After the studio made it's journey to our homestead, we let out a sigh of relief "yes, we made it!". With every single project so far we have encountered delays. This was no different. The studio sat sad and neglected for several days on a trailer. During this time my brain came up with images of someone hooking up the trailer and taking off with my hard work. This didn't happen:) Instead my number one fan, aka momma, came for a visit. We took the trip out to the homestead, just to see it on the trailer, and surprise surprise the studio stood proudly on some bricks.
Maybe some of the studio magic came from the posts, because without them on those cheap bricks it looks kind of bleak. Especially because our magic wall of windows still had boards across it.
Oh the horror of damage control / repair. All the random boards that were used as "support" had to be removed, which left deep screw holes. Our floors are insulated and the insulation barrier, just a sheet of construction plastic, was damaged; the exposed insulation was damage as well.
I'm not the type to speak negatively about someone else....... I will just say that this was not the work of me or my Mr.
We did have to remove the trim pieces to put in the new post, but before we could do that we had to dig holes for every post (6 in total).
This project was mind blowing for me. We used a heavy duty jack and literally lifted the studio to put the post underneath. Crazy, right? We had to rig things a bit because the jack couldn't lift it up high enough so we added post remnant and bricks, haha a little getto but it worked so I guess that's all that mattered.
The jack was supporting the weight of an entire side of the studio so we also had to place boards under the jack to keep it from sinking.
We restablized the studio using the bricks again. That way the posts wouldn't be under any pressure and filled the holes holding the posts with concrete. Then, we danced the dance of people that just completed something we had never even attempted before. After our dance festival we went home and left the concrete to cure for 24 hours.
Look at all that mess. That's a sure fire sign that something's getting done:) we still have a million things to do but one by one we are taking these tasks down.
A quick note on recylcing aluminum, for those die hard Mountain Dew fans
- The amount of energy saved differs by material, but almost all recycling processes achieve significant energy savings compared to virgin material production. For example, recycling of aluminum cans saves 95 percent of the energy required to make the same amount of aluminum from virgin sources. For each can recycled, this is enough energy to run a television or computer for three hours.
- Sourced from EPA.gov
Till next time y'all keep it clean, green, and classy.
-Shalimar
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