John, Thank you for the well wishes! I hope your staying warm and safe up north!
Merry Christmas to you and your family this holiday season
Between 705 & 1200 SQ/FT "DaBarn"
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Workspaces between 705 and 1200 squarefeet.
John, Thank you for the well wishes! I hope your staying warm and safe up north!
Merry Christmas to you and your family this holiday season
harley jim
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Tony its 9° here this morning,burr,
This is one of my favorite threads, I so enjoy your creative projects, can't wait to see what next year brings.
Merry Christmas to you and the family buddy.
This is one of my favorite threads, I so enjoy your creative projects, can't wait to see what next year brings.
Merry Christmas to you and the family buddy.
Jayman17
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Happy Holidays Tony! All the best to you and your family!
Jay
Jay
Jim
Thank you for the well wishes, I hope you and Pat have a wonderful Christmas, thanks for the complement on my projects, I just wish I had your or Don Long's energy
Here in northern Indiana we only had a couple of inches of snow, thank god! because we had 50 mph winds now for the last twenty four hours, temps yesterday were -9 with a -35 wind chill, my house is pretty efficient on heat, usually! but the furnace has been getting a serious workout the last few days. I can hear my propane tank screaming from inside
Jay
Thanks for the well wishes! I hope you and your family have a very Merry Christmas
To all
To all my Garage Journal friends I hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas
Stay warm and safe and enjoy the time with your family
PugetDude
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70 F here today.
Jayman17
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No need to rub it in...
don long
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TonyNice! I want to move to Arizona
You might want to rethink that at 125 in the summer. It is a winter wonderland full of snow birds lol
Boostingaz
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As long as you have a pool and lots of beer it's doable haha.
For all of those dealing with the cold, I hope everyone fairs well and makes it through! I have lots of family in Indiana and they have really been battening down the hatches.
I was talking to my uncle the other day before the storm was scheduled to hit and he was chopping firewood while I was washing the cars! Crazy to think about.
sublime68charger
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Happy Xmas Bears Fan Hope you have a great holiday season!
racer-john
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Thanks BF, but no family exists.John, Thank you for the well wishes! I hope your staying warm and safe up north!
Merry Christmas to you and your family this holiday season
John, Thank you for the well wishes! I hope your staying warm and safe up north!
Merry Christmas to you and your family this holiday season
I received an AWESOME!!! Garage Journal Secret Santa package from fellow member Vbwiley92.
A Utah and North Dakota license plate in perfect condition for my USA 50 state plate collection
A really cool old railroad oiler, I can't wait to find time to restore this one.
An old table vise that he picked up from his grandpa's things and restored it, how cool is that!!!
And a little taste of North Carolina, some Chapel Hill toffee that my wife stole already and a bottle of Pork and Peck'r BBQ sauce, I'm really excited to smoke something on the pellet smoker with this sauce
I talked to my wife about this Pork and Peck'r sauce and she said "don't even think about it"
I really appreciate and love all these gifts.
Thanks a million Steven
jon72vega
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Tony,
May you and yours have a Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year.
Stay warm.
May you and yours have a Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year.
Stay warm.
I like collecting the old coin-op vending machines, mostly candy machines. My mother-in-law gave me this old almond joy candy bar box in great condition for Christmas, her daddy used to be a candy supplier, he drove around delivering candy to stores.
I want to try and date this one, it doesn't have any dates on the box itself, I thought it was really cool
Well the Holiday season is now over, all the family gatherings, dinners and gift exchanges are behind us
I have had zero time to spend in DaBarn and probably won't be out there doing any fun stuff until spring
The wife and I just started a major home renovation project.
Remove all the flooring - replacing it with new vinyl plank.
Remove all the casing and base moldings - replacing it with new painted poplar.
Painting all the ceilings - just basic white ceiling paint.
Patch all the nail holes and imperfections in the walls.
Repaint all the walls - the wife has picked out a new color, we are using Behr Dynasty, color is Abbie Stone.
Replace all the light fixtures and ceiling fans
Yeah! that's all
Here's some shots of the early progress.
This is the hallway that I decided to start on, removed the old trim and flooring, I had to rehang all four of these doors, the original builder didn't have them squared or quite level and I had to make sure the vinyl flooring would fit under the door casings.
Next I moved on to this bathroom, the original drywallers got as much drywall mud on the sub floor as they did the walls that pissed me off, "what" it would of taken an extra 15 minutes to lay down some plastic
Here's the living room, it ***** having everything in the house a mess
The wife started to roll some paint on the ceiling yesterday I didn't have to cover the floor, all the carpet will be replaced
I have had zero time to spend in DaBarn and probably won't be out there doing any fun stuff until spring
The wife and I just started a major home renovation project.
Remove all the flooring - replacing it with new vinyl plank.
Remove all the casing and base moldings - replacing it with new painted poplar.
Painting all the ceilings - just basic white ceiling paint.
Patch all the nail holes and imperfections in the walls.
Repaint all the walls - the wife has picked out a new color, we are using Behr Dynasty, color is Abbie Stone.
Replace all the light fixtures and ceiling fans
Yeah! that's all
Here's some shots of the early progress.
This is the hallway that I decided to start on, removed the old trim and flooring, I had to rehang all four of these doors, the original builder didn't have them squared or quite level and I had to make sure the vinyl flooring would fit under the door casings.
Next I moved on to this bathroom, the original drywallers got as much drywall mud on the sub floor as they did the walls
that pissed me off, "what" it would of taken an extra 15 minutes to lay down some plastic Here's the living room, it ***** having everything in the house a mess
The wife started to roll some paint on the ceiling yesterday
I didn't have to cover the floor, all the carpet will be replaced
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PugetDude
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Happy wife, happy life.
You’re making good progress.
You’re making good progress.
Scott
Thanks, it is a big project and we are doing all the work our selves, we bought the house new 25 years ago, all the flooring and trim are original, so it was time for some updates, the wife is painting today and I'm removing the metal wire shelving in the hall closet and replacing it with some new wooden shelves. The wife is pretty excited
I almost forgot to post a big milestone in my life, If I go tomorrow, I will now feel that my life is complete
I have completed my quest of collecting one license plate from each state
Thanks to everyone that sent me a plate
don long
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Tony
We took out all the carpet in the house last year and replaced it with wood planks and just love it.
We took out all the carpet in the house last year and replaced it with wood planks and just love it.
jon72vega
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Tony,
That's quite the accomplishment collecting all 50 states license plates.
Looks Good!
That's quite the accomplishment collecting all 50 states license plates.
Looks Good!
harley jim
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Hey, I recognize one of those plates!
Pat and I are talking about doing the same thing to our house, we have some nail pops, and some crown that we never finished, I dread it but it will happen.
Pat and I are talking about doing the same thing to our house, we have some nail pops, and some crown that we never finished, I dread it but it will happen.
I'm not envious of that list! Crown molding on our whole first floor was one of my Covid projects. Last year we did the first and basement floors with LVP. Me, my dad and my father in law ripped out all the flooring on the first floor and screwed the subfloor down (it was nailed). Had the LVP professionally installed in a less than a day and then I began the long tedious task of the baseboard.
Baseboard goes up so quickly but patching the nail holes, sanding them and then painting where you patched took forever and killed my back. Best of luck to you and your wife!
Baseboard goes up so quickly but patching the nail holes, sanding them and then painting where you patched took forever and killed my back. Best of luck to you and your wife!
Homebody
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Looks like a blast!
BlakeTheCarGuy
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Love the license plates. I recently completed 50 states as well. Congratulations. Had I seen before I would have sent a couple your way.
don long
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Where are you hiding Tony
Hope all is well in Indy
Hope all is well in Indy
PugetDude
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Testing... testing... testing....is this thing on?
Looks like a blast!
Guys, thanks for checking in! I'm fine! just been super busy at my day job which is good and then spending all my spare time on the house renovation, which means no barn time
We had a snow storm blown in Friday! Here's a few shots
That is one of our company's fiber peds that just happens to feed my house, ******* drivers forget how to drive once a storm hits, there was nothing within 100 yards in either direction and the guy completely blows off our ped right at the ground
This is one of our fiber splicing rigs, one of our fiber splicers was out here the next morning and rebuilt the entire ped
The snow storm had very wet heavy snow coming out of the north east, I recorded the progress as it built up on our back door
This was the view out of the front of the house Friday night
What do you do when its so nasty out? pour yourself an Old Fashion and settle in
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For a project that big I would think he would setup a tent to warm things up a bit.....
This is one of our fiber splicing rigs, one of our fiber splicers was out here the next morning and rebuilt the entire ped
LynnW
Lynn
All of our splicers have tents, but Saturday morning it warmed up enough and was almost 40 degrees, Shawn elected not to use it, I went down and hung out with him for a bit and the weather had changed a lot in that short period of time.
Sounds like our kind of weather.... Last Tuesday I put my dog out at 5AM... Yard was bare, by 7:30AM we had almost 5 inches of snow....
The day warmed up and along with a little rain it was almost all gone by 5PM....
LynnW
I know this is a garage journal, but with all the work on the house I have had no barn time, so I will share some house renovation photos.
I have the living room finished, except for the trim, I will finish the trim at the very end when the entire house is complete.
List:
Ceiling and walls were painted.
New ceiling fan installed.
All new white light switches, electrical receptacles and covers, the old ones were ivory and just looked bad, I wanted them to match the trim which I'm painting white too.
New white register covers.
New shelves in the hall closet.
New ceiling light in the hallway.
And of coarse new vinyl plank flooring, I had to go through and screw the entire sub floor down adding a 2 1/2" screw every six to eight inches to eliminate all the squeaks, the original builder used staples, wow its nice to walk through the house and not hear those squeaks
Up next is the main bathroom.
List:
Ceiling and walls got new paint.
New shelving in the closet.
Two new light fixtures.
New register cover.
New toilet, they clam you can flush and entire bucket of golf balls down this thing, so it should handle anything I can throw at it
And new vinyl flooring.
I have the living room finished, except for the trim, I will finish the trim at the very end when the entire house is complete.
List:
Ceiling and walls were painted.
New ceiling fan installed.
All new white light switches, electrical receptacles and covers, the old ones were ivory and just looked bad, I wanted them to match the trim which I'm painting white too.
New white register covers.
New shelves in the hall closet.
New ceiling light in the hallway.
And of coarse new vinyl plank flooring, I had to go through and screw the entire sub floor down adding a 2 1/2" screw every six to eight inches to eliminate all the squeaks, the original builder used staples, wow its nice to walk through the house and not hear those squeaks
Up next is the main bathroom.
List:
Ceiling and walls got new paint.
New shelving in the closet.
Two new light fixtures.
New register cover.
New toilet, they clam you can flush and entire bucket of golf balls down this thing, so it should handle anything I can throw at it
And new vinyl flooring.
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Next I started on the Dinning Room/Kitchen.
List:
Started with masking off the cupboards and painting the ceiling white.
Got the nail holes all patched, now waiting on the wife to paint the walls.
Installing new vinyl flooring.
New register covers.
All new light switches, electrical receptacles and covers.
All new casing and baseboard moldings.
Had a bad spot in the sub floor where the old door leaked in, I replaced the old french doors with a sliding glass door a few years back, so now I have to address the spot in the floor where the door leaked in water.
I blended the new piece of sub floor into the old with some premix floor patch and level, this stuff dried as hard as concrete.
And I have the vinyl floor down too.
On to the Kitchen next
List:
Started with masking off the cupboards and painting the ceiling white.
Got the nail holes all patched, now waiting on the wife to paint the walls.
Installing new vinyl flooring.
New register covers.
All new light switches, electrical receptacles and covers.
All new casing and baseboard moldings.
Had a bad spot in the sub floor where the old door leaked in, I replaced the old french doors with a sliding glass door a few years back, so now I have to address the spot in the floor where the door leaked in water.
I blended the new piece of sub floor into the old with some premix floor patch and level, this stuff dried as hard as concrete.
And I have the vinyl floor down too.
On to the Kitchen next
When your doing renovations I think everyone finds one of those WTF moments, as I started to remove the old flooring in the kitchen I found two randomly placed hole saw holes drilled into the sub floor, they were drilled almost all the way through 
I used my premix floor patch and level to cover them up and it gave it some added strength, it should be good now
Next I had to remove the dish washer to get the new flooring in there, boy I don't like screwing with dish washers, but I got it out and back in. This brings me up to date on the house renovations, I'm probably just over halfway done, "things never move too fast around here"
I used my premix floor patch and level to cover them up and it gave it some added strength, it should be good now
Next I had to remove the dish washer to get the new flooring in there, boy I don't like screwing with dish washers, but I got it out and back in. This brings me up to date on the house renovations, I'm probably just over halfway done, "things never move too fast around here"
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Jayman17
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Tony, nice work on the renovations, they look good. Amazing what fresh paint and new flooring can do for a home. I can see why the shop time has been limited. I’ll bet you are really itching to get back to DaBarn! 
harley jim
Well-known member
Tony, I'd say you arnt letting any dust settle on you, that's a lot of work you have gotten done buddy!
jon72vega
Well-known member
Very nice work Tony!
Tony, nice work on the renovations, they look good. Amazing what fresh paint and new flooring can do for a home. I can see why the shop time has been limited. I’ll bet you are really itching to get back to DaBarn!
Wow!!! its been a while since I have posted anything new.
Guys, thanks for the compliments on the house renovations. I slowed down some and I have been crazy busy with the day job
I have spent a little bit of time out in DaBarn on some small projects, I will try to get them posted as soon as I get some clear coat sprayed on them. I recently gutted our kitchen pantry and built all new shelving in it, I think I spent as much time on the pantry as I have on the entire rest of the house 
Before shot, what a mess
Gutted it! Painted the ceiling, put up a new light fixture and started to frame out new shelves with 2x2.
Nothing was square
Ended up with four shelves 16" apart, covered them with 1/2" sanded plywood and then ripped down some cherry boards I had stored in the shed to put on the face of the shelves, I got tired of the sticker shock on the price of everything when making trips to Home Depot for supplies
After routing the face of the shelves, a little bit of wood filler, a **** ton of white caulk and a lot of sanding it was ready for paint.
Added the new flooring too
Bonus points, the wife loves her new pantry 
don long
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So you’re not moving any time soon I’m guessing
Nice to see you here again tony
Nice to see you here again tony
Don
I have no plans of moving any time soon, I'm too tired
I enjoy a good Old Fashion once in a while. Bulleit makes a good premix Old Fashion, what's cool is the bottle it comes in, its a thick heavy bottle that reminded me of some of the older glass bottles, I'm always thinking about repurposing stuff, so I made this cool little Sinclair display out of the bottles.
After peeling off the labels, I picked up some number 10 corks that fit the bottles.
I started on the stand by rolling some 1/4" round stock.
Tacked it all together!
Added on the front of the display stand and then smoothed everything out.
Decided to paint the base white.
I created this stencil and cut it out with my vinyl cutter.
Got the red and green paint on, I'm really liking how this is turning out
Got it completed and I'm real happy with it, it kind of reminds me of one of the old salesman displays or the old counter top advertising displays.
PugetDude
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Fantastic job on the Sinclair display, Tony!
How long did it take you to empty those bottles?
How long did it take you to empty those bottles?
jon72vega
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The Sinclair display is cool!