Building my studio from the ground up.
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- Welcome to my studio warming!
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- Grouting makes a mess
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- I love the floor!
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- The floor is in and ready for grout
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- This is a big job!
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- The walls were painted, now Jerry is installing the saltillo tile floor
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- Running all the other electrical
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- Now to insulate the inside and run wires for surround sound
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- The building is complete!
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- Now for the stucco
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- It’s all browned out
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- Brown coating begins
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- All roofed and ready for the brown coat
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- Half the roof is tiled and the chicken wire is on and ready for the stucco
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- Time to install roof tile
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- Roofing paper is installed
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- Sheathing is on and roof boards are in place
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- All the beams are in place and exterior sheathing is being installed
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- The studs are up, the center beam is in, now the rest of the beams can come in
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- SUCCESS!! Everyone is happy.
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- Let’s make a plan how we’re going to do this
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- Now to set it upright and drop it in
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- REALLY CLOSE…
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- Only a foot left to go…
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- Three fourths of the way there…
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- The building starts to sway a bit, the women help stabilize it
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- It’s over half way there…
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- Keep pushing!
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- Everybody push together now!
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- OK, the hard part is done, now to shove it into place.
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- Seven strong men work together to put it in place
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- The beam was carried from the top of the property down to the studio
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- The 500 pound center beam was carried down for installation.
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- A portion of the fence was removed so the center beam could be brought in
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- It was time for Jerry to start putting up stud walls
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- Now all the cement work is done
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- Concrete was installed between the house and the studio
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- We hired these 3 guys to do the cement work between the house and the studio
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- We got two concrete block walls in place
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- Here’s the newly poured footings and floor to the studio
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- Jerry got the ground ready to pour the concrete footings for the studio
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- Fast forward, we rented a front end loader and finished the digging, then prepared for the foundation
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- After 3 days of digging, we weren’t making much progress, digging in decomposed granite killed me!
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- With the iceplant removed, you can see the hill that needs to be dug away
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- Pam is showing where the site is, we cut away the iceplant and started cleanup
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- A view from above of the “footprint” of the studio
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- A view of the studio site from the street level
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- Here is the site for the new studio
