Well, sort of. Up until now, I've moved stuff around, talked about plans, cleaned up,
ripped out walls, talked more, bought stuff, talked more, moved stuff, cleaned up again,
moved stuff to storage, moved stuff to ebay, moved stuff to dumpster, moved stuff around,
cleaned up again... today the first new material was connected to new material to form walls
for a finished basement that might someday have a layout. It ain't much but - well hell yeah,
it's a major accomplishment. Especially because the next step(s) are to just continue on.
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This is it... one 8 foot section of framing. This is next to the garage stall and will be a narrow strip (inside framing will be 46" to house the staging tracks. At this point I'm thinking a two-level staging, 12-14 tracks on each level, and a heelix at the opposite end. The heelix will be part of staging, not part of the operational layout and will serve to access both levels of staging as well as a way to turn trains coming in or out - inbound trains can go into the heelix and then back into staging. That's what I came up with today anyway. I'm also thinking of putting a camera in staging, so that I can verify what is going on without having to physically go back there. Yeah, I just thought all this up today after putting up this little frame.
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The Hoosier Hacienda's lovely finishing work courtesy of Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, and Dr. Howard. This looks to be a 2x8 strip covered with some drywall and spackle, I just laid the wall in below it. The crappy ceiling will stay.
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Annette spotted this cool thing at Home Depot. I originally went there looking for a smaller compressor to replace the 12-gallon noisemaker I have upstairs in the train shop. I didn't find anything I liked, but she found this thing and actually I got an entire set. It's a cordless, very lightweight circular saw. It's just barely large enough to cut a 2x4, but that's all it needs to do. I bought a DeWalt circular saw several years ago, when my plans for the basement became somewhat derailed... buying a vintage car kind of contributed to that. I never took it out of the box until tonight. It's quite a beast, and I'm sure I'll get some use out of it but this little cordless one is way too cool and will get most of the work I think.
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Four Ryobi thingies in one box for $150 - all cordless. The circular saw, a light, a drill (yeah, this is my 5th cordless drill), and another thing handy to have in a cordless: a reciprocating saw. I won't be getting rid of my Milwaukee, but this thing will probably get used 60% of the time in its place.
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Lastly I got this nailer... 200 bucks for a Hitachi. The nails cost a bit more than your basic 3" carpenter nails but it more than makes up for it. I know you're only looking at one section of framing, and we took a couple hours all in all carefully measuring things and I had to actually read the instructions (after tearing out the 80% of it not in English) for the air powered nail gun since I've never used one before, and it does have the capacity to injure or kill. I was running it at about 75 PSI, and I think maybe I could crank it a little higher - it drove most of the nails just fine but a couple times it bounced and left them sticking out a bit, so I had to finish them off with an old fashioned hammer (a 20-ounce Craftsman I bought back in 1985 when I did my first framing ever). I also got a concrete nailer (not shown)... 22 caliber. Probably won't be driving that many concrete fasteners, but back in 85 I beat those wedge nails in by hand with the aforementioned hammer, sparks flying. I won't be doing that this time. Anyway... for a change I bought some new tools AND used them the same day.
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Day two - Feb 13, 2011 - things moving along faster. In about 2 1/4 hours, we measured, cut, assembled and put up three more framing sections. The concrete wall is now framed in. Have not done the concrete nails at the bottom yet, we'll wait to make sure everything is cool before we do that since they are pretty difficult to remove.
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Looking the other way. The crappy looking wall there is structural - sort of. Builder had to reinforce the back wall with a 6' tee, and this is it. It's actually a foot thick, solid concrete with some crappy framing and drywall splatter over it. I'll just butt against it, clean it up and paint it. This will be staging anyway, no need for beauty.
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You can see how much this concrete tee leans, although it may be just the overlay. The second vertical stud from the left is more or less plumb, compare to the form line in the back concrete wall. The leftmost stud is leaning in 3/4 of an inch - I'm glad I measured both the top and bottom before putting this last section together. This all falls under "who cares" but indicative of how the house was built in general.
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The Galaxie gets to be a table once again. That will change in another month or so. Oh yeah, one of these days we're going to build a new 390 for it, or probably rebuild the one that's in it. But I go with wherever the momentum is and right now it's framing.
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Time passes quickly... one gallbladder surgery, two new vehicles, and the two rainiest months in Cincinnati history
and it's Memorial day weekend. 5/30/11 - it was obvious we needed a good vapor barrier, so we pulled the wall framing
down temporarily in order to give the wall and floor below the studs two coats of Dry-Loc. It's sort of like drywall
mud only ever so slightly thinner. It's latex so it won't kill you to breathe the fumes, but that nice big fan I bought
3 years ago just for venting the garage came in very handy.
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This is what it looked like with only one coat down. The first coat is the hardest though, working it into all the dimples
and pores. Putting it on with a roller is slightly faster than putting it on with a butter knife.
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On 6/6 a week later, this is what it looked like with the second coat in place. We had one more heavy rain though, and
it did ooze just a little so I put even more down. I just have to face the fact that this wall will bleed on occasion,
and prepare to deal with it. Basically it means no carpet, but this will be staging - having a rubber floor is ok.
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Sunday 6/12, we put some heavy plastic barrier on the framing sections and then wrapped it around the bottom and partway
up the inside.
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Putting the wall back up was easy since we knew it fit. It has been humid but not enough to make the wood swell THAT much!
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And then rolling the first of two coats of Dry-Loc onto the floor, just between where the walls of the staging area
will go. The inside of staging after drywall will be 45" wide. Which is enough for 24" wide staging shelves and one
fat guy, IF he doesn't get any fatter.
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This gives a pretty good idea of the overall width. The partition wall will be parallel and at the edge of the painted
floor, dividing off from the garage.
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Crowded in the driveway of the HH!
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