Hello all
Today I am starting on a small home workshop/studio build log. I am semi retired and moved into an old "tiny home" in QLD. I have had a workshop in the shed, but the heat makes it very uncomfortable and a lot of projects waiting in queue. This place has two bedrooms. We use the larger one for home studio as well. I am going to give the room a total makeover and install an electronics and craft workbench in one corner. A music and 3D modelling studio two one side in a recessed area
This is the corner that the workshop will occupy. The condition of this old place is fairly bad, going to need a lot of TLC
Today I am starting on a small home workshop/studio build log. I am semi retired and moved into an old "tiny home" in QLD. I have had a workshop in the shed, but the heat makes it very uncomfortable and a lot of projects waiting in queue. This place has two bedrooms. We use the larger one for home studio as well. I am going to give the room a total makeover and install an electronics and craft workbench in one corner. A music and 3D modelling studio two one side in a recessed area
This is the corner that the workshop will occupy. The condition of this old place is fairly bad, going to need a lot of TLC
This ugly corner is taking a lot of work. Applying the final coat of paint today. Had lots of prep work. I have some 2x4 cubic storage units of the white melamine chipboard type. Today found lots of large pieces of 18 mm melamine in the offcuts rack at the hardware. Had them cut to size for a grand total of $15 including a whole heap of various battens. Will be making a work desk, 3D print station and loads of component and tool storage in this corner by cladding and topping the units. There is some wood grain and marble laminates coming in from Ali for the renovations. I am building in cable lines from the studio desk to the audio interface input channels, as well as speaker cables from the studio desk to the work bench. 65" monitor above studio desk and 32" on the right wall in the picture to run the microscope camera/faux aquarium display
Will post some pics of how the furniture is coming along today. The poor surface state of this place is taking some work, but it's solid underneath, comfortable and the only place we could find on our budget and the need to store 4 boats and an SUV. It's in a retirement community and the neighbours are great. We help each other out in the yards and with tools and such. They also shop where my wife is a pharmacist, and they love her and my daughter
Will be some challenges with sound proofing in this place too
Will post some pics of how the furniture is coming along today. The poor surface state of this place is taking some work, but it's solid underneath, comfortable and the only place we could find on our budget and the need to store 4 boats and an SUV. It's in a retirement community and the neighbours are great. We help each other out in the yards and with tools and such. They also shop where my wife is a pharmacist, and they love her and my daughter
Will be some challenges with sound proofing in this place too
I’m in a similar situation and will enjoy watching your planning and progress. Thanks for sharing.
planning and progress......
Lol I find myself sitting on a stool in front of the work and smoking and thinking and thinking and thinking 🙂
My electric screwdriver is not handling the task. Shopping for a new brushless 18v one. I found a really nice table top at the reuse centre with rounded corners and smooth clean PU paint. This will make an excellent top to laminate with the gloss granite coming in. I have cut it short from one end to fit flush against the wall. Need that screwdriver to assemble this all together
Lol I find myself sitting on a stool in front of the work and smoking and thinking and thinking and thinking 🙂
My electric screwdriver is not handling the task. Shopping for a new brushless 18v one. I found a really nice table top at the reuse centre with rounded corners and smooth clean PU paint. This will make an excellent top to laminate with the gloss granite coming in. I have cut it short from one end to fit flush against the wall. Need that screwdriver to assemble this all together
Hopefully last coat of paint and that the blems will disappear as it dries. I didn’t bother to fix indents that will get covered with cabinetry
Good luck with this. I've been thinking of doing something similar with the spare spare bedroom in my home. I'll watch with interest.
Funny, but it's been something that has stopped me from doing things because I worry about them not being perfect...
I couldn't do that. I'm stupidly obsessional about such things and blemishes would haunt me from behind the cabinets. I once repapered a wall because of a small bubble in the paper that was going to be hidden behind a wardrobe :|
Funny, but it's been something that has stopped me from doing things because I worry about them not being perfect...
^ 'perfectionisme' as we say in french.
I'm infected by the same disease. One of the reason i rarely post pictures of what i do in here ( and because there is so much 'know how' in here not being on par is intimidating to me).
We have to accept it's a brake on what we do and totally irrational behavior: issues and missed things are the only way to progress in life...
I'm infected by the same disease. One of the reason i rarely post pictures of what i do in here ( and because there is so much 'know how' in here not being on par is intimidating to me).
We have to accept it's a brake on what we do and totally irrational behavior: issues and missed things are the only way to progress in life...
I should have mentioned that the cabinetry is all going to be built in, i.e. fastened to the walls. In other words, were a cabinet to move, there will be more than old indents in the way of screw holes and such
Guys, I would judge myself to be even more of a perfectionist than you 🙂
When it comes to painting. I have some habits. A basic cleanup and priming coat is usually how I start on previously painted surfaces and new work. I work to the process of sealing the work in primer/paint. Then applying the fillers which I make myself using micro balloons, fumed silica and epoxy. I get better results this way. My fillers are usually trapped between the primer and top coats. My experience with boat building shows that most fillers are meant to attach to primed substrate rather than neat substrate. I hope this makes sense
In the case of this 'tiny house', I am painting to almost finish without filling too many indents. I find that most smaller indents actually disappear into the paint and I do have a lot of built-in furniture to add as well as permanent fixtures like acoustic treatments. Once I have marked out all the wall area that will be taken up by these fixtures, I'll do any indents still showing and apply a finishing cosmetic paint layers
Try this on your next paint job. Applying fillers to new dried paint is a lot easier than the regular way, and fillers are sealed into the paint layers rather than sucking up moisture through the substrate. Hope it makes sense
Not mush progress to report. My wife is 4 months pregnant, and yesterday she came down with something, chills and fevers. We have been liaising with the hospital and seen a doctor. It's an infection and trying to get under control with antibiotics. We are very worried about the baby
Did manage to get some new tools to make this project a bit easier
We have something called Bunnings in Australia that ubbered the traditional hardware model back in the years. Now we just have Bunnings. A positive has been prices, though. They have their house brand in power tools that has proven to be a work horse for half the money when compared to the brand names and a very customer friendly returns and warranty policy, making it a no-brainer for those on a budget. The build is up to the brand names, and there are items that can't be found in brand names. I decided to buy into the brushless 18v lithium-ion ecosystem of their Ozito brand
And I found something amazing to with them! I don't know what it's like for the overseas guys, but here in Australia, the set of bits usually contain around 80% junk items that one would never need to use. It usually means buying single bit sizes in loose or qty packs to get the needed ones. So how cool is this Diablo bit kit? $30 for size 1, 2, and 3 in Phillips, square, hex and torx only and double qty for all the size 2s. Not a single junk bit!! Made by Bosch! Tradies in the same aisle recommended that and mentioned that they have all switched to this brand as it holds it tip better than the others
This morning I wend and added another animal to the ecosystem
I think I will probably end up with the full set, as I find that the right tool for the job always makes for something that is easier to get motivated to work on
Perfectionism is an awesome thing, though, and the only way to master it is by getting hands on and making all the mistakes and working out a process that works for you. Guys, start posting your pics and asking for discussions by pointing out your finish concerns, and we can all help each other to get 'moksha'. This helps one not feel scared of posting. I am new to electronics and speaker modelling, so always interact very humbly but with construction methods and such, I employ a very confident attitude as I have already gone through the process of getting hands on and working out the path to my levels of perfection (I aim for a higher level of finish then can see in similar work). Get hands on then get vain!! Vanity is mankinds most functional tool for personal health and work fit and finish
The three of us ended up in hospital emergency this morning with 40 degree Celsius temperatures. Getting a bit tired of delays to the work. Its is quite a challenge doing renovations in such a small place. There is barely enough room to move things around
Yikes! I hope you all recovered well from your heat-stroke (or impending heat-stroke).
I heard about the heat wave Australia is experiencing, and the massive fish die-offs in Menindee NSW ( https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smar...are-rotting-in-an-australian-river-180981854/ ), and I thought of you, though I figure you're about 1500 km away.
Crazy that the temperature in your coastal town right on the beach hit 40 Celsius.
Our planet's biosphere is collapsing faster than anybody anticipated, and both Australia and Canada seem to be in the vanguard. I remember areas north of Sydney received 1.5 metres of rainfall in a 24-hour period on July 4, 2022. BC experienced its worst recent weather disasters in 2021, with a heat wave, savage wildfires, massive marine life die-off, horrific flooding accompanied with enormous loss of animal life, some loss of human lives, and much damage to several cities.
That was in November 2021, and to end the year, we had record-breaking cold on the very last day of the year. Lytton, BC hit 46.6 C during the heatwave (116F), and even my city (not far from Vancouver, with a normally mild climate) dropped to -22C on New Year's Eve.
-Gnobuddy
Randy i hope you and your family are getting well and will recover asap.
Heatwave 😨
Heatwave 😨
Not a heatwave, fevers. Still suffering. Spent another night delirious with hot and cold flushes. Just woke up drenched in sweat/ The three of us caught something viral. Mrs is 4 months pregnant, so it's been very tough on her. My daughter is also still quite sick
Weather here has been very mild, but the changes are pretty obvious. For one thing, the local mango trees haven't been able to retain fruits past marble size due to nonseasonal storms for the past three years. Prior to that, it used to be mangoes galore everywhere here
Gnobuddy, you are back?
Weather here has been very mild, but the changes are pretty obvious. For one thing, the local mango trees haven't been able to retain fruits past marble size due to nonseasonal storms for the past three years. Prior to that, it used to be mangoes galore everywhere here
Gnobuddy, you are back?
Middle of Dec 2019, I left my gyals with my mum on Sydney. Closed up shop there and jumped in my new Subaru XV and drove up the coast 1400 km to Hervey Bay to start our new home. As I started driving up the coast, the bushfires started flaring up. 300 km after leaving Sydney, started encountering emergency scenes and diversions. From there on, it was heavy going, with it taking a day or two just to make another 200 or so kilometres. Being a night driver, I slept in air-conditioned motels during the day and drove a lot at night. So the whole of Taree area getting burned to the ground around me. Past the new highway service station/restaurant complex getting licked by flames over 40ft tall
600 km from Sydney past Grafton the highway onto Iluka was closed, and we were diverted along a hinterland way. Was going ok with all the spot fires and main fires showing on the app screen, and then about 100 km in a big flare appears on the screen just ahead of where my car was headed. In a few minutes everything ground to a halt with our vehicles bumper to bumper in a bit of road with embankments either side. I climbed up to pee and saw the wall of flames approaching. Back to the car and the temps spiked from 44 degrees Celsius to 48. The fireries had arrived and started turning everyone around. There were two fuel tankers in the convoy, and they were impossible to get turned around, so they dropped trailers there
Back to the highway to Iluka which the now showed open. Reality was that the main fire there was out, but traffic wasn't being allowed to proceed due to earth moving implements clearing the road of downed trees. The flames of an Aussie bushfire crosses a 6 lane dual carriageway easily. Waiting there for half the night and then another fire flared just past the Iluka area and further back on the highway
The road managers went around talking to all the vehicles, making sure everyone was ok. We all helped checkup on each other for simple things like food and water. From there they put us in a convoy of a dozen cars, a fire truck, a dozen cars and so on. Took us back to the hinterland way and escorted through the smoke of the freshly burned down forest. It was slow-going over those 200 km. The night was glowing as far as the eye could see with embers from the burning wood, and animals of every kind were lined up on the very narrow strip of kerb between the bush and road. They were just getting smashed by some of the larger vehicles as they got pushed out on the road. Went past the charred husks of the tanker trailers!
800 km after Sydney, it eased up from Ballina onwards but kept on seeing fires flare up everywhere on the screen. It was one of the craziest experiences of my life. The sadness of seeing the harm. I have a qualification in native horticulture, so could really see loss
When possible.
Long COVID is a very weird condition. Over six months in, I still have some bad days, and some good days. On the bad days climbing up a small flight of stairs feels like crawling up a cliff with a bagful of bricks tied to your ankles.
Then there's the brain-fog. A few days ago I literally couldn't remember what month it was. Checked the computer, it said April. I was sure that wasn't right, I was convinced it was February. Took minutes to convince myself that it really was April.
It's like getting a preview of what it might feel like to be very old, very frail, and living with dementia or Alzheimer's.
And I'm still one of the lucky ones. Just today a co-worker was telling me about a 43-year-old friend who got COVID, and is now in hospital with a leg filled with blood-clots, which are not responding to treatment. My upstairs neighbour has a young relative who got COVID, which made him diabetic and then affected his heart. He's not 30 years old yet.
On the positive side, it was nothing but bad days for months. Now at least I have some good days mixed in.
-Gnobuddy
Holy @##$! What an unbelievable experience. I'm so glad you came out of it intact. That story could have ended very differently.Randy Bassinga said:
I share the feeling. So do millions (billions?) of people.Randy Bassinga said:
In the last few years I've started seeing the terms "environmental grief", "ecological grief", and "climate grief" in the press and online recently. These terms are being used to describe the psychological impact many of us are feeling as we watch the earth's livable biosphere collapsing, year after year. We are literally losing the world we were born into, and it's happening far faster than just about anyone anticipated.
-Gnobuddy
Sure it is a feeling many shares: 'environmental grief'. I don't know if it collapse faster than anyone anticipated though: in this part of the world i live people talks about it since 70's.
Only now it start to be visible to 'regular' people though.
Gnobuddy whish you a fast recover. Long covid is a nightmare.
Only now it start to be visible to 'regular' people though.
Gnobuddy whish you a fast recover. Long covid is a nightmare.
Krivium, I think many of us have seen slow degradation happen for decades. Rachel Carson's book "Silent Spring" - the wake-up call for environmental destruction - was published in 1962, before I was born.
But the rate of degradation is no longer slow and gradual. Now it's abrupt and accelerating. Climate scientists cautious and conservative projections have repeatedly turned out to be way off base.
As just one example, in a 2012 paper, some climate scientists estimated that, in the worst case, if we did nothing right, the planet might have as many as 100 million annual climate refugees/migrants by the year 2100.
In reality, the world had more than 100 million climate migrants in 2022. Seventy-eight years ahead of schedule, and only ten years after that research was published.
Thanks for the wishes. I appreciate that very much.
-Gnobuddy
But the rate of degradation is no longer slow and gradual. Now it's abrupt and accelerating. Climate scientists cautious and conservative projections have repeatedly turned out to be way off base.
As just one example, in a 2012 paper, some climate scientists estimated that, in the worst case, if we did nothing right, the planet might have as many as 100 million annual climate refugees/migrants by the year 2100.
In reality, the world had more than 100 million climate migrants in 2022. Seventy-eight years ahead of schedule, and only ten years after that research was published.
Thanks for the wishes. I appreciate that very much.
-Gnobuddy
Well i'm not sure it is the right place to talk about it but i was born end 70's, when kid i used to snorkeling in mediteranean see as my family had an house in Spain. In my ten i used to need to swim something like 20 meters and dive no more than 3 meters to see a lot of endemic fish like 'girelles' , 'rougets' , 'dorades' and even cuttlefish.
There was a lot of posidonia oceanica too which are nursery for anything living in there.
Last time i was there circa 2000 i had to swim something like 250 meters to see a fish. Posidonia i had to dive more than 10 meters.
Around same period i visited again,(10 years after my first trip) 'la mer de glace' in Chamonix. I cryed.
Here is the evolution of 'glaciers des Bossons' since 2003.
From my point of view the 'treshold' was around that period.
Can't wait to have confirmation the 'gulf stream' have stopped. The heatwaves and dry weather we have in here for almost ten years are really worrying.
There was a lot of posidonia oceanica too which are nursery for anything living in there.
Last time i was there circa 2000 i had to swim something like 250 meters to see a fish. Posidonia i had to dive more than 10 meters.
Around same period i visited again,(10 years after my first trip) 'la mer de glace' in Chamonix. I cryed.
Here is the evolution of 'glaciers des Bossons' since 2003.
From my point of view the 'treshold' was around that period.
Can't wait to have confirmation the 'gulf stream' have stopped. The heatwaves and dry weather we have in here for almost ten years are really worrying.
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Sorry to hear of your personal suffering, man. How is the Mrs? I didn't realise that you had contracted corona. Have you looked into the 'erbs to help level out the discomfort? I could recommend a really good bhaang recipe. Hope it's all good days for you soon