybe less) of the sheet rock has been hung. I’m rather pleased with the way the sheet rock is going up. Much like anything else that is 60 or so years old, there are a few sags in this roof, but they don’t really show with the sheet rock in place. It’s like spandex that way. As long as we don’t add any sheen to the ceiling no one will notice.
The pictures are of the benches, window and sheet rock delivery, new drain under the slab, bustle of activity and the new windows installed (one still needs to be framed). I’m starting to see a restaurant in this building.
3 comments:
wOw!! What progress! Those are nice looking benches and I like the outside facing.
Hello Holy Smoke. I am currently working as a dispatcher at Ameristar. I would like to apply for the job of "saucier" at Holy Smoke as soon as you get the meat on the grill!!
It's all in the wrist action...and I've got it down!
TB
TB, there is no way I could take you away fom that job that you love...aviation is in your blood.
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