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Building a New Wood Shop #4: Concrete Forms Removed

Blog entry by FJPetruso posted 111 days ago 724 reads 0 times favorited 15 comments Add to Favorites
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The cement contractors came back on Monday as promised & removed the forms. The concrete looks great. Notice that the “J” bolts in the top of the wall are installed toward the outside of the side & rear walls where the wall will be covered in vinyl siding. The “J” bolts in the front wall are installed toward the inside of the front wall. This allows me to have a ledge to lay the bricks on.

Form1

I’ll be bringing in some dirt to level out & to keep the drainage right around the shop.

Form2

This photo shows the “cut-out” for the double 36” doors. The doors will open outward to allow for more room in the shop. There will be a 6’ X4’ landing poured in front of the doors.

Form3

The Heating & Cooling System is on it’s way. I wanted to keep the heating & cooling system simple so I am using a window type air conditioning & heating unit. It’s a 220 volt Amana 18,000 btu heat pump type set-up. The specs say it’ll heat & cool a 1000 square foot area so it should handle a shop that’s just over half that size without running & running & running. And it should cool down or heat up the shop in a minimum of time. This will be necessary as I won’t be letting it run un-necessarly while I’m not using the shop. It will be installed into the sidewall where there aren’t any windows. I wanted to have it on hand so that when the stud wall is done I can install it before the contractor puts the siding on.
Amana 18,000 btu
This “LumberJock” hopes to see some lumber going up soon.

-- Frank, Florissant, Missouri


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trifern

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posted 111 days ago

Your shop is really coming along nicely. Thanks for the update.

-- My favorite piece is my last one, my best piece is my next one.

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GaryK

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posted 111 days ago

Looking good.

That AC/heat unit comes with a not so good filter. If you want to make it last, get a good filter and stick it to the face of the unit. That’s what I do and you would be amazaed just how much dust it collects.

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

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FJPetruso

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posted 111 days ago

See! THAT’S why I like LumberJocks! Good Advice! I’ll be sure to add another filter to the front of the unit. Thanks! Gary! I also plan on getting an air filtration system to attach to the ceiling. That should help too. I’m going to wire it into the lighting system so when the lights are on the filter is on… Always cleaning the air when I’m working.

-- Frank, Florissant, Missouri

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ND2ELK

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posted 111 days ago

Hi Frank

Your shop is coming along great! I put a filter in front of my AC like GaryK suggested. I was amazed at the dust it collected from just sweeping the floor one day.

God Bless
tom

-- Mc Bridge Cabinets, Iowa

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thetimberkid

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posted 111 days ago

Looking good!

Thanks for the post

Callum

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Patrick Jaromin

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posted 111 days ago

Thanks for the update…looks like you’re making progress.

-- Patrick, Chicago, IL www.TenonAndSpline.com

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Mark Shymanski

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posted 111 days ago

Looks real good, are you planning to have a lot of windows (for the natural light)?

-- ....next big purchase is wood for the next project, Mark

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jeanmarc

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posted 111 days ago

soon of great project of wood will be carried out in this workshop I wish you good luck and much photograph of your works on lumberjocks

-- jeanmarc manosque france

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sharad

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posted 111 days ago

Nice to see the progress of your workshop. I am sure you must have thought of further expansion of your wood working hobby.
Sharad

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Maddhatter

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posted 110 days ago

Looks good – bet you cant wait to sweep the floor??

-- Norm (AKA - The Maddhatter), Middletown DE

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ChicoWoodnut

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posted 110 days ago

Sweet deal! You are going to love that heating/cooling unit.

-- Scott - Chico California http://chicowoodnut.home.comcast.net

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FJPetruso

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posted 110 days ago

I’m putting a 4’ high X 8’ wide window in the front wall where my workbench will go. That window will face south. On the rear wall & to the side of the double doors I’m putting a 4’ high X 2-1/2’ wide window. I’ll probably put my carving bench & drafting table by this window.

Sweeping the floor of a new shop will be nice… for a while. And speaking of sweeping the floor… has anyone used one of those floor sweep adapters for your dust collector? How well do they work?

I got a real deal on some interior lighting. I’ll wait ‘til I have some photos to post before telling about that…

One of my hobbies is photography so more photos are to come.

-- Frank, Florissant, Missouri

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FJPetruso

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posted 107 days ago

WOW! Talk about FAST! I got online Sunday (yesterday) & used the tracking # for Old Dominion Freight Lines just to check on the progress of the shipping of my heat pump. I found to my suprise that it was already at the warehouse in St.Louis…. from ORDERING it from Austin, Texas on Thursday night to being delivered to St.Louis by TRUCK in LESS than 2 work days. Old Dominion does a great job! I picked it up myself at the warehouse today.

Amana Heat Pump

-- Frank, Florissant, Missouri

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ChicoWoodnut

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posted 107 days ago

Wow. thats exciting!

-- Scott - Chico California http://chicowoodnut.home.comcast.net

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FJPetruso

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posted 106 days ago

Yes, Good Service is so out of the ordinary these days it makes service like I got from Old Dominion & the seller very exciting. It seems that when other businesses offer free shipping they run out to the airplane, that the item was originally scheduled to be shipped on, take it off the plane & put it on Jed Clampett’s old rattle trap. That’s the kind of free shipping most sellers seem to be thinking their customers deserve. It really was a very pleasant suprise to get that good of service…..... or… Was I just lucky?

-- Frank, Florissant, Missouri

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