Progress has been glacial with other stuff competing for my attention. I've got one more coat of lime wash to put on, the stove arrived yesterday and I have a spark coming on Saturday to sort out some wiring. We should get the arch on the second door frame up then too.
Lovely low winter sun this morning.
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Murr came over this morning and we set to framing up the south facing doorway. It was bitterly cold but we got it up.
Another step closer. I'm going to start using the logs in one of the bays so I can see clear through to the studio and and the landscape beyond. I didn't foresee The space ever needing it's view when I built the log shed. It was a largely forgotten spot, used for burning arb and garden waste. Shame on me.
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Not a bad view to be honest pete!
Surely if you clear a bay you'll just see another one behind it that you have forgotten about.
wot the fridge said,
I think that's a splendid view!
If punters want a view, send them to the studio for a personal mcmoonterising.
Harrythespider, I laughed but had to check. I think there is just enough space to see past. This is the view from the studio door.
It's all Land Art of a kind.
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Maybe December isn't the best month to be painting out doors. But in a bid to try to get some glass in at least the outer panels before Christmas so I can lay some boards, I put some undercoat on the framing around the doors. I will top coat it with the same pale, blue grey I painted the studio with, I've still got some left over.
I've got the armored cable for the power supply, a load of floor flush mounting sockets, a floor nailer and some stove pipe. So surely over the Christmas break I can get a move on again. Nothing is especially difficult it's just finding the time to get it done.
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have you got some salvaged glass lined up for those like usual, or *shock horror* will you have to part with some shekels for virgin panes?
Flue looks like it's in a perfect position...
have you got some salvaged glass lined up for those like usual, or *shock horror* will you have to part with some shekels for virgin panes?
The glass? I have a stash of recycled toughened bus shelter glass, but alas it wouldn't fit in any configuration. So I'll have to break into the shekel bank. I'll get laminated stuff rather than some un laminated double glazed unit. The centre panel in each opening will be a glazed door. I want to lay the floor before I make the door.
As you say the flue will be in just about the right spot. I could have used a stove today as it was Baltic outside. I had the studio stove on so I could dash in and thaw out every half hour.
A bit of a Grand Designs day today. The glass I ordered yesterday arrived this morning. 6mm laminated. I supplied the measurements to the glazier, so I always have that anxiety that I may have misread the tape. All was good and they fitted perfectly. With only a third of the opening now open, it's noticeably warmer with the reduced wind chill.
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Is that a Rolls Royce outside? Notice my lack of a 😯 face with that question!
Is that a Rolls Royce outside?
Yes but it's more of a tool shelf. Driving it back into the garage will double its annual mileage.
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Looking great!
Looking forward to seeing the floor - are you going to retain the coloured gym markings?
Looking great!
Looking forward to seeing the floor - are you going to retain the coloured gym markings?
I'm tempted to keep them, it just depends of how it all fits together. A friend sent me a picture of an artist's supplies shop in Portland which had a recycled gym floor, they kept the markings. I will see if I can find it.
Here it is
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Pete, sounds like you have done this already, any glass in doors and/or glass next to doors needs to be safety rated, see here http://www.pilkington.com/~/media/Pilkington/Site%20Content/UK/Reference/BRImpactSafetyPDF.ashx
if you look in the corner of the pane there should be an etched standard mark, maybe BS6206 or other. Also worth thinking about manifestation on the glass if large panes to stop folk walking into it; I have seen it happen, look out of window...see nice view...walk towards wood pile...walk into glass!
Keep up the good work.
I guess it depends on the look you're after, but I think that looks fantastic (although yours could look even better in that dark timber).
Everything is coming together nicely.
Looking very nice...
Also worth thinking about manifestation on the glass if large panes to stop folk walking into it;
Good call, I almost did it myself and I'd just put the pane in. 🙂
One of my cats had a bit of a shock when I put the glass in the shed. He'd got used to jumping through, then...
There are a couple of claw marks in the timber now from where he scrabbled to stop the freefall.
am sitting in a bar in Gloucester for "brunch".
Looks fine to me!
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Wetherspoons for brunch, Stoner?. dear oh dear... 😀
Looks appealing Stoner.
Also worth thinking about manifestation on the glass if large panes to stop folk walking into it;
[i]Good call, I almost did it myself and I'd just put the pane in. [/i]
possibly this? 🙂
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Kcal - stealth cock, balls & spaff. Perfect 😈
I updated the blog with some new pictures this morning.
http://www.petermclarenfineart.com/Blog/GlassmountGalleryProject
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had not seen the blog before. nice to see the progression in photos like that.
That's the first two feet laid. I'm having to clean the tongue and groove of every board which takes a minute or two but the joints are tight. I think it's going to work well.
I'm loving using the proper floor nailer to set the brad into the tongue.
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I made a bit more progress today. I had to faff with some wiring and a corner but it's coming together.
At first I thought the stripes were taped to the boards, I never paid much attention to them. They have in fact been neatly masked then painted on. They have a lovely patina, well worth saving. I'll try and lightly sand and revarnish the floor later.
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looks superb P.
will you apply any finish or just give it a clean and a wax?
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I love the randomness of those painted marks, I'd leave them and polish the boards, keep them as a feature, part of their history.
Sorry, just re-read the post, that's the intension anyway. Looks great, never seen recycled gym flooring used like that, and it makes a great feature.
Very jealous of such a great space.
Halfway!
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More faffage fitting boards around the door and some more wiring.
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I found a portrait my mother painted of my father while she was a student at the Edinburgh College of Art. It's got to be 50 years old. Had she not had three kids soon after I think she would have been rated. She won various travelling scholarships and had a couple of very promising exhibitions.
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I don't know much about art -- but I like that..
Fantastic floor!
I'm around the bend, straight cuts from here on in.
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Probably less than a quarter more to finish the first space.
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I'm liking the mix of surfaces and the way the light plays on each.
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Snow wasn't on my radar this afternoon. I had to rig up a tarp door and sweep out the drift.
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I think she would have been rated.
Aye, and not a bad gardener too!.
Greig, many of our visitors have never seen a garden as randomly planted as my mother's, when they hear she was a painter, they get it.
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Amazing garden, stunning Pete.
A handful of afternoons waiting for paint to dry and I have a floor.
Sorry for the crappy phone pics.
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I gave it a wipe with a floor cloth to lift off my lime covered footprints.
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Next job will be sorting out the power points and the stove.
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😀
I made a start on the floor in the other space. I need to sort out some better lighting to work under. It was fine when the sun was shining, but its hopeless when its overcast and raining.
I did a remaining board count and there may just be enough to finish the job.
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Where did you find that flooring Mr McM ?
I have been looking around for some recycled stuff to finish off a workshop floor.
Where did you find that flooring Mr McM ?
It was a lucky find. I got it from a timber salvage yard called Trojan in Dundee. Sadly it has since closed. I arrived at the same time as the complete floor was being unloaded from a truck. I think I paid about £300 for it and some 8x2s.
These guys are close to the Kincardine Bridge, they often have salvaged hardwood flooring in stock.
http://www.hargreavesreclaimedflooring.co.uk/
Looking absolutely superb - deserves some posh photos when it's done!
