Morning all,

Another regular work day for me. Yesterday my manager informed us we should all take a couple days off by the end of September as 'comp' time for all the extra hours we put in during June/July/August.  So that was nice.

Drywall finishing crew made another pass. I think all they have left is to sand.  And then the priming/painting will be done.

Doug

Quote from: Vietnam Seabee on September 12, 2024, 08:19:13 AMDoug...your neighbor probably says a similar thing about a guy who fills his basement up with model trains
;-))
terry

What happens in the basement stays in the basement.   

Morning all,

Yet another regular work day here.  Drywall guys have not been here since Monday. Hopefully they show up and complete the drywall finishing by the end of the week.

My neighbors tiered raised garden bed project continues.  They've (contractor) been working on it since the beginning of April. I imagine it's costing them a lot $$$$.

Doug

Mornin' all,

Another regular work day for me. My dad headed back to PA around 5:30 AM (trying to avoid Knoxville traffic).

This morning I had the first sustained power outage since I moved into the house in mid May.  It lasted for about 2 hours.  Since the local electric utility does not appear to have an outage reporting phone number nor a website link I decided to go out and see if I could tell how large an area was affected. It was a decent sized area (200+ homes?).  It was caused by a car that knocked down a utility pole so they shut down power to the whole area. I may have to revisit/reprioritize my power outage plan. I have a couple inverter generators (2000 and 3500 watt) but I have not yet installed a whole house transfer switch for generator input. I guess I will get going with that soon.

The drywall guys were back out yesterday afternoon. I would guess the finish guys have one more session before it's ready for a very light texture and then painting.

Doug

Mornin'

Regular work day.  Hopefully the drywall guys come back today for round 2 of sanding/mudding.  Should be a beautiful sunny day. Low of 52, high of 80.

Doug

Mornin' all,

This morning my dad and I installed the cat door I had bought before the house was complete in the laundry room door. This was done in order to keep my new puppy out of the laundry room where the cat box lives.  In the last week Otis has decided the cat box is a wonderful pantry stocked with poopsicles.   

Apparently Otis is designed specifically to penetrate this sort of barrier because it took him about 1.3 seconds to figure out he could squeeze right thru the cat door.

Cat door 0 - Otis 1

Good morning,

My dad and his companion are visiting for several days so I took the day off from 'real' work.  Beautiful day weather wise so I will probably go collect some rocks in the yard.

Drywall finishing crew is here today.  They work FAST.  Only been here for 1.5 hours and they have made substantial progress.

Doug

Photo of dad on the back deck drinking coffee waiting for the sunrise.

Good morning,

Regular work day for me. My father and his companion are supposed to arrive today for a 4 day visit from Pennsylvania (Womelsdorf). He is bringing his two doggies so Otis will have a lot of playtime.

The drywall hangers finished yesterday and they are supposed to start on the finishing (smoooth) today or tomorrow.

Doug

The drywall guys finished hanging the drywall in the train layout room in about 2.5 hours.

Next they will bang out the basement garage space (just 2 walls) and then start on finishing the drywall.

Good morning,

It's a regular work day for me.  The temp and humidity has dropped so it's rather pleasant outside.

The drywall hanging crew showed up this morning. Hopefully they get the drywall hung and finished without issues.

Today's 1:1 train note:  The NS mainline between Knoxville and Chattanooga passes about 1.3 miles away from my house and it has an at grade crossing on the road I use 80% of the time to get to/from my house.  I get to wait in the car for trains passing by maybe once or twice per week.  Twice now I have had trains come to a complete stop and block the crossing.  If there is no one behind me I can backup and turn around to take a different/backtrack route around the train.  That got me to wondering if there are any DOT rules about trains blocking crossings.  Apparently there are no rules about this. That's all. 

Doug

Mornin' All,

Woke up to a cooler morning today.  Looks like clouds and some rain this week and lower temps. Hurray.

I'm going to try and find out when the drywall hanging/finish crew is going to get started.

Otherwise a regular/short work week.

Doug

Got my nut/bolt gauge panel mounted yesterday.

Quote from: deemery on September 02, 2024, 12:16:22 PM

Quote from: Onewolf on September 02, 2024, 10:20:10 AMMorning all,

My puppy Otis's whining woke me up around 3:20am so I got up and let him out.  And then I couldn't get back to sleep so I have been putzing around all morning.

Nothing major planned for Labor Day.  I might get enough motivation to install an outlet in the family room floor. One advantage of having an 'open' basement ceiling.

Doug

What kind of dog is Otis?  Love those big ears!

dave

Otis is a Pembroke Welsh Corgi

Morning all,

My puppy Otis's whining woke me up around 3:20am so I got up and let him out.  And then I couldn't get back to sleep so I have been putzing around all morning.

Nothing major planned for Labor Day.  I might get enough motivation to install an outlet in the family room floor. One advantage of having an 'open' basement ceiling.

Doug

Quote from: ACL1504 on September 01, 2024, 08:53:27 AMDoug,

I have no experience with the roadbed you mentioned above. I've always used Midwest cork roadbed and have had no issues with excessive sound.

Tom

Yes, Midwest cork is an option that I have used in the past.  I will have about 600 ft of mainline roadbed so if I can save some money I figure I should at least investigate. 

Edit: 600 ft of mainline roadbed. My original 1200 ft was 'there and back'. 

Good morning,

I did a few house chores yesterday (including roughing in a NEMA 6-20 outlet in my basement garage for use by my Grizzly dust collector).  I also did real work for several hours as we are in release crunch mode.  Looks like I will be doing real work today as well as there is an issue/defect and the real SMEs for this area are 'out'.

Question: On my old layout I used Woodland Scenic foam road bed where I needed raised road bed. While it installed very easily/quickly, I found it to be too soft for my taste.  I was wondering if any of you have used the "sound foam roadbed" that is sold on EBay?  Like this:  https://www.ebay.com/itm/202462228147?_nkw=ho+scale&itmmeta=01J6PPRVKYF8861XDHZGCQK4EN&hash=item2f23b06eb3:g:2DsAAMXQTgZQ~m4X

If looks like maybe a good option?

Doug