All car projects on hold for summer 2014

[BBShark]

You need to call Ghostbusters!

Surprised they didn't set the place on fire.

 

[mrvette]

I live in a older largely retired community, lots of ex Navy because of the base next door, I am about 1/2 way up a ~60' hill from the swamp at the bottom, when shopping, for a house, I noted all the drainage problems in Florida, especially any flat land...

So my street turns left at top of the hill, and the house on outside of the bend was owned by a Cadillac mechanic who had his own shop, but as years went by, his wife dragged him into drugs.....several SWAT team raids on the place.....he finally lost it to the bank, and what a shame lost the nice open yellow roadster/hotrod they had too.....house got flipped a couple times, new owners are cool.....

This burb certainly don't miss those cars constantly driving by looking to buy when the red light was on in front.....:shocking::bomb:

 

[rtj]

Sorry to hear about that, hopefully they stayed out of your shop. I had a monitored alarm in FL, and have one here. Well Worth the monthly cost.

 

[JPhil]

You need to call Ghostbusters!

Depends on your beliefs about a number of things, but that may be a genuine concern. It would be for me.

 

[mrvette]

You need to call Ghostbusters!

Depends on your beliefs about a number of things, but that may be a genuine concern. It would be for me.

When I looked at the inside of that house where the murder/suicide took place, according to the R/E agent there is no requirement to say about the crimes done there....but surely with that Navy Chief living 2 doors away, the word WILL be spread.....WTF, he told ME the story when I was just walking around by myself, but to get IN the joint I set up with the agent.....

:skeptic:

 

[69427]

Fortunately this happened 1) while I was not there and 2) during the remodeling ... Except for some tools and a fridge full of beer there was nothing in the house ....
Cleanup is complete, now back to fixing drywall, paint a second time and put tiles on the floor ....

Took a while to get rid of the teargas smell ....

Glad you're back to making progress on the house, but I'm still interested in pictures of the garage/shop and your interior plans for that. :thumbs:

 

[MYBAD79]

Glad you're back to making progress on the house, but I'm still interested in pictures of the garage/shop and your interior plans for that. :thumbs:

Painted the trusses white, took 30 gallons of white primer ...... It made a huge difference though, it does not look like a dungeon anymore...... :lol:

 

[denpo]

What's the purple-ish car a the right of the picture??
Looks like a Golf cabrio, but not quiet sure, is that yet another project?
With such a garage you'll be the east coast Jay Leno in no time :amused:

 

[SRountree]

Very nice garage. Congrat...

 

[MYBAD79]

Very nice garage. Congrat...

Thanks

 

[MYBAD79]

What's the purple-ish car a the right of the picture??
Looks like a Golf cabrio, but not quiet sure, is that yet another project?
With such a garage you'll be the east coast Jay Leno in no time :amused:

Golf/Rabbit convertible.... Got it cheap, it's a parts car.... Going to cut the front off and graft the round headlight front on the other Golf ..... Also the convertible has a nicer dashboard..... I also need to swap the trunk floor and the passenger side rear lower quarter panel....

 

[Sam Cogley]

Holy ****, that's a big garage.

Also, one of the previous owners of this house committed suicide in the basement. No obvious signs of location that I've found. He certainly didn't hang himself, the ceiling is too low - lower than modern code, but not quite low enough that I'm hitting my head on the ceiling.

 

[mrvette]

Holy ****, that's a big garage.

Also, one of the previous owners of this house committed suicide in the basement. No obvious signs of location that I've found. He certainly didn't hang himself, the ceiling is too low - lower than modern code, but not quite low enough that I'm hitting my head on the ceiling.

I used to have a brick cape in Maryland, 600' per floor, and I wanted to rent the basement, but the county inspector said ceiling was 2" less than 7' min, I rented it out anyway....hell with them....:lol:

 

[69427]

Glad you're back to making progress on the house, but I'm still interested in pictures of the garage/shop and your interior plans for that. :thumbs:

Painted the trusses white, took 30 gallons of white primer ...... It made a huge difference though, it does not look like a dungeon anymore...... :lol:

Love all that openness and square footage. That's going to be a great shop setup. Keep us updated.

 

[MYBAD79]

They put a bullet thru their heads in the laundry room..... Well, in all honesty I believe that they would have shot me if I was home at the time, they would have shot friends who checked on the house for me while I was gone,,,,,, I don't feel much sympathy.... In their honor I think I want to place a urinal in that corner of my laundry room......

Other than that yes, it's a great garage/shop

 

[mrvette]

They put a bullet thru their heads in the laundry room..... Well, in all honesty I believe that they would have shot me if I was home at the time, they would have shot friends who checked on the house for me while I was gone,,,,,, I don't feel much sympathy.... In their honor I think I want to place a urinal in that corner of my laundry room......

Other than that yes, it's a great garage/shop

:crap::beer::beer::evil:

 

[Sam Cogley]

Holy ****, that's a big garage.

Also, one of the previous owners of this house committed suicide in the basement. No obvious signs of location that I've found. He certainly didn't hang himself, the ceiling is too low - lower than modern code, but not quite low enough that I'm hitting my head on the ceiling.

I used to have a brick cape in Maryland, 600' per floor, and I wanted to rent the basement, but the county inspector said ceiling was 2" less than 7' min, I rented it out anyway....hell with them....:lol:

Mine's around 6' 7" - it's a bit claustrophobic.

 

[mrvette]

Holy ****, that's a big garage.

Also, one of the previous owners of this house committed suicide in the basement. No obvious signs of location that I've found. He certainly didn't hang himself, the ceiling is too low - lower than modern code, but not quite low enough that I'm hitting my head on the ceiling.

I used to have a brick cape in Maryland, 600' per floor, and I wanted to rent the basement, but the county inspector said ceiling was 2" less than 7' min, I rented it out anyway....hell with them....:lol:

Mine's around 6' 7" - it's a bit claustrophobic.

OUCH!!! I"m 6'5" or used to be....age 71, arthritis/spine **** shrinking so yes.....:crutches::suicide:

 

[Sam Cogley]

I'm 6'2" - it's just high enough to keep me from completely losing my mind down there.

 

[mrvette]

I'm 6'2" - it's just high enough to keep me from completely losing my mind down there.

****!!! I hit my head SO many times my mind is just a memory......:surrender:

 

[MYBAD79]

Making some progress on the flooring

 

[mrvette]

Looks slick as a dollar, trick is, will it be slippery if it's wet?? say walking in from rain???/etc??

some of those tile floors are an issue, especially for older folks.....

guys posting in many threads on CF OT about that ****, now my slick kitchen tiles never been an issue, but well.....:surrender::smash:

 

[MYBAD79]

Living room is almost done .....







Kitchen is next ....

Friggin patio door just cost me $1600 ....

Damn and I thought a C3 is an expensive hobby .... Lol

 

[SRountree]

Ha ha ha, yea the c3 is mild compared to that. Your doing a really good job and its looking great!

 

[mrvette]

I was working remodeling for a good while down here, and so the 14x22 room addition foundation/slab was done by a fellow that does that work, he pulled ticket on it....3 grand....after another 5 grand by ME, it was finished with 5' of kitchen counter space, rented it and master BR/Bath for some years....350/month.....recovered most of the investment.....

One of my fellow guys doing remodeling called for a hand on removing a glass atrium from back of some customer's house....looks like a Wendy's burger joint room glass ceiling and curved on the end corner.....so we took it out for the customer, put it in our trucks, and dropped it off here, 800 bux later I had 6 yards of concrete pumped in the back yard....capping and extending the old porch slab off the kitchen sliding door and making a nice large slab off the addition entrance .....the old sliding door was single glass on insulated junk, got TWO sliding door setups from a customer who wanted french door instead at his house....gave one set to Bob across the street, tiled the floor in the atrium.....300 bux on that little touch....

a year or so later wife and I decided to remodel the kitchen, I made my own cabinets....she ordered the maple doors off the .net 950 bux....total project 3500 bux......I made the formica counter tops.....moved a bearing utility wall into the garage about 6' worth, bringing the washer/dryer into the kitchen in their own hutch, using outside/garage air for the dryer air.....close the doors nice and snug.....kicked the water heater out to the adjacent shed....put an extra fiberglass/paper wrap on it....

Hall bath was only a 5' tub, we decided to expand it, knocking out a stupid 18" wide linen closet, and having a 6' L, 42" wide hot tub.....hall closet lost a foot of depth, so what.....3500 bux later that was all accomplished with nice tile all over.....and new appliances/plumbing....

Front door was a POS OEM hollow core junk one good kick and open it would be....got lucky, neighbor around the corner set a nice solid Honduran Mahogany front door to the curb....some idiot got at the hinge side of it, and butchered hell out of it....so to the cab shop bench saw, ten bux later it was ripped nice and true....went to a wood workers supply house 80 bux later a nice piece was pegged/glued to the door.....stripped it down, put on tons of urethane.....new jamb and trim door installed, took some left over wood and made a nice plastic inserts 'storm door' so this door is the best in the whole damn burb at this point.....:bounce: I put crown molding around the LR/Hallway.....

All the windows in the house replaced huge 5' tall 6' wide front window 350 bux, all the rest were 100 each.....back then....all double thermal plastic windows, no wood, great insulation....gone is the single pane aluminum leaky crap......

:twitch:

 

[69427]

Living room is almost done .....







Kitchen is next ....

Friggin patio door just cost me $1600 ....

Damn and I thought a C3 is an expensive hobby .... Lol

Looking good, Karsten. I admire your discipline in being able to work on all the remodeling stuff instead of having fun with the cars out in the garage. :thumbs:

 

[phantomjock]

Hey - Karsten. Nice work - looking real good. But I gotta' ask; Is it raining outside?
Weather has slowed my body work up here in the 'Panhandle - and looks like the next week will all be indoors stuff too.
Fortunately, I can get a some days reprieve to work on the chassis/brakes.

Cheers - Jim

 

[MYBAD79]

Looking good, Karsten. I admire your discipline in being able to work on all the remodeling stuff instead of having fun with the cars out in the garage. :thumbs:

Wellll....... Having to pay two mortgages kinda puts the pressure on..... I really need to get this done and my house sold..... Then it is back to garage fun !!!!!

 

[MYBAD79]

Hey - Karsten. Nice work - looking real good. But I gotta' ask; Is it raining outside?
Weather has slowed my body work up here in the 'Panhandle - and looks like the next week will all be indoors stuff too.
Fortunately, I can get a some days reprieve to work on the chassis/brakes.

Cheers - Jim

Was raining pretty much very day in the afternoon..... Normal Florida summer.... Lol

 

[mrvette]

Hey - Karsten. Nice work - looking real good. But I gotta' ask; Is it raining outside?
Weather has slowed my body work up here in the 'Panhandle - and looks like the next week will all be indoors stuff too.
Fortunately, I can get a some days reprieve to work on the chassis/brakes.

Cheers - Jim

Was raining pretty much very day in the afternoon..... Normal Florida summer.... Lol

Been pretty dry around here, strange that you all getting most of the rain....here I am directly east, and north of Karsten, and I get a few storms, but thankfully no winds....SO FAR......nervous as a whore in church over any winds.....3 trees stand as a direct threat to my house......

:gurney: